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In the picture with the face-cut, are you setting up to pull against the lean or...?

That was my guess about who and why.

I think there is a component of having the pith in the hinge. "angiosperms (hardwoods) and gymnosperms (softwoods) build compensatory wood differently. Angiosperms produce tension wood on the upper side of a leaning stem, which contracts to pull it upright, while gymnosperms produce...

Me, he’s not ready for stuff like this yet.

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If that you or your climber, Mick?

Fiber pull has more to do with hinge thickness.

Feast or famine on the workpics. Long dead Sweet chestnut to get on the floor.

Neat looking machine. I like that track arrangement.

I think that is true for either the Humbolt or the conventional face. No other way it could be.

When cutting big trees, way easier to clear the wedge out of the face-cut. I've bore-cut vertically into the center of a wedge, inserted a wedge, pounded to split the face, slid 1/2 out, then a blow on the remaining vertical side of the second 1/2 releases the second 1/2. They side down and...

Why would one cut a face unnecessarily high?

Are you sure there isn't deduction for fiber- pull? Would fiber-pull reduce veneer logs to saw-logs?

Are the dogs ok with cats?

@davidwyby this is still doing the rounds, appeared on my fb reels. Always fun reading the comments.

The swing out station can come out to the left and the right. From the right, with the belt and covers in the way it’s not good. From the left (pictured) it’s better than you think, because there’s only one lever to operate (as opposed to the two levers, ergo two handed operation of the Rayco)...

Beating on a horse’s grave… I think tree shape is relevant. On a round tree with no face, the uncut portion is a triangle. The forward point toward the lay is going to resist and the tree is going to seek the path of least resistance, one side or another. If you have ever ridden a 3 wheeler...

Re: bending vs pulling hinge, I had a bulb on that one too. Buckin went east and Humboldted some hardwoods. Fiber pull. The more closed Humboldt pulls fiber, where as an open or vertical hinge face bends and breaks the fibers before it closes.

Usually when the two cuts are compared, they are drawn symmetrically, one up and one down. In real life, a Humboldt tends to be less open and deeper and a conventional more vertical, open, and shallow. Proponents of the Humboldt say that the conventional wastes wood off the butt log. Guys...

How’s the visibility of the cut?