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Now I don’t understand 😆

Ok, no it’s nothing like that.

Makes a lot of sense. I have noticed myself back chaining such things. Similar: Recently I read somewhere something that made me smack my forehead. Cutting brush near the tip, back chaining greatly reduces thrown chains. As the bar passes thru the stick, the chain has already gone around...

Well….sorta (he said unconvincingly not really understanding)

On the last glamping trip of the year. 60 F and 25mph winds today. Would be beautiful with out the wind. Made cooking breakfast a challenge but we made it work. I might have to switch out propane tanks tonight for the furnace. The wife and kids are having a good time so I’ll survive.

If I understand right, I have done similar breaking forky codom trees down when I can’t get to the bottom or don’t want to stand under it. Plunge 20” 346 in from the top, bury thru. Swing back and forth to cut the back or bottom side like gutting a hinge. Then cut the remaining side down from...

How much barberchairing do you run into? Only a few species here, aside from loaded trees (e.g. felling a support tree holding a tipped tree) want to BC. Thick hinge... lots of fiber pull. Undesireable for butt logs at the mill...$ deduction, to my understanding. If I'm trying to hold a...

@Mick! “Gnarr” 😉

Then again, if we bore the pith out…OTOH, the grain running opposite the hinge will resist bending and maybe increase the chance of chairing. So deep face prevents chairing but you gotta sink it into the rear third! 😆

I think it contributes. The front compression half of a thick hinge could act as a fulcrum to pull the rear half tension fibers. I think it has more to do with whether the face closes before the hinge breaks or not. If the face closes, the log become a claw hammer pulling a nail (right...

this probably isn't the right thread for this but I don't know what is, just had to share today I learned, miniature horses can be ADA service animals!

True. Sawmillers say to avoid the pith as it splits and quite often trees I cut are already cracked there. So to avoid a chair we need to get deeper in past the pith. That’s the tricky part. I have an idea for bore cutting out the face and leaving a collapsible kickstand in the front, but it’s...

The pith is, from my armchair, the worst to have within/ right near the hinge. Bigleaf maples can be heard crack and pop very audibly at a significant distance. My guess is that happens as I approach the pith. I can feel and hear it pop over the gas saw. When chunking short (~6-10') qmaple...

I don’t think you missed it, I think I did😆

How's life under the steely skies of France? This phase, the living in the deep countryside, living quite isolated lives (socially speaking) is approaching the end. 62 in a month and looking at two or three more years before I pull the plug, sell the gear, give the phone numbers to the lad (if...

I missed a change in direction from BC-propensity to back leaners. Working on a small screen and two weeks of being very tired.

If Angio hold themselves up with tension, it would explain their increased propensity to ‘chair. Getting to the pith would help, the rings are 90° to the cuts there and less likely to separate.

I think back cut first is usually used for back leaners. It would seem you would want to make a pretty deep back cut first, working the wedges in, so as not to lose any lift or pick up any more back lean. More leverage before and after the face is in.

Coffee with eggnog, Christmas music, listening to the rain through the screen door. Beaver-tooth 32”. The one on the right is grade A, the rest are utility grade.