XP_Slinger
They’re Just Saws
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Howdy fellow fellers,
Didn’t see one so I thought it would be nice to have a thread dedicated to felling techniques. As I came to realize that felling trees for saw logs is wildly different than dropping them for firewood, I received A TON of valuable advice in another thread. I’m still learning a lot from those with more experience around here, it’s not only helping me produce higher quality logs, but also and more importantly keeping me safer as I am felling.
So with all that said, post pics of your stumps, pretty or ugly. We all make mistakes and I think discussing what went wrong is how we truly learn.
Here’s a couple of my latest. My big problem before these was keeping my bore cut level with the face cut. Recently learned the trick of nipping an inch of the outside of the hinge before starting the bore. I’ll try to find a video to illustrate.
My own personal criticism is I left the hinge a little too fat and had to take a little more out after I had driven my wedges as far as I could. Both trees were felled 180* from their natural lean.
Here’s one that shows how bad I was at lining up bore cuts. Tree was down safe, but I wasted some of the butt log from fiber pull due to a hinge that was way too wide. This tree was big for me, 28” DBH, white ash.
Didn’t see one so I thought it would be nice to have a thread dedicated to felling techniques. As I came to realize that felling trees for saw logs is wildly different than dropping them for firewood, I received A TON of valuable advice in another thread. I’m still learning a lot from those with more experience around here, it’s not only helping me produce higher quality logs, but also and more importantly keeping me safer as I am felling.
So with all that said, post pics of your stumps, pretty or ugly. We all make mistakes and I think discussing what went wrong is how we truly learn.
Here’s a couple of my latest. My big problem before these was keeping my bore cut level with the face cut. Recently learned the trick of nipping an inch of the outside of the hinge before starting the bore. I’ll try to find a video to illustrate.
My own personal criticism is I left the hinge a little too fat and had to take a little more out after I had driven my wedges as far as I could. Both trees were felled 180* from their natural lean.
Here’s one that shows how bad I was at lining up bore cuts. Tree was down safe, but I wasted some of the butt log from fiber pull due to a hinge that was way too wide. This tree was big for me, 28” DBH, white ash.
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