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  1. Burnham

    First Coos Bay cut and dealing with broken limbs

    I'm with these other guys, a bit lost. Look forward to a pic.
  2. Burnham

    First Coos Bay cut and dealing with broken limbs

    Yep.
  3. Burnham

    First Coos Bay cut and dealing with broken limbs

    OK, think I got it...but Dave, please tell just what you mean by the word "steep", in this reference.
  4. Burnham

    First Coos Bay cut and dealing with broken limbs

    Can you describe this one please, Dave? I know you have spoken of it before, but I've not yet been able to get the clear picture.
  5. Burnham

    First Coos Bay cut and dealing with broken limbs

    Sure do, and that's a great trick for the toolbox...but plenty of the ones I dealt with along roadways were in the 4 to 6 inch dbh range, 30 to 40 feet tall...big enough to kill a man if they 'chaired up under your chin, but too small to bore any which way.
  6. Burnham

    First Coos Bay cut and dealing with broken limbs

    Best choice for heavy lean red alders, by a very wide margin. Those nasties LOVE to split and barberchair on you, worse than any other species I have cut. If they are big enough, which frequently is not the case, a bored back cut works a treat as well, unless the lean is extreme.
  7. Burnham

    First Coos Bay cut and dealing with broken limbs

    Indeed.
  8. Burnham

    First Coos Bay cut and dealing with broken limbs

    The same sad story that fallers have told since people decided to stop wildfires, eh? Ye gods, the magnificent oldgrowth Ponderosa pine I have laid into the hot side of the line, in my times on fire duty. And I'm not talking 24"...more like +48". But we worked a different ecotype, me and...
  9. Burnham

    First Coos Bay cut and dealing with broken limbs

    And steep, and covered with slash, and it's way after dark, and that snag over there is taller than I can see to, and... Been there too, as you might guess :D.
  10. Burnham

    First Coos Bay cut and dealing with broken limbs

    Word, brothers...from the master :). I look at the Coos Bay felling cut (emphasis on felling here, Jerry's mention of it's employ on limbs, for a climber, are valuable input without a doubt) as an extreme technique to be employed in extreme situations of heavy head lean. I might have used it a...
  11. Burnham

    First Coos Bay cut and dealing with broken limbs

    One has to be very careful about even the tiniest amount of "pre-cutting" on a tree than calls for a Coos Bay felling cut. By definition, they want to 'chair at the slightest provocation. Better, in my book, to go at them fast and furious, no second thoughts, slap the side cuts in and hit the...
  12. Burnham

    First Coos Bay cut and dealing with broken limbs

    Consider yourself lucky.
  13. Burnham

    First Coos Bay cut and dealing with broken limbs

    And that would be?
  14. Burnham

    First Coos Bay cut and dealing with broken limbs

    Good post, Cfaller. USFS cutter, might I assume?
  15. Burnham

    First Coos Bay cut and dealing with broken limbs

    Always aim the Coos Bay directly to the head lean, any other way and you most likely will be bound when you make the side cut on the side that is to the lean. If that isn't the direction you can lay the tree to, the Coos Bay isn't the felling cut to make. You really should stay in the hole a...
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