What? The block, cheese, pie, undercut? Lot of names for it, but never heard of slice. I bored, pryed, split, sawed, whittled, kicked and cussed to get them out. Of course. All standard procedure.
With gnarly, twisted and defect stumps I face the tree higher up to avoid all the problems those things present. Then cut the stump down after the fall. The foresters will get on your case if you don't.
Stump height polices here dictate that no stump shall be greater than 12 inches when...
As FW said. Traditionally splitting it out is the way to go. As it leaves true and contiguous grain at the hinge for the tree to pull. Boring the corners to get the block out can interrupt the continuity of the grain and present a host of problems.
With that said I will add that in...
Stock saws are purposely tuned down to hold the manufactures warranty. And from my experience, any manufactures warranties on mod saws are generally void.
The obligation of the faller to limb the tree in the brush and just how well of a job they do varies quite a bit, Stig. In the smaller timber nowadays it's becoming more mechanized and the limbing and bucking is being done more on the landing by machines. Tree length shows we call them. On...
Yes, Jay. And in conjunction with a snipe the holding time, or delay in the face closing, will be increased. The deeper the snipe is sawn in the more delay there will be when we use a gap. The reason why is because the planes of the undercut and diagonal cut do not meet at the apex of the...
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