45 minutes, 100.00

[ray benson]

Thall, I think your just pulling our legs. Havin some fun at our expense. That is not an approved method. Only references to that method I found said it was a poor practice and slipshod. As others have stated, if the trees lean has been misjudged, wedging is a real problem. In such a case the wedge pushes the tree instead of lifting.

 

[joatmon]

Mr. Hall goes to make a fast buck,
But he makes a funny back cut,
Now please cut it straight,
Before it's too late,
And ole Tom runs outta good luck.

 

[belgian]

Mr. Hall goes to make a fast buck,
But he makes a funny back cut,
Now please cut it straight,
Before it's too late,
And ole Tom runs outta good luck.

 

[Lakeside53]

+10

O.K. Elvis.. sing that one ..opcorn:

 

[SawTroll]

Thall, I think your just pulling our legs. Havin some fun at our expense. .....

The same thought has struck me also.........:biggrinbounce2:

 

[joatmon]

+10

O.K. Elvis.. sing that one ..opcorn:

Tom took his trusty old Stihl,
made a hundred dollars for real,
backcut at 45,
lucky to be alive,
cut at 90 so the bells do not peal.

 

[Lakeside53]

STOP STOP STOP :hmm3grin2orange: :hmm3grin2orange: :hmm3grin2orange: :hmm3grin2orange:

 

[bwalker]

Tom, PM your address and I will send you a copy Of Dent's book. When your done you can send it back.
Your going to get hurt sooner or latter falling trees like that.

 

[joatmon]

STOP STOP STOP :hmm3grin2orange: :hmm3grin2orange: :hmm3grin2orange: :hmm3grin2orange:

Tom took his oh sixty four,
with its lovely deep throated roar,
cut down the oak tree,
posted pics so we see,
hope this doesn't make him sore.

 

[Lakeside53]

ARRRRRGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

 

[Gologit]

There are worse things than a bad back cut!

LOL...Like a guy that does one on purpose just 'cause he knows it'll drive us all nuts? If it hadn't been for the goofy back cut it would have been just another ho-hum tree on the ground picture. Tom got us good!
One thing to think about...with a deep enough face and an angled back-cut you can get a barber-chair from the face if the wind sets the tree back on the back cut. Then things just kind of explode and the tree goes where you really don't want it. Don't ask me how I know this LOL.

 

[Tzed250]

Seen plenty of logging sites where the stumps looked just like that:hmm3grin2orange:

 

[Lakeside53]

There are worse things than a bad back cut!

Yep.. the endless rhymes that get stuck in my head:biggrinbounce2:

 

[joatmon]

Yep.. the endless rhymes that get stuck in my head:biggrinbounce2:

Ah.... sorry.

Been 10 days without cuttin' on something. I was normal before this site. Really. You do believe me. Right?

 

[GASoline71]

HAHAHAHA!

Tom old buddy... glad your sense of humor shines through.

...and the rhymes are killin' me... HAHAHA!

Gary

 

[belgian]

ARRRRRGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Dayuuuuum , and we were worried that Thall was gonna get hurt, and now poor Lake is gonna get a heart attack :hmm3grin2orange: :hmm3grin2orange:

 

[Lakeside53]

Someone stop the music in my head...

 

[joatmon]

Someone stop the music in my head...

OK. OK. Give me a clue. Backoff the L or LA?

 

[vapnut257]

Thall, I think your just pulling our legs. Havin some fun at our expense.

Now if this is true, what am I to think, when just a few post ago I asked why such a back cut was dangerous? I was a pulling on a tag line for a tree cutter that made a back cut like that. The tree barber chaired and fell right slam through the owners shed, splitting it in half! (he also made too shallow a directional cut) When the thing started to go, all the cutter could do was to hollar for us holding the tag line to PULL! which didn't make no difference at all. I dropped the line and went a running the other way. But now I'm being led to believe, by somebody I so admire, that this practice is acceptable? I'll just sit back and see if I can learn from some these comments. opcorn:

 

[Woodie]

Someone stop the music in my head...

Best way to stop that Lake is to replace it with something else:

So, is the 455 Rancher really the best milling saw?