I use full house on everything up to a 28” bar. Longer then that and I go with skip. And like you said, slashing with skip chain can be a pain in the ass.
about right.
My rule was over 24" but when you have clean cutting and your feet are sunk in snow then there is something to be said about a 28" lite/ full house . My last few winters of doing beetle work then that was what i used. I wouldn't go back to a 24 bar. No way!
I wasn't meaning any disrespect to you or Skeans there 6-8 weeks back.
What I say? You were open minded for one that teaches a stupid book and Skeans was so stuck in his way that he would never be able to see past his 'you know what. Much respect to Skeans and generations of family before him that brought him up. He is a very well rounded guy. If I was ever back there starting up a show then he would be one of the first guys you would want. Much respect to him and to the Oregonian way. It's legendary.
When you said you had been a QST was 12 yrs then I clued in to who you were then by your first name. The first time you said it then I assumed you were a new QST and I never put 2 &2 together. So you were just behind the front runner of the whole Certification thing.
Odlly I only met you once in Tumbler Ridge at Mamway camp (Erm..how ever you spell it ) in 2008. on a Veritas Heli portable job with Dave Thompson as PM. My partner knew you and said you were going to be a QST on the job. You were delivering supply's I believe and left before we kicked off. So it was rumours or plans change. I believe you said you were just dropping stuff off and going off to another job
Anyway I am all good with the program but it's a guideline. If the slab of Cedar was 6 ft longer and Mark Goring didn't get on the radio and tell me to GET OUT! Then perhaps I would have retired at the stump. I don't waste time to look up. I just droped my saw and did a high jump style up the bank into my hole and behind a 3 1/2 ft tree and pulled my legs in and didn't move until Mark said.." you sure called that right"
All because I didn't back bar a pusher tree from up the hill. Hand position = Body position. A wrap handle only covers you so much especially if hand position has to change at hight. That puts your body's out 90°. I need to be looking down at the unstable tree. Naturally I went to the back bar and then switched for some reason??? Like all the people telling me "done back bar" finally got in my head at the wrong time. 7ft Cedar snag that mainly wanted to go down hill but had a big spiral slab that was cranked put the hill ready to separate. I cut the slap up to nothing in a gravel washout on a 45°
I pulled my ear muff as I went up. That thing was creaking.
The slab did tweak my handle bar when I dropped it. That's close. Only took my eye off it for a split second.
We shut down for 5. I was so mad at me for letting someone else's program get in my head. Then I went down there and f—cked that thing up into toothpicks.
Mark is a great dude.
that's funny coming from me.
