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Have you used your climbing gear for a giant swing for adults. A good way to get comfy...fly around like mad.

I advocate for muffs and plugs.

Seems like this could be about cutting slowly, or leaving too much hinge. The facecut angle will affect the rebound, but I was more thinking about the barber chair. A guy in the San Juan Islands runs his firewood/ tree business from a Mini-x because he was crushed by the Circle of Death. It...

Just that being aware of barberchairing is important. Your 540 lanyard wrap is better than a 180, but far worse than a central connection for both ends of your lanyard. Circle of Death. A handsaw to finish can be slow and let a tree barber chair. If its leaning, you're not steering it much...

Spar-split discussion. http://www.treebuzz.com/forum/threads/spar-split-on-me-even-though-notched-properly.31426/

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A straight blade hand saw allows an even hinge, rather than narrower at the corners, rarely noticeable. You have lean. Fast cutting up to the desired hinge thickness reduces barber chairing, in a leaning, straight grain hardwood.

I thought the same as Gary. The butt can land backward of the stump if it over rotates and springs of the tip. A problem when there is an obstacle behind the stump.

Increased risk of Barber chair, more load, greater leverage, down low.

Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. Learn about barberchair'ing. Seems like leaning ash would be prone to it, but I don't know out there. BC prevention, too.

How are the leans on the trees? Anything significant? I'm just thinking about a barberchair. I don't like to cut with the saw at neck level. I'm not concerned about the saw as much at chest level, fwiw.

A bin is sometimes useful for a repeat rigging. Faster to stack the whole rope into, and move around, keeping it more easily 'clean and tidy' around legs and sticks. Don't choke the biner against the spine, as a habit. If I'm on thin branches, I prefer a half-hitch or marl before the choke...

If you leave a stub that is a top-handle saw width, you can cut the stub (geometry of the tree permitting the bar to be upright and vertical) so that is rests on the top of the saw, held with the pinky. Alternately, you can flick the stub to a target area (or more often, not in the area of an...

Akin to the atl-atl. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spear-thrower

Used to be recommended to cut tip-ward of undercut, which doesn't make sense much, then butt-ward of undercut became recommended. Dead even, to a little butt-ward, for me.

Good point, Joel. I generally will make sapwood cuts below my hinge. If the hinge tears down, it stops at the sapwood cuts. I don't lose any steering capacity of the corners, which are the strongest directors of where a well face-cut piece will go (ignoring lean).

Strike from above/ at the height of the limb, as mentioned. Cut that split tail in half or so. Make two. Scaffold knot to biner. Be aware of reaction of the limb. If you are taking off a long dangly thing, the remaining trunk can move quite a bit. What was working from the side to release, can...