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GOL teaches the open face, angled cut of notch first, then plunged back cut and back release.. To answer Butch's question... " I don't get it. Why not make the bottom cut right, to start with?" There are a number of reasons.. I thought we've been through this already... lots of advantages...

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The gutted the hinge and pulled her over with the skid steer.. I've thought about Stig's point that when gutting the hinge bypass in the face cuts doesn;t matter so much, but still like to cut a perfectly clean face.. This was a 2600 job with exactly this one falling cut to be made. As such I...

These pics show the final cuts made and clean out of the second half of the notch

As stated above I didn't plunge a vertical bisecting cut in the notch, because of a defect in the maple, this first pie cut fell out on its own. Normally I cut it out to open up the view. Second pic here shows the finished first half of the bisected notch. The lower plate cut has been removed...

Here's a few pics from yesterday's sugar maple... Same issue as stig mentioned in his above post, cutting into the root flare makes it harder to perform per Dr B's instructions.. And on this one there was actually a defect in the wood that caused a piece to fall out by itself, taking out the...

That's the way I've been doing it very similar with just a few Variations to make it easier I had a perfect opportunity today to try doctor b's technique but passed on it as I was down in the trunk flare and a just seemed easier to cut from both sides and bisect the noche which I have pictures...

Nice description... Thank you Dr B... Seems like the main problem I was having had to do with cutting the angled cut first. I was originally trained to cut the horizontal cut first, but once I learned the GOL method, I almost exclusively cut traditionals or open faces with the angled cut...

OK, that makes sense.. do you have any methods for lining up the cuts or is it just by experience. I make the angled cut first so sometimes have trouble making both angled cuts level.. Perhaps this is one situation where its better to make the level cut first... if the bar is shorter by just a...

Here's the bisecting cut and the angled cut from the open face

Stig, how do you recommend cutting a conventional or open face when the bar is shorter than the hinge? This is a co-dom white oak that we had to rip the crotch down to about 3' height to get the first lead down.. Notch was cut clean, but it wasn't pretty getting there.... Ended up...