Not for me.
The time you assess what's going on, it's finished. No clue about the before nor the after. You know almost nothing about the job and it's conditions, the constraints, what's involved ... then BAM, that's all folks!
I find that extremely deceptive.
It's like a stop at the stand in a F1 racing. The crew performing its task is really impressive to see, but it's an awfully too short bit to tell the story of the race.
7 " ? Nah...
Interesting opinion... the more so because it would seem to diverge from the status quo. I'm only taking what you say into consideration beacause of your beautiful pit-stop, glory-hound analogy, and (at least on that point) I would have to say that I perfectly agree. That, and I'm a bit of a Rousseauphile, and have a deep regard for Pascal. I really appreciate brevity in tree videos, but I definately want to get away from my (I'm ashamed to confess, deeply engrained) glory-hound tendencies.
Corey: Dude. Rock climbing sucks... Man, when I went bouldering with my daughter, I thought, "Oh yeah... I'm gonna own this cause I climb trees all day long." WRONG!!! I think I did a V3 after my third trip to the gym.
My daughter routinely does V 5's. Good for my new "anti-glory-hound," aspirations.
Rich/Butch: Thanks. Yeah... I wanna definitely keep em short.
Pete: Guys like you are one of the main reasons I love the Treehouse. I've never fallen a Beach tree in my life.
High Scale: Rad pics. I've never seen a stump like that in my life. I dare say it would work in a Beach. The only west coaster I know of who would ever raise his back cut that high is Burnham. I learn something new on here every time I log in.
Jed, do you use a double-bit ax for splitting?
IME, they are for clean chopping on one side, dirty chopping on the other. One razor sharp, one sharp. Neither side for splitting.
No, I get yer opinion fer sure, but... I used to think Buckin Billy Ray was out of his mind... and I still do in 60% of the Fir that a guy is likely to get home. However... in that other 40%... man a double-bit is so wicked thin and light and long (head-speed) that I guy can put the hurt on a TON of wood fast, if it's the straight, clear-grain stuff that we all covet, but for the rest of the nastier stuff... I'll stick with a Fiskers X27, or even just a Home Depot, yellow chineese maul. I'm all about trying to incorporate different axes with different cheek profiles now too though. The right tool fer the job, ya know... Ohh... also... I'm really ashamed to admit it, but I think I'm a composite (handle) guy too. I love to reach over, and I don't wanna worry about my precious hicory haft. I do like using Hickory a ton better though too sometimes. I am a true weirdo.
Also: re the double bit... the "flick," is fer real.
