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Aspens regen through coppicing. Cut 1 tree and the roots shoot up through the soil in about a 20 foot radius around the stump, that’s why often times aspen stands are clones of just a couple original trees. They’re super shade intolerant so they’ll shoot up multiple feet in the first year...

Depends on tree species and your goals for that particular stand of timber, but sometimes yes. Aspen? Clear cut is way better. Pines? Select cut thinning until they’re mature then clear cut and hopefully the forester marked good trees to take in the thinnings is the best option. Maples and...

If you’re easy on the rakers and can keep the rpm’s pretty high a saw will oil a bar that’s “too long” for it. Maybe it’s a little harder on the saw but longer bars save the operator, I’d rather rebuild a saw than pay for spinal surgery

Another $20 in the pot @Woodrow

I’ll do it with y’all for another $20

Hard to say anything without seeing them in person, if you shoot me a pm with your address I could swing out next week and tell you what I think

Lord I hope not

Just cut wherever and hope

Can’t wait until people start saying I have no idea what I’m doing like David’s short

Howdy

I’ve blown up 3 500’s on fires, almost every time it was a lot of short throttle blips through small stuff then bar buried for extended periods of time and they got really, really hot and scored on the exhaust side. The going lean while brushing then doing hard work like bucking and falling in...

Sometimes true, happens most often in north Cali. If the saws are from a type 2 crew that makes sense, but hotshot and type 2ia crews drop a lot of trees

It’s not that you need an 80cc saw to cut brush, it’s that you need 1 saw to do everything from cut light brush to dropping snags with a 32” bar buried

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