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  1. stig

    question for stig short bar technique for open face or conventional notch

    Pushing the envelope, there. Nice. I hope you cut that huge burl off and gave it to a woodturner.
  2. stig

    question for stig short bar technique for open face or conventional notch

    Not the finished cut, but the fact that you had to recut/clean out the far side of the cut. What I try to get my apprentices to do, is get those cuts right every time, to avoid the waste of time in cleaning them up. But like you said, doesn't matter a whit outside production falling. I was...
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    question for stig short bar technique for open face or conventional notch

    Just to make sure I got my point across to everybody: It doesn't matter much in the middle of the face cut IF YOU GUT THE HINGE!
  4. stig

    question for stig short bar technique for open face or conventional notch

    One thing. If you gut the hinge, it doesn't much matter what the middle of the facecut looks like. Unintended Dutchman, scallopping, whatever. As long as the corners are cleanly cut, the middle doesn't matter. So on a large tree, where I'm really overextending my bar reach ( usually because I...
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    question for stig short bar technique for open face or conventional notch

    Some of keep up with the latest developement in saws. My MS462 is WAY lighter than some of those antedeluvian saws that you run.:P I use your reach around method a lot ( Hmmmmmmm...... just had a "Full metal jacket" flashback:lol:) but on the low facecuts on becch where we are cutting in the...
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    question for stig short bar technique for open face or conventional notch

    Agreed. Burnham's method shines on really steep ground. We don't have much of that around here.
  7. stig

    question for stig short bar technique for open face or conventional notch

    I don't have a method as such. Making as many face cuts as I do and being careful about matching cuts, makes it second nature.
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    question for stig short bar technique for open face or conventional notch

    I'm not sure I understand the question. I finish both top and bottom cuts on one side, then walk across and do the same on the other side.
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