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Love the fern trees in the garden.

Yup:)

Why not cut the first one ( The one the second one is leaning against) first, keeping an eye on the second one? Why not shut up, Stig. Willies method worked fine.

August, I love engaging in flagellation of mortuid equines, as long as it is only in fun. This kind of banter is part of what makes the House special IMO.

Of course he would, August. No way I would have messed around on the underside of that tree like he did. Always have an extra long bar in the truck. Like Chris said, we fit the bar length to the job at hand, and don't go around thinking that the length of our bar has any correlation to the...

It is no heavier than an axe..........5,2 pds is all. The handle is thin enough to be a bit flexible, so it absorbs recoil well. That way your hands don't get all vibrated to pieces when you are beating wedges a lot. Last week I was felling a bunch of mature beech up the sides of a draw. since...

Don't you DARE dis my maul, Sean! This maul belonged to the renowned treefaller who taught me logging back in the 70es. He inherited it from his dad, who also spent his life logging, and having only daughters, who for some weird reason, didn't become loggers, he passed it on to me, when he...

August, while it is of course always fun to engage in a little flagellation of dead ponies, this has been discussed about a gazillion times before. Consensus is that the working environments determine what bar length it is proper to run. For the last week I've been felling mature beech seed...

Sometimes that isn't enough, Jerry. Martin, who was with us when we visited you this summer, is quitting on friday. Not because he doesn't enjoy the work or doesn't feel treated right, but because he got the chance of following his old dream and going to the police academy. We have a huge...

Herr Murphy!

I'd say falling a LOT is the key ingredient for becoming a good faller.

Sure, but at least he was smart enough to go high enough for some straight fibers.

As high as he is cutting, that is not going to matter any.

Won't help you much. I speak German and my Swiss wife does as well.None of us can translate it. Würzenschnitt is a made up word, most likely from Wurzeln, meaning roots.

Jeeeez, that was ridiculous! Some stupid adaptation of the german cut, where putting in a full gap face would have accomplished the same and been way faster. Mind you, in a setting like that I would have gone the same way, but with the gap face, to make sure my hinge held as long as possible...

I don't get the "to avoid pulling hardwood fibers" thing at all. Gut the middle of the hinge out, and leave the tree standing on two squares of sapwood as hinge. I do that most of the time anyway, becasue on broad hardwood trees, you need all the speed you can get, to avoid hanging them up...

Seems like a good way to get hurt.

We have an agreement in my firm. When we log, we can dress like we want and generally yell and scream and do the victory dance when the trees land where we want them to if that pleases us, because there are no-one around to see it. When we work in somebody's yard or at the castle grounds, we...

Like you say, different strokes...............!

Are you jerking my chain? I tell them they'll get fired if they do that. Act like it is something you do every day, no big deal.