so by the time you buck up 10 cords in a day, at one point or the other you probably had a slightly dull chain.
dogs let you keep going until the chain is really dull.
if you stick a 28 inch bar into a 8 inch spruce, she wants to feed HARD down into the log. Real world says you stand there and keep the chain out.
now take that same exact setup and move over to a 26 inch doug fir, and by halfway through the log the engine isn't being loaded and the chain is just taking little ittybitty pieces. put the dogs to her.
so you are cutting a 20 inch log laying on the ground, and you are down on your knees. it has been a long day, and you are tired, and not paying total attention, but you have the dogs set and both hands on the saw.
the tip hits a log on the far side, and the saw jumps. with the dogs, it jumps about 2 inches.
i've been cutting a lot of dry piss fir and dry spruce. i'm running an 8 tooth driver on my 7900, and rakers are at .035, and i'm getting plenty of big chips.
what can i do to get my chain to feed better into the big stuff without getting scary stupid on the little stuff?