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I don't think I've seen quartersawn madrone before. Had you not told what it was, I would have guessed sycamore with a fungal stain.

If you boil the hell out of madrone, it will dry stable. Ionce took a class with Oregon turner Dale Larson. He invented a method to cure rough turned bowls from Madrone burl that works really well. He boils them for 5-6 hours!!!! I'm looking at one of his bowls as I write this, beautiful work...

I beat that " Run, Forest, Run!" thing into my apprentices with a big stick. Also the " don't lose your life trying to save a frigging chainsaw" thing. Had that guy been one of mine, he would most likely have preferred to have the tree hit him, instead of having to deal with me afterwards:lol:

Biggest mistake was the guy with the saw just standing there when the tree went over. Get the F... out of the way, dude!!!! I mean, trees go wrong for all of us once in a blue moon, but don't just stand and watch it happening.

Well, it worked.

I don't find that expensive at all, for the quality. Really fine video for advertising purposes.

Keep your cool, and don't run before you know where the shit is going to fall.

Look at the tree and more important, look up. I saw a video of someone, can't remember whom, might have been Burnham, felling a free standing tree. He looked up some 5 times as he was wedging it over, and I thought :" That there is a logger". The habit learned in the woods are not lost easily...

Man, that sure beats jumping from tree to tree. Wish I had one of those hooks back when I spent two months a year doing that.

That was the first thing I noticed:lol:

You've moved up in the world since I visited you, Willie. I sure wish I could afford to have someone pound my wedges for me:lol: Nice day for sure, trees like that and plenty of room to fall them. What more could one wish for.

Dave, have you ever heard me saying that borecutting everything is smart? I cut everything I can get away with from the back, but on trees with defect and on gusty days, I'll play it safe. But you are right, monday morning quarterbacking sure is easy. The only reason I piped up was that Justin...

He has way too thich a hinge when it goes, hence the barberchair. Looks to me like he tries to cut his way out of it, which would be the thing to do. Better to avoid it all together by boring in on the near side ( where you can actually reach as opposed to the far side, which is over the abyss)...

So it is SOP to let trees barberchair like that. What is the average life expectancy for fallers up there.........2 weeks? The fact that I wear Wescos, not Vibergs is not going to keep me from saying that he screwed up.

Nasty. Makes me glad to be a bore cutter.

Murph, have you ever heard of irony? The point I was trying to make, was that any faller worth his salt could have dropped that one with a couple of wedges.

Well, no wonder. That was obviously a real difficult tree to fall.

Well, its German, what do you expect? <iframe width="420" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/7AlEvy0fJto" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

No, from not having the facecut deducted from the log. When you fell and buck some 1000 of trees each year, the small stuff makes a difference.

Tough to explain just like that. It is from Don Blair's "Arborist equipment" Can someone please scan the relevant page and post it. I have lent my copy of the book to someone and can't for the life of me not remember whom!