mostly it keeps the but from sliding back over the stem and landing in your lap since you have nowhere to go. If it the speared tip of a traditional or open face cut top gets under your lanyard, you're screwed. Any time you use a traditional or open face, you create an inclined plane that wants...
I AM all for a Humboldt at height in the tree. And have stopped climbers to insist they use it when there is a chance of the top hanging up early in a large falling top scenario. And I wish you all would stop misquoting me. It's petty to have to keep saying "NO I DIDN'T SAY THAT".
I have...
while the Humboldt definitely has some advantages, it's pretty clear from the last tree in this video that it's a lot easier to use the open face or traditional when those advantages are not needed.
Here's my comment on YouTube:
With all those small pieces to whittle away at the face, the cut would be much easier if you used a traditional or an open face.. angled cut first. You keep crawling around on your knees and bending down to look up into the cut. Up and down over and over again to...
In suburban arboriculture, the open face or traditional face has many more practical applications than the Humboldt. Some west coast guys can't cut anything else. Some non-west coast guys try to cut the Humboldt on everything because they see the west coast guys doing it like that. The Humboldt...
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