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Understandably so.

He sounds like a badass! Looks like he trains hard!

I've recently found that whizzy/ sizwheels help steer some hard-to-steer branches-- doug-fir.

In guessing that's a thick hinge, pulled hard, giving lots of fiber pull. Triple hinge/ whizzy might work enough without such fiber pull. Maybe not!

He's on TB.

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...

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

Yes. Makes sense!

IDK that the order would help. No wedges needed with a head leaner.

I avoid a facecut when knocking off leaning, short logs in barberchair- prone trees. I cut them like bucking to avoid a split. Cut around the log on 4 'sides' leaving a center square of holding wood. Cut the holding wood square from tension toward compression. No splitting and they slide off...

I'm still unclear what is being visually represented here.

I like that nugget for teaching : "The 80+/10- rule"

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...

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If that you or your climber, Mick?

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?