Timberhauler
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Yep...I have always used the handlebar.The 200t doesn't have a gunning sight so when you want to precisely lay a top the handlebar is your only sight.
Possible dumb question on "Felling Marks"
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Yep...I have always used the handlebar.The 200t doesn't have a gunning sight so when you want to precisely lay a top the handlebar is your only sight.
Learn to use em amaze your friends when you drop a tree on a marker you put out.
Ontario_Logger
ArboristSite Member
i use mine felling lines all the time, im in a bush right now doing selective cutting, always have to make sure the tree lands on its spot or its hung up or damge surrounding trees. its a good habit to use them 
MR4WD
ArboristSite Guru
Dropped a 140' spruce in my backyard and the very tip of the tree landed within 6" of a hat I put out before I dropped it. Totally blew my wife's mind
Told her I needed a bigger saw in order to make it land perfectly. 3120 should be here tomorrow :greenchainsaw:
Dropped a 140' spruce in my backyard and the very tip of the tree landed within 6" of a hat I put out before I dropped it. Totally blew my wife's mind
Told her I needed a bigger saw in order to make it land perfectly. 3120 should be here tomorrow :greenchainsaw:
Can I have your wife call my wife. On second though never mind, she still doesn't know about the 090.
Burvol
Bullbuck
Kinda like clean your air filter and sharpen your chain before you worry about the laundry list of mods to "go faster".
Axe Men has made this website even worse
GASoline71
Mr. Nice Guy
Kinda like clean your air filter and sharpen your chain before you worry about the laundry list of mods to "go faster".
Axe Men has made this website even worse
I couldn't agree more... there are more "fast saws" in the hands of people that have no business using them than I could have ever dreamed.
Learn the saw... the techniques... the tree... the lay... the land. Respect them all... they will respect you.
Havin' a super-cool "fast" and loud saw to impress your neigbors is just a tool for dismemberment... unless you understand how much power it actually has.
...nevermind... Sometimes I wonder why I even speak up. :censored:
Gary
You speak up because you have something worth saying...whether people like it or not. You, and Burvol, and several others, are often the only actual voices of experience and reality on here. Keep it up.
And get to work...!
MCW
Somebody's talking crap here & it ain't the tree!
Its a bit like a young kid with a 1000HP turboed V8 doing wheelies up the street to impress the onlookers, until he takes out a light pole and sprays himself all over the road
GASoline71
Mr. Nice Guy
You speak up because you have something worth saying...whether people like it or not. You, and Burvol, and several others, are often the only actual voices of experience and reality on here. Keep it up.
And get to work...!
Work? What's that?
Thanks Bob...
Gary
And yourself too. I practice on the baby alders.
I'm never in a hurry and I usually back off and look at the bar form both sides to make sure I'm in the direction I want. If I need to hit a hat, I'll get somebody who knows what they are doing. Never knew about the sights.
I seem to have a harder time knowing when the bar is level. Should have put a bubble on it somewhere.
I seem to have a harder time knowing when the bar is level. Should have put a bubble on it somewhere.
alderman
Addicted to ArboristSite
Hitting the mark
When I first started clearing the place I had one left to take out. I'd left my gas can across a little swale. Figuring I'd miss it, I went ahead with the cut and dropped the tree with the tip just catching the can and splitting it up the middle.
I cut quite a bit of firewood and I still don't feel comfortable falling trees, even the small stuff. I'm not too proud to get hold of a logger friend if it's not a pretty straight forward cut.
I think falling timber accurately must be an art that is slowly learned, and not very forgiving.
When I first started clearing the place I had one left to take out. I'd left my gas can across a little swale. Figuring I'd miss it, I went ahead with the cut and dropped the tree with the tip just catching the can and splitting it up the middle.
I cut quite a bit of firewood and I still don't feel comfortable falling trees, even the small stuff. I'm not too proud to get hold of a logger friend if it's not a pretty straight forward cut.
I think falling timber accurately must be an art that is slowly learned, and not very forgiving.
tek9tim
ArboristSite Guru
You ain't wrong. And never hesitate to speak up. If I had rep for you, I'd give it twice.
40 years experience don't mean a thing if you never learned the right way to fall trees in the first place. (And I'll bet some very large money that the 40 years in question was never in any sort of a professional setting) Like the bus driver used to say, "Sit down and shut up".
I agree but theres no telling anyone around here that.
Hell I only have a couple a years under my belt and i guarantee that I got a LOT to learn. but i also bet that i could school some of the so called experts here.
A fast shnazzy saw(or 8 of them) and all the latest & greatest equipment and crap doesn't make the man......
Hell I only have a couple a years under my belt and i guarantee that I got a LOT to learn. but i also bet that i could school some of the so called experts here.
A fast shnazzy saw(or 8 of them) and all the latest & greatest equipment and crap doesn't make the man......
You speak up because you have something worth saying...whether people like it or not. You, and Burvol, and several others, are often the only actual voices of experience and reality on here. Keep it up.
And get to work...!
:agree2: +10. Now about the "get to work"...I'll leave that alone cause I's got to GET TO WORK myself
.Kevin
lesson learned !
Never knew about the "sights".Should be doing some pasture clearing tomorrow night ,can't wait to try it out.I've learned a LOT from you guys.Dad had taught me to use the old 45* back cut.Still catch myself wanting to do it .Old habits.Never heard of hinge wood till I got here.I've cut for alot of years ,mostly incorrectly I find out!
Once again thanks guys for the education!
Russ
Never knew about the "sights".Should be doing some pasture clearing tomorrow night ,can't wait to try it out.I've learned a LOT from you guys.Dad had taught me to use the old 45* back cut.Still catch myself wanting to do it .Old habits.Never heard of hinge wood till I got here.I've cut for alot of years ,mostly incorrectly I find out!
Once again thanks guys for the education!
Russ
treeclimber101
UNCLE BUCK
I'm gonna have to come clean and say that until now I have never noticed marks for felling straight on a saw, so with that being said I'm gonna look first thing in the morning, furthermore I must travel in stupid people circles because no one has ever pointed them out to me either . lol
