Put her back up again and give her another try tomorrow
Sighting In A Saw
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rdtreewalker
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I have an old mauser style peep sight on my felling saw, only time I miss is when I dont compensate enough for the wind
Logger4Life
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Everytone misses once in a while . But from what I see in the pic is the tree fell exactly where it was aimed. And I cut atleast a 150 merchantable trees a day on average in 9 hours. I work in the heart on veneer cherry contry the most exspensive hardwood in North America. So the best advice that I can give is that practice makes prefect. I would cut a few more trees and adjust yourself to the saw and learn the feel of the saw and for god sakes always ear a hard hat and get away from the stump. Jay
McCulloch1-52
ArboristSite Guru
Well at least you don't have to adjust the carburetor(float) evertime you cut down a tree like they did back in the day.
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.
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.
McCulloch1-52
ArboristSite Guru
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.
Or a new atv would work too.
huskyman1
ArboristSite Member
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!
Oh. Thanks.
RandyMac
Stiff Member
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 think you need to put some tape on that saw so your elderly eyes can see the sight line! After properly sighting it in, of course.
Now, can pink duck tape be used for such an application?
huskyman1
ArboristSite Member
You don't come off as rude, you come off as pompous and uninformed.
There have been sight lines on chainsaws for decades.
I apologize if I came off that way that is not my intentions at all I grew up logging and I have never seen those taped on sights before. If they are common then again I apologize I did not mean to insult anyone. I am only trying to give some advice as I have personally fallen several million feet at production level.
RandyMac
Stiff Member
s'ok huskyman1
The Mac logo has the angles on it, no tape needed.
Old am I? Missy Miss, I'll put acorns in your hubcaps.
The Mac logo has the angles on it, no tape needed.
Old am I? Missy Miss, I'll put acorns in your hubcaps.
hkusp9
ArboristSite Operative
You don't come off as rude, you come off as pompous and uninformed.
There have been sight lines on chainsaws for decades.
THY RANDYMAC'ETH HATH SPOKEN!
All others be powned by his common sensedness and wisdom!
Next time just move the tree before you snap the pic. Problem solved.
bcorradi
Arboristsite.com Sponsor
I think the OP may be too big to see the sight lines.
bcorradi
Arboristsite.com Sponsor
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.
The purpose of the V paintings is obvious - they are so the operator can look to see which is "up" on the saw.
Harry K
RandyMac
Stiff Member
sorry you plastic saw guys missed the good timber. Or are ya cranky 'cause the string got caught in yer panties.
I find that a tree always lands where I want it...as long as I wait until it is down to decide.
Harry K
