GASoline71
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Gary
Gary
Got a question, I'm going to buck up a 30 inch oak log in the morning. i already have bucked some of it up. Anyway i use a wedge to keep the kerf open if i think it's going to pinch the saw. What else could be done without using a wedge? Probably still 30 feet of the tree left to buck up.
LOL, Well ok. It's too hot anyway.Stay home.
LOL, Well ok. It's too hot anyway.
I cut day before yesterday and it was 101. Had to drink plenty of gatorade and water. Supposed to be 102 or 103 tommorrow. Gonna get out there early.Thats right. Way too hot man.
Hoo da Mang?I are mang...
Gary
Got a question, I'm going to buck up a 30 inch oak log in the morning. i already have bucked some of it up. Anyway i use a wedge to keep the kerf open if i think it's going to pinch the saw. What else could be done without using a wedge? Probably still 30 feet of the tree left to buck up.
what i do is reach as far over the log as you can and cut letting the bar rollover toward the bottom of log then pull back and cut straight down when log starts to pinch pull bar back but not all the way out then cut down to the bottm and then come back up thru the cut . never stopping the cut. i think i explained that right. its easy for me to do or show how to do it but hard to explain. hell i drop ,top and buck all day long but telling someone how is a different story.
and set the spikes like Ahab woulda.
Even though buckin' big stuff out here can be a chore... I definately will take it over buckin' big crowned trees anyday. The terrain out here is the killer. It's what adds to the complexity of buckin' big wood. You gotta be able to read the land, and how the wood is layin' on it.
I too will put a boot up on a log to feel for movement. I wish I had a 3rd eye sometimes... One to watch the kerf, one to watch for compression or contraction and roll, and another to watch the end of the log.
Sometimes (like Burvy said) feeling through the bar ain't enough. All of your senses come in to play on steep ground and big wood. I too misread a log when I was young... got sent for a ride about 15 feet and landed sqare on my back into a Doug Fir stump. I have had the wind knocked out of me before... but not like that. I got sent home early that day... was out for a week with bruised ribs and a messed up shoulder.
Sawbuck had a dunce cap for me at work the next week...
Don't use dynamite...
Gary
Pure ####in glory. are we mercenaries, are we a sacrifice?
I'm all there!
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Is there a way besides experience to learn to read the log? Is it all just all feel and something you have to feel to know, or are there other methods to recognize pinch points and stored energy aimed at you?
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