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    Breaking Stig's Rules about making a face cut in 2 cuts

    Shigo urged the same thing when he said always shoot to make the target cut perfectly... That teaching is completely unrealistic and has continued to plague the tree care industry for over 40 years. One of my clients, a surgeon, turned me onto this saying: Perfection is the enemy of good...
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    Breaking Stig's Rules about making a face cut in 2 cuts

    this is the internationally high second cut
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    Breaking Stig's Rules about making a face cut in 2 cuts

    I spend an extra minute to make this notch then saved an hour on the clean up and lawn repair That's a 28" bar 3" short for the notch the intentionally high second cut takes about 20 seconds on average. It's hard to understand how making such a quick and easy modification to the open face...
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    Breaking Stig's Rules about making a face cut in 2 cuts

    #3) Remote trip swing... NO one had any idea this could even be done when I published it. Notice the lack of comments... only one comment with 1,400 views. Its so far above everyone's head they don't know what to say... When it was put up here, people had to ask how it was done.
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    Breaking Stig's Rules about making a face cut in 2 cuts

    Biggest, tallest, heaviest back leaner that has ever been stood up on video in a suburban setting: that's two .. I can keep going...
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    Breaking Stig's Rules about making a face cut in 2 cuts

    That's 2017... you're 6 years late to the party! And you have my full and complete respect. I forget exactly which video it was, but you threw some monster top into a super tight LZ perfectly. STANDING OVATION! You are the real deal for taking tops.
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    Breaking Stig's Rules about making a face cut in 2 cuts

    if you want to run your mouth, all I ask is that you show me SOMETHING... ANYTHING Otherwise good riddance Sven had the decency to post up a couple of pics when asked.
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    Breaking Stig's Rules about making a face cut in 2 cuts

    Did you use that basic tree work facecut to drop that tree on your chipper, or the block cut with the snipe?
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    Breaking Stig's Rules about making a face cut in 2 cuts

    You're not even close.. WTF have you done? .. you'd lose your license if you pulled off one tenth of the cuts I've shown on YouTube. You criticize what you don't understand. You Brits are stuck in some rule book made for rookies that I have long since transcended. I can put up 10 videos that...
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    Breaking Stig's Rules about making a face cut in 2 cuts

    Great. This site could use a fresh voice. One suggestion would be ... if you really want to learn, reserve your judgment and open your mind
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    Breaking Stig's Rules about making a face cut in 2 cuts

    which cuts, in particular, are you referring to? And please show some of your work so we know what kind of man we are in a conversation with. Oh and since that is your first post, welcome to the treehouse ;)
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    Breaking Stig's Rules about making a face cut in 2 cuts

    I AM faster in a bucket than anyone on a rope and saddle... ANYONE! Your attitude shows what a limited view you have. That said I was on rope and saddle for the above video, which you must not have watched Forward the link to your apprentices and see if they call me fat, lazy doing shoddy work!
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    Breaking Stig's Rules about making a face cut in 2 cuts

    We are in different businesses brother Stig. When my life is on the line, I'll spend the extra few seconds to get more control from the hinge. Do you understand the gap face has extra holding ability? And that this cut gets a similar effect for a whole lot less effort? In the above case that...
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    Breaking Stig's Rules about making a face cut in 2 cuts

    Stig recently called another topping cut "shoddy work" because the photo of the face showed that it had more than 2 cuts used to make the face. In the above video, it takes less than 5 seconds to make the intentionally high first bottom cut of the face (from 6:12-6:17). This allows the seconds...
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