Any downside to a block-out face cut for control?

[Gologit]

Randy and Bob have been in the game so long they both started out working in Paul Bunyan's kitchen flipping pancakes with a snow shovel and feeding Babe grain out of a steam shovel :msp_biggrin:

Yup...we've been around so many years that we remember when the Sierra Nevada Mountains were only three feet high.

 

[s219]

success

Well, I brought down the poplar yesterday, and it went great. I ended up cutting the stump a higher than normal, since the bottom of the tree was a little crooked and I wanted the block face cut to be above that.

I made the face cut, and the block popped right out with one hit from the axe (gotta love poplar). My only flaw was leaving the hinge too thick -- after tapping in all of my wedges, I had to bore back in and remove a little more hinge before the tree went over. So that cost me a $5 wedge and sprayed some orange chips, but no big deal.

Once the back cut was right, the tree went over smooth as silk and very slow, and landed right where I wanted. There was a lot of groaning from the hinge fibers that I haven't heard with a regular wedge face.

Thanks to all that gave input.

 

[Gologit]

Well, I brought down the poplar yesterday, and it went great. I ended up cutting the stump a higher than normal, since the bottom of the tree was a little crooked and I wanted the block face cut to be above that.

I made the face cut, and the block popped right out with one hit from the axe (gotta love poplar). My only flaw was leaving the hinge too thick -- after tapping in all of my wedges, I had to bore back in and remove a little more hinge before the tree went over. So that cost me a $5 wedge and sprayed some orange chips, but no big deal.

Once the back cut was right, the tree went over smooth as silk and very slow, and landed right where I wanted. There was a lot of groaning from the hinge fibers that I haven't heard with a regular wedge face.

Thanks to all that gave input.

 

[slowp]

Thanks for a follow up. So many don't let us know what happened.

 

[s219]

Thanks for a follow up. So many don't let us know what happened.

They must not survive to come back and tell their story!

 

[madhatte]

There was a lot of groaning from the hinge fibers that I haven't heard with a regular wedge face.

Groaning just means the hinge is doing its job. Props!