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Richard, my South African partner, will pull that one out if he loses a tree in the woods. Being used to the Southern hemisphere, the coriolis effect workes against him, here.

When I came from almost totally flat little Denmark and started logging in the mountains of Switzerland, the first trees i felled just went whichever way they felt like. Switzerland being a lot more to the south than Denmark, of course I initially blamed that on the coriolis effect. Then I...

You're right. If you don't get it right first time, you'll have to redo it. The trick is of course to get it right first time. Constant practise will take care of that. At first when I started falling, I couldn't hit for shit, but eventually I got better. I still religiously checked each and...

If you make a traditional undercut ( as opposed to a Humboldt) and do the 45 degree cut first, you don't have that problem, since you can simply set the bar into the cut made from the first side of the tree, when you go around to do the other side. Something I wonder, is the whole gunning thing...

I don't use the sights at all. I trained myself to putting trees into the lay by just looking in the direction I want them to fall, then the saw lines up automatically. Like when you shoot a handgun at something by pointing it, without looking over the sights. I learned this in the 70es, before...