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What do you all think about this video?

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Looked like a pro job to me, fairly common on big cedar to have butt rot
 
Seemed pro but a little slow. Narrow faces on those big trees are common practice-once committed they are going. I doubt that the fiber pull on the back left was really desired....but everything seemed under control.
 
Sorry, can't offer an opinion. My employer's server blocks wherever the vid is posted...as is the case with most.
 
The guy knew what he was doing, but he had an awfully small saw for such a large tree. It looked like even though he cut from both sides, there was still a post in the center he couldn't reach. He was lucky the center was rotten so this didn't alter the direction of the fall. It also made me nervous to see the dog running around like that.
 
Seemed pro but a little slow. Narrow faces on those big trees are common practice-once committed they are going. I doubt that the fiber pull on the back left was really desired....but everything seemed under control.

Slow? Huh, he was doubling up, faced and cut up a 50" tree in just over 4 minutes. Hardly slow at all. He knocked it out in good fashion.
 
Looked good to me, like Dave says, 4 minutes to knock over a big punky cedar is pretty good going. As for the small saw, looked and sounded like a ported 385 / 395, and perfect for the job. Remember us europeans traditionally use shorter bars, so the saw seemed perfect sized to me.

I particularly liked his axe pouch - reminds me of a picture Burnham posted a while back.
 
It's an inboard clutch, so not a 395. I know the 372 has an inboard, don't know about the 385.

I guess you don't need much bar when there's only a 6" rind of tree left.:\:
 
He did an excellent job, nothing wrong with that at all. If he hadn't left the strap at the back it would have broke/pulled a lot more wood at the hinge.
 
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Looked good to me. Revelstoke is 2hours from me. Awesome mountains, skiing, hot springs and trees!8)
 
Saw is plenty big for the job. He could have bored out the middle of the facecut and taken out the center of the log that way.
He probably saw that the log was rotten in the core and realized it wouldn't be necessary.

The dog stayed in place, until disturbed by the photographer.
All my dogs have been trained to stay put when I fall, so I know exactly where they are. Takes some training to make a dog lie next to a big hardwood without getting up when it slams into the ground.

One thing that looked funny: that cutting a line in the bark to see where the falling cut ends is kind of a beginners trick in my opinion.
 
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How about this one?

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