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The fact is that I never was so fortunate to take a course from the man himself as Burnham had. In lieu of his presence in this plane I ask of you Burnham your thoughts on the kerf Dutchman and it's variants.

Daniel you and I are going to have to agree to disagree. Pruning is a shock to the tree more like snow load breakage and wind damage. Trees have evolved to self prune during these type of hardships. The type of shedding that you are referring to is just that shedding due to the limbs inability...

Target pruning is based on the evolution of the tree as a self sustained, resilient champion of time in its environment. Thus the healthy tree for purpose of greater good will shed a limb before it topples its stem. Just the simple laws of leverage and force dictate that the most strained point...

Thanks Burnham , that explains exactly my experience with the narrow angle face cut. The guys that taught it to me called it a "jump cut" and claimed that it could be made to spring the top farther from the base of the tree. I myself found that a middle angle face cut erring to wide angle...

Well I for one am first to admit my mistake of veering on a trolls tangent hijacking a thread that deserves better. I have personally used a narrow face in what I was told is a "jump cut" when climbing. Mr. Coates frequently extols the virtues of the narrow face while climbing. What are the...

I want to hear from people in leadership positions a positive message full of solutions from expert counsel. I don't like unilateral capricious behavior that I spanked both of my boys for when they deserved it. Our current president is capable of so much better if he would just stop fighting...

There is no "huge problem". The sheer volume of trees felled in the timber harvest industry and the variety of trees worldwide harvested is the reason why arborists look to "loggers" for felling cuts. Mr. Beranek worked both in the timber industry and in the line clearing industry with some...

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What do you expect from the city that has a bronze statue of a fictional character(Rocky Balboa) at the base of its library and made up a ton of lies about how awesome its broken bell is. Tell me did you guys commission the statue of Rocky because it was the first time that you ever saw one of...

Yeah, science bro!

What a morbid yet humorous turn we have taken here, but I may argue that we remain relevant to the thread. D. Douglas Dent's works appear to be an effort to create a standard operating procedure for the many variables in timber works. Like a hippocratic oath we strive to first not kill ourselves...

Well yes, doesn't Daniel have a keen sense of the obvious!?! All of our lives and times before that long dirt nap in the old pine box are temporary. If he were giving some foreboding cautionary holophrase indicating that my reference manuals and learned habits are antiquated and will soon cease...

Thinking in the "box" has kept me out of this one...

Thank you both for forcing me to clarify. This misuse of the term stump shot comes from my witnessing multiple occasions where I would make a Dent text book conventional or Humboldt face and minimum 2" elevated to the undercut back cut felling cut. My hinges were parallel my back cuts made with...

Perhaps I should have specified stump pull. The wood of the albezia will shear longitudinal just above meeting of the level and undercut of the face cuts. Although you can make them nice and neat and open face the stump often looks like you made a narrow face and left too much holding wood

In Hawaii there's a tree that is called by common name of albezia. It grows incredibly fast. Gets huge and has super brittle limbs. Grows kinda like a pin oak but has a think dominant central trunk. Heavy when wet, lumber when convert is like strong balsa(light) and rots fast of left in the...

When I was a teenager and logging the old timers warned me about the old growth that were left behind because of defects. "Shake" is a well known condition in which the growth rings will be unbonded. The resultant growth stresses can be phenomenal. Worst case scenario they spiral and once when...

I have stumbled upon a video of a gentleman Reg Coates(I'm sure you all are familiar) . In the vein of D. Douglas Dent and his thoughts on "barber chair", I found Reg's thoughts and reflection of the subject very interesting from the perspective of a climber. If anyone can turn me onto more and...

I'm so glad that at a moments notice we have all climbed above the proverbial falling s#%t that I inadvertently cut loose.

My most humble apologies. I really appreciate your posts. My effort was more at humor and I know that may have come off as offensive and snark. I don't want anyone to delete anything. I just thought it would be a funny post and ironic given what I have read of D. Douglas Dent's personality. I...