Falling pics 11/25/09

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Whats the purpose on the block of wood in the facecut?

To encourage the tree to kick the opposite direction of where you placed the pie piece. The face would close on that piece first, and roll the other way. Make sense?
 
I was not too impressed with his axe...especially for being in that big a wood!

Here is what I carry...6 pound council with 36" handle:

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You can move some wedges in some big wood with one of those...they really move in smaller timber :)

Ya buddy, right there with ya, except I don't have the "rib breaker" handle lol. Kinda like the saw, if it's too much to wield, then you be in the wrong business :cry:

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Another One

A limby tree. For some reason, I was expecting him to vault off at the end, but he didn't. Probably a good thing too.

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That video is a great example of why you carry a falling axe to the woods and not a sissy hammer!

I was not too impressed with his axe...especially for being in that big a wood!

Here is what I carry...6 pound council with 36" handle:

You can move some wedges in some big wood with one of those...they really move in smaller timber :)

Remember to keep things in perspective , your truck is a few yards from the workplace , he's in deep carrying all his service equipment on his harness so a 2 or 3lbs axe with a 26" handle would be the same as the axe that I carry all day .
When I'm doing single large trees my 8lb splitting axe with a 36" straight handle is my wedge driver of choice similar to yours .

:cheers:
 
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I read he cut for 40 years. Pretty sure he's retired. That's a hell of a time to be on a saw and make stumps.

There is few guys like that in the PNW, in nooks and crannys here and there, quietly living out the rest of their days. I meet one every once in a while then find out who they were, or that they worked with someone in my family. Yes, a long career, no doubt. So many deserve credit that are never pictured or mentioned here. I have known some of them who never claimed any of the glory to themseleves, but gave it back to the good Lord...acknowlegding the gift they possesed, and how fast it can be taken away.
 
Remember to keep things in perspective , your truck is a few yards from the workplace , he's in deep carrying all his service equipment on his harness so a 2 or 3lbs axe with a 26" handle would be the same as the axe that I carry all day .
When I'm doing single large trees my 8lb splitting axe with a 36" straight handle is my wedge driver of choice similar to yours .

:cheers:


I do speak from experience...as I have only been doing residential tree work since 2006. I spent 13 years trampin around from the swamps of Florida to Southeast AK, most time spent on Pacific Coast, falling timber for a Helicopter, so usually was a fair distance from the pickup, but I never went there without my fallin axe....packed one for miles and miles.... :)
 
Orange painted handles are popular around here.

The colors in this photo are bad. The woods were dark so I had to tweak the photo so things would show up. I think the dad, swinging the axe, got bored so wandered down to help swing the tree around. It wanted to hit the road, they wanted it towards the skid trail. It went in the correct direction. Small trees can be a pain in a thinning.

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Another faller went for the natural look handle, but had tape on it at inch? increments. I packed it for him while he was cutting hazard trees along a road. It wasn't light.
 
Orange painted handles are popular around here.

The colors in this photo are bad. The woods were dark so I had to tweak the photo so things would show up. I think the dad, swinging the axe, got bored so wandered down to help swing the tree around. It wanted to hit the road, they wanted it towards the skid trail. It went in the correct direction. Small trees can be a pain in a thinning.

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Another faller went for the natural look handle, but had tape on it at inch? increments. I packed it for him while he was cutting hazard trees along a road. It wasn't light.

I used to always paint my handles...just for that stray tree once in a while that tops out on top of your axe...it is a lot easier to see a neon orange handle under a bunch of brush...then again, it is a lot easier to see it so that you don't gun a tree at it too :)
 
I wish everything I carry around in the woods was painted either bright orange, fluorescent Pink, or bright turquoise/teal. When something falls out, it can take a while to find it! Like staple hammers. In blowdown. On steep ground. :cry:

After crawling through a patch of blowdown, then reaching for something and finding it isn't there, it is hard to keep up spirits when you have to backtrack and hunt for something that is GRAY. Messes with productiveness and morale!

Ooops, back to falling. Except you can't fall here unless the staple hammer is fastening those boundary tags to trees.
 

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