I will add that what I mentioned about leaving a small step so as to keep a flat butt is definetly not recommended and around here you can get fined for it. I could see no reason to be doing this or trying to do this in residential treework. And I'm in no way recommending that people do this...
Certainly, but you only fall uphill around here if you absolutely have to. 90% of it you lay crossways on the hill (remember I was a yarder guy so there was always a hill) and the humboldt is used for the flat butt.
I think it's mainly for production falling, atleast as I've known it. You cut a humboldt and you cheat on your step and keep it small and you end up with a flush flat but which doesn't need to have a snipe cut off of it. You're supposed to leave a two inch 'step' but any buckerman I've ever...
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