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Very nice gunsighting August. When you said "peeler logs" I'm thinking logs turned on a mill lathe to make plywood. That's what we call them up here, as I have once harvested lots of oversize spruce for Weyerhaeuser plywood mills

Funny thing in the Tasmania video Grahem doesn't hang his saw on his saddle rather then dropping it and let it hang below him. Seems like a lot of extra effort pulling it up for each cut. Saw a safety video opnce where a climber had his saw hang like that and when a cut piece of wood fell on it...

Thanks, my brother has some good videos but their the old VCR tape format. We just have to figure out getting them on a disc and possibly get them on you tube some how. Don't know if thats possible. Records vary with wood species, moisture content , growth ring spacing. Only until the day...

That's me running that saw and I got earplugs pushed all the way in.:D I built that saw with my own hands 32 years ago and it still runs perfect today.....only it's been on a long retirement as a shelf queen for a while now. But do plan to take it on the road again. The pic above is taken in...

No problem I've made thousands of cuts with that saw. Backchaining to make the up cuts too haha

I challenge anyone who thinks their man enough to run my short 16" bar 40HP Yamaha bikesaw for 3 cuts.......:lol:

I think you're talking about the B.C. guys. Workers Comp has their hard hats screwed on so tight they don't know if their coming or going.:D

Ha ha words of wisdom from the land of the long bar where every woodcutter dreams or even thinks he has the right to cut big timber. Thrown in a half or full wrap and " boy do I look good".........until the right coast guy proves he can out cut and handle a saw better with a short bar and half...

That's a two way question. When I logged old growth sawlog spruce I had to make the humboldt diagonal upward cut first, horizontal second. Now a open face notch with a humboldt would be a 90 -110 degree open face notch. And yes make the top diagonal cut first.

No I don't :lol: When I made a living hand falling I was quite flexible keeping those stumps near the ground and never had to kneel. Firewood bucking on the ground sometimes calls for kneeling to keep the sawchain out of the dirt though.

The only time I don't do the wide open face cut is if I have alot of trees to fell like several days of ROW or land clearing. That long diagonal cut is way too slow but if I have a couple of tender loving care trees to drop I'll use it. Rather then cut a waist high stump I'll kneel down...

Your relating back to the old timberfaller set in stone attitude Corey. Try my method and you'll see the light.

Jay, re-read my last 2 posts. With a narrow face you cannot see the window in the diagonal cut properly and aiming your gunsight with that first cut is also not as accurate. Plus if fine tuning the gunsight with some extra adjustment cuts is much easier to do versus a narrow face. It's...

Thanks Jed. Main point I'm preaching for arbs with little felling experience and yes even vets........ is make the diagonal cut first as you make your gunsight. Then watch for the chain through the "window" while making the horizontal face notch cut. Very very easy to line up the 2 cuts this...

Thought I'd add these pics of my advanced gunsight with a 4 foot drywall T square to dial in the gunsight to lay precisely. The beauty of the 70 degree open face notch is it can be easily re cut for adjustment if an error was made in the first gunsight cuts. After setting square in notch...

Ok Jed, let's seperate the arborists and timber cutter techniques. Seeing we're on a arborist site and doing urban removals with no worries of flat stumps for the mill. _First we have to make a "conventional" open face notch [diagonal cut on top, horizontal on bottom] which is typically 70-90...

He may have even used a square to dial in his gunsight for reassurance ;)

I'm sure he made a few trips back and forth to the far hinge corner to make sure everything is square to his gunsight on first setting up the face. Back cut same again make sure you don't cut through.........wouldn't you think Jay? A tree like that felled in a urban setting that tight to...

Stupid auto correct on this phone is a PITA. Had to re edit my last post several times.

I never mark my corners, why bother you have to keep an eye on both ends of the hinge anyways. When you have a hinge twice the width of your bar your going to have to walk around the tree several times to size up the gunsight and hinge thickness so how is a mark going to help? Falling timber...