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Well there's a roaring joke if ever I heard one. But a midget standing on the shoulders of you giants, I will always steadfastly remain. REALLY, really good to read ya again Stig. It's been a little while. But my sanity is returning, and I must reamain in the House!

I know... that's weird.

Not all beavers have 064's. :(

I vehemently disagree, Stig. Case in point?... today's job. The City of Bellevue hired me to fall a Cottonwood that the first faller apparently couldn't handle. Here's his ATTEMPTED stump... He's obviously a West Coast beaver as exibited by his very low Humboldt; but just LOOK at how...

Yeah, I guess that's what Burnham means by his avatar quote. Something about confidence engendered by not fully understanding the situation.

Thanks so much for the reference Jer: I really needed to re-read those pages anyway. I don't know if it's the smell of the paper or the weight of the thing in my hand or--what is more likely--the astonishing photographs, but I just "get something" out of that book that is simply just not...

Thanks Jer: But why didn't you put that in your book?!!!! Bad hero!!

Got it! Will try it. God willing!

"Stump Forensics." Beautiful term Stig!!! I think we need a stump forensics thread that feature the shots of all of you guys intelligent enough to be able to post pictures of stumps that stump you. I know I've had a few over the years. By the way guys: as regards the quarter cut--so you...

Stig: That's not "hard for me to credit" at all. I have only MET THREE COMMERCIAL FALLERS IN MY ENTIRE LIFE!!! [Willie: I'm talking about: 1) Jerry at Flipfest. 2) Max Evans 3) Max's buddy--now out of work--we ran into while buying tree stakes in Home Depo]

Verrrry funny CurSedVoyce. Burnham: Thanks so much for your longish post on P. 19. Really, really good, illuminating stuff for a res. arbo. type. You and Stig would laugh at the thought of my thinking that I knew everything there was to know about the wedging procedure, and yet never even...

This thread is so over my head, it's scary!

No critique here! That's the prettiest stump I've seen in a while. Do you align your back cut by eye when kneeling?

I tend to agree Bounce and squisher. "Anything worth doin's worth doin' right." Etc.

Exactly..... we usually end up piecing everything down super small unless it's screaming toward the lay. I'll remember the beaver comment!

Hey: Thanks a ton Burnham. Point taken: there's a lot to be said for good ol' ergonomic fluidity in this work. I can only imagine how hard you would have to work with the axe if you had tried to cut a gap into the face and that same Huckleberry-twig-included branch had been running through...

I guess I was understanding "stump shot" as being: any part of the stump that "backs-up" any part of the log during the fall. (Something tells me that right now you're thinking, "I've already responded to this question about a hundred and fifty times.") It seems to me that a one inch gap...

How could you be sorry after an ordeal like that??!! Thank God you're better. Thanks a lot for the comprehensive response.

Burnham: I'm not familiar with your felling techniques, but, I know that I would have heaps to learn from you. I've still got one question: why wouldn't you use a gapped Humboldt to acquire stump-shot instead of that very high--difficult to wedge--back cut?