Recent content by Gypo

I've used haywire from 3/16 up to 7/16. Yarder dependant. 3/8 is most common here. 1 1/8" is biggest chokers I ever set. Downhilling with a skavinsky, aka rider block, aka pollocking. Wow, just realized that was 28 years ago. I'm gonna take a nap.

One season in se alaska isn't much, I admit. Twenty-two years cutting, and counting, down here in Oregon. I'm not worried about bears for my own safety. I'm worried what they will do to local livestock and wildlife. I put them in the same category as wolves, and if you're a hunter or rancher...

To each their own, that's why they make so many models I guess. My pants have holes in the knees long before the pockets wear out. From cutting trees, on my knees. Just thought I'd be preemptive about the lewd coments. 😁

I've seen dozens. Spent a season cutting in Hoonah.

I know the feeling. I miss my dog more than most people, by a fair margin.

Carried old timer stockmans for years, lost most of em. Switched to case when schrade went over seas. Favorite nowadays is a case sowbelly. Three knives in one. Never understood packing a single bladed knife myself, not when it's almost the same size with two or three blades.

I have and still do in big timber. The rest of the time an axe is plumb adequate.

I've read your posts for years Stig, and I respect you and what you do. On this subject I guess we'll have to agree to disagree.

We ridded ourselves of these predators long ago for a reason. Just my .002

Kicker

True Dutchman, in my neck of the woods.

Kicker in face.

When line comes tight its half way up the end of the log. Line forces log to move to the right in this case.

Imagine ladder is a stump you want to put the log around, ground lead. Kicker.

A bypass cut I think you guys call it on the gunning kerf of the face on the far side is a kicker. Also sometimes called a Dutchman. I only call it a Dutchman when you're setting it up to swing a tree, which is simular but different from a kicker. But that's Cutting timber. A kicker set on a...