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Good vid Daniel, nice work. you need a better camera though. The definition isn't too good.

Ok, appreciate it:)

Good for you, as all your cuts up a tree are beyond reproach you will never have anything to worry about.

They both represent improper cutting technique, the only difference is location and consequence. If you can get it wrong on the ground, you can get it wrong up a tree. And who hasn't pinched a saw?

There are lots of things that shouldn't happen but do, even down to pinching a saw in a cut or touching a stone on the ground, taking a few quick precautions (that doesn't involve dumping a thousand pounds worth of saw from a great height) Isn't an admission of lack of technique.

I find the practice of completely un clipping thousands of quids worth of saw bizarre. As has been suggested if in doubt clip it to the tree it self, if the saw does snag and the branch has a really significant weight the bar will bend and free it self. New bar maybe but power unit intact. This...

Hi Bermy, are you saying that (as I have read elsewhere) that on large horizontals you unclip the saw?

Ok, thought as much.

One last question, would you put the top cut inside the bottom (inboard is I believe the terminology) outboard or straight down on top?

Cheers Butch.

Just so I know, by kerf undercut you mean an undercut the width of the chain? not a gob as it were.

Never thought of that, I'll give it a go next time.

Sometimes it seems to me no matter what you do it's going to tear, step cuts, gobs, whatever. The only thing I take into account is the species, Spruce, whilst rarely having large horizontals, will always seem to hang on, deodars break off clean and drop horizontal, Oaks tricky to break off...