Measuring techniques are like opinions, everbody has one and it might stink. This one sure got the emotions flyin.
Yeah, everyone has one, and if that's what works?... Well...
But emotion? Naw... this thread didn't get my dander up.
The original question was how to keep rounds all the same length while cutting. I started seeing answers that required an addition of equipment and time... most of them adding one, two, or even more extra steps to the job at hand. Well in my mind that's working harder, certainly not smarter; anytime you add equipment, tools, extra steps or time to a job your efficiency level and production rate drops... and at a rapid rate I might add (something I learned working as a Service Manager/Shop Foreman for 22-years, a 10% drop in efficiency = a 20% drop in production). So when I questioned those methods, and explained how I do it without adding any equipment, tools, extra steps or time, simply by just using a modification of what you're already doing, I got flamed because people were reading something into it that wasn't there, such as extra cuts, extra time holding the saw, saw aerobics, etc. (for example, the reply from
blacklocst). So, I was just trying help and give a clearer, more descriptive explanation of the method... not trying to
prove I was right as
Guido accused.
Most of y'all have seen the pictures of my stacks, right? I've posted those pictures several times... 10-cord of oak in five single, 35-ft long stacks... 10-cord, and except for a rare oops, the splits don't vary more than an inch from the average... most don't vary even a half-inch. That's using two different bars, over several weekends of cutting... there ain't no need for me to
prove my method works... ain't no need for me to
prove anything.