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Ya, no kidding. This sounds a lot different that what Duane told me. Somehow, hard leaning alders were not common for us at SPs, where he could show me. The Coos Bay was new to him, and was he a disbeliever. I don't know if he gave it any more of a chance from his experiments one tipped over...

A picture would be great.

Duane, at SP, PNW treeman since his teens, told me not to fall them to the lean, take it sideways some. And use a razor chain. He did some alder logging round here, amongst other things. Keeps the log. The hard leaning CB'ed one still split a bit. Maybe what NGDave speaks of. Stig, do you...

I had a bunch of bent over alders today, Coos Bay away.

Good to hear the work can ease up this winter. I'm hoping for a more restful winter than normal, and spending part it with Little D doing fun stuff, and hopefully part of it turning and working wood.

Thanks for sharing, CL. Damn straight, Chris. Our neighbors raised their kids with wood heat. At the time the kids didn't like it, but did it as life on the farm. Now the older daughter is a hard working berry farmer and mother, the other a successful cattle industry person. Hard work was...

Hey, Willy. I think that the other one here, SOTC, is Willie.

Seems like a slight kerf around the trunk to start will align your side cuts with the holding wood of the strip to prevent re-cutting side wood. I've only used it a bit.

Welcome to the House,Cfaller, got a first name? I'm Sean, in Olympia, WA, and am self-employed, having worked on some Gov't projects directly and indirectly over a couple of years.

From the stump before and after the trunk is freed, it looked like you cut the tension wood as you came around to the second side. Am I reading that right? I am with Peter. I'm taking the narrow face meaning that the face will close, the hinge will pop, and it will fail sideways to the...