Basic cuts - description and pictures?

[silverzuk]

I am curious to a source to see basic cuts and descriptions.
I don't do it for a living, I know some basic cuts for falling cutting. I can get the "easy trees" to hit where I want. I don't cut difficult ones because I'm just cutting firewood and clearing 40 year old growth into pasture.

All that I have learned, I have learned from people showing.
I have been taught wrong in the past and corrected.

Is there a guide basic cuts for industry?
How about what not to do (stump jumping, etc.)?

 

[silverzuk]

Here is a website explaining some of what I am looking for.

http://www.osha.gov/SLTC/etools/logging/manual/felling/cuts/notches.html

 

[Phramer Phil]

Hey Zuk, recognize your name from Pirate4x4, I post as Philfab over there.

The OSHA website is a good start, what else are you looking for?

 

[silverzuk]

Hey Zuk, recognize your name from Pirate4x4, I post as Philfab over there.

The OSHA website is a good start, what else are you looking for?

Pictures and descriptions of types of cuts.

I have some acquantenances in the logging business. They talk about running the bar into the tree and "cutting from the inside out".
Also, "leaving a strap of wood on the outside until you are ready for it to go".

Standing around drinking beer with these guys, I ask them and they try to describe. I'd just like to see what they are actually talking about.
Most of these guys aren't great communicators, they grew up in the woods and on farms. It is hard for me to visualize.

 

[newsawtooth]

If you can get it, this book is the preeminent source on falling. None before or after have talked as intelligently and succinctly as Mr. Dent about using power saws.

D. Douglas Dent
Professional Timber Falling: A Procedural Approach.

http://www.amazon.com/Professional-Timber-Falling-Procedural-Douglas/dp/1299184081

 

[matt9923]

If you can get it, this book is the preeminent source on falling. None before or after have talked as intelligently and succinctly as Mr. Dent about using power saws.

D. Douglas Dent
Professional Timber Falling: A Procedural Approach.

http://www.amazon.com/Professional-Timber-Falling-Procedural-Douglas/dp/1299184081

great book to have around, Get it form Baileys or other sponsor

although I don't see it on there?

 

[silverzuk]

great book to have around, Get it form Baileys or other sponsor

although I don't see it on there?

Oddly, the lowest price amazon ad for a new book is from Baileys.
I checked their site first and didn't see it either.

Thanks for the book. That should help a lot.

 

[secondscene]

Running the bar into the tree equates to a bore cut and is exactly as it sounds. Used to set the hinge and virtually eliminate barber chairing. Just imagine running the bar horizontal through the tree then pulling it back out. Your left with a rectangular box cut.

Leaving a strap is almost as it sounds. It can be used to control the speed of the fall and to some part directionality. Often if a tree has a slight right lean and I would like to put it to the left somewhat, I make my bore cut, set the hinge and then opposite the lean I leave a small back strip of wood. You can cut below this strip to release the tree. Again in the case of a right leaning tree I will cut from the right(below the strip that has been left)to allow the left side wood to hold the longest, thus slightly turning the tree.

 

[palogger]

Running the bar into the tree equates to a bore cut and is exactly as it sounds. Used to set the hinge and virtually eliminate barber chairing. Just imagine running the bar horizontal through the tree then pulling it back out. Your left with a rectangular box cut.

Leaving a strap is almost as it sounds. It can be used to control the speed of the fall and to some part directionality. Often if a tree has a slight right lean and I would like to put it to the left somewhat, I make my bore cut, set the hinge and then opposite the lean I leave a small back strip of wood. You can cut below this strip to release the tree. Again in the case of a right leaning tree I will cut from the right(below the strip that has been left)to allow the left side wood to hold the longest, thus slightly turning the tree.

Using a bore cut will not always eliminate a barberchair, that is if a bore cut is used and the hinge is left to thick there is still the possibility of barberchair

 

[silverzuk]

Thanks for the info.
I would like to go for a day with someone that knows how to cut timber just to learn and see how to do it.
I've cut with one guy that claimed to have been a logger. After cutting about an hour, I could see why he is no longer working as a logger.

 

[treeslayer]

how far are you from Loudoun county?

 

[tubedyota]

I am curious to a source to see basic cuts and descriptions.
I don't do it for a living, I know some basic cuts for falling cutting. I can get the "easy trees" to hit where I want. I don't cut difficult ones because I'm just cutting firewood and clearing 40 year old growth into pasture.

All that I have learned, I have learned from people showing.
I have been taught wrong in the past and corrected.

Is there a guide basic cuts for industry?
How about what not to do (stump jumping, etc.)?

go to a husky shop and ask for the book put out by husky called "working with a chainsaw" my local shop gave me this book and it has a lot of useful info on techniques, safety, felling cuts, limbing, alot of the basic to advanced stuff u might need to know along with great illustrations.