Put her back up again and give her another try tomorrow
When the wind is howling like a banshee there is one sure fire never fail 3 step method that is guaranteed to get that tree to fall just where you want it but it involves 2 saws, and works best if one of the two is your most prized saw and the other is a cheap pos mini-mac.
1. take prized saw and place it where you want tree to land.
2. cut tree down with cheap saw.
3. watch in amazement as tree smashes prized saw to pieces and lands right where you wanted it to.
There's more. I had to go answer the phone.
While I was in the saw shop, there were several pro fallers dropping off saws and whining about not working due to hootowl conditions, and they had marks like this on their saws.
One guy even enhanced his sights with flagging.
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Is this some kind of fad? Is GOL (Game of Logging) promoting this method of sighting in?
I hope I am not coming off as rude but putting sights on your saw is not the right way to fall a tree. There is a lot of variables when falling a tree like the depth and direction of your under cut, you need to know which corner to leave wood to spin the tree, where to put the wedges, the lean of the tree etc. It takes time but with practice you will learn how to properly fall a tree and you will laugh at yourself for making sights with tape!
I hope I am not coming off as rude but putting sights on your saw is not the right way to fall a tree. There is a lot of variables when falling a tree like the depth and direction of your under cut, you need to know which corner to leave wood to spin the tree, where to put the wedges, the lean of the tree etc. It takes time but with practice you will learn how to properly fall a tree and you will laugh at yourself for making sights with tape!
You don't come off as rude, you come off as pompous and uninformed.
There have been sight lines on chainsaws for decades.
You don't come off as rude, you come off as pompous and uninformed.
There have been sight lines on chainsaws for decades.
You don't come off as rude, you come off as pompous and uninformed.
There have been sight lines on chainsaws for decades.
I don't think so. The orange ax handles made it easier to find the pieces after the Cat ran over it. The faller's suspenders are part of the caste system. If a landing rat shows up wearing them he gets a quick lesson in fashion and style.
I really think those big V shaped gunning sites are for a rookie who's just breaking in. One of the old timers probably put those on there special for him. A training aid as it were.
Think of the leeway there...ten or twenty feet either side of center depending on the height of the tree. I figure a lot of the guys on here who are teaching themselves to fall could use an idea like that.
The guys posting the yellow pics wished we were back in the 70's when the yellow saws still meant something. To each their own. Keep hanging on.
I find that the tree always falls where you want when you close you're eyes and yell timber
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