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Staying a long bar length away from one you think might explode is a very good plan.

I'll echo...nice bit of work, and thanks for sharing.

You've been getting advice and input from Jerry Beranek...the Jerry Beranek :). It doesn't get much better than that.

I think I told you that... :D

The options presented by the triangle strip approach are interesting. I've never done a Coos Bay that the strip wasn't set up as even, front to back...whether it was the Burnham method with a face and hinge, leaving a T shape to back cut, or the Davis/Beranek method with no face cut at all...

I agree with Willie...not likely you'll close it up, but keeping it from flying around is a good plan.

Clean, consise explaination of the forces and our objectives in managing them, Jerry. You do that as well as anyone alive.

That cut has some proponents over here on the left coast, far side of the pond, Ed. It's a good one, so long as the head lean lets you sneak in those faces without sitting on your bar. Same problem the Burnham version of the Coos Bay has :|:.

That is as nasty a fell as most of us will ever face, brother. Looking at pics in nowhere near enough real world info for me to advise any further. Take great care, and watch your head.

Coos Bay cut on a 48" DBH stem is no place to be messing around with an underpowered saw, a less that razor sharp chain, and a shorty bar. Be absolutely sure you have the lean direction accurately read. The CB is only of use if the lay you are gunning to is directly to the lean. If you have a...