checking down big wood

[Live Oak]

I would like to know each of your personal favorite cut when but checking down big wood. snap cut, notch & backcut, straight through,tag line?

 

[Tree Pig]

Are you referring to clunking or taking stalk down in small controllable pieces. If so then snap cut most of the time.

 

[Live Oak]

snap cut

do you use a tag line?

 

[jomoco]

There always comes a point when snapcuts end and pies get cut to facilitate getting the wood to go where you want it to, mind over brute strength saves precious energy, particularly chunking big wood on a live wet spar of euc.

jomoco

 

[2FatGuys]

It's difficult to say "most of the time". I use which ever fits the situation best. Some wood needs to be notched and folded, others just snap-cut. Tag line depends on whether trying to fall away from lean or weight of piece being removed. This work is so "situational" that you need experience with ALL methods and the common sense to know when to use each.

 

[treemandan]

Variety is the spice of life that is what I told my wife.

 

[Tree Pig]

I very seldom use a tag on stuff I am chunking maybe on a bigger piece that I am notching and backcut or a piece that is too big or heavy to snap cut... but for me that would be one big piece.

 

[Tree Pig]

There always comes a point when snapcuts end and pies get cut to facilitate getting the wood to go where you want it to, mind over brute strength saves precious energy, particularly chunking big wood on a live wet spar of euc.

jomoco

now thats a good size piece. How often are you really doing stuff that size. Snapcut is more often then not acceptable.

 

[treemandan]

No, that is a snap. On the top of the falling piece you see the shallow face cut then the higher deeper back cut. You see J has made his snap cut with mininal distance above the face cut. Looks like Sycmaore? Good thinking. At the point that you see in the picture you see that he has allready finshed the cut, stowed the saw, broke it off, gave it a nudge and now he is sitting back watching it fall... on one TIP. Smooth J, well not too... smooth that is. No offense but do you sharpen your razors on the belt too?:jawdrop:

 

[Live Oak]

I agree with the snapcut. when i rig a piece down that size or bigger i have my ground crew pull it over after i remove my saw most times though.

 

[Live Oak]

No, that is a snap. On the top of the falling piece you see the shallow face cut then the higher deeper back cut. You see J has made his snap cut with mininal distance above the face cut. Looks like Sycmaore? Good thinking. At the point that you see in the picture you see that he has allready finshed the cut, stowed the saw, broke it off, gave it a nudge and now he is sitting back watching it fall... on one TIP. Smooth J, well not too... smooth that is. No offense but do you sharpen your razors on the belt too?:jawdrop:

cutting & throwing is one thing; i was asking about rigging.

 

[Tree Pig]

cutting & throwing is one thing; i was asking about rigging.

Thats a whole different story. I usually only use snap cut when I am cutting and throwing pieces down. If I am rigging it down then usually notched or cut straight through.

 

[treejock1]

If your lowering the chunks I would suggest folding them over to lessin the shock load a bit and not have them bounce uncontrollably.

 

[Live Oak]

If your lowering the chunks I would suggest folding them over to lessin the shock load a bit and not have them bounce uncontrollably.

So far so good. appreciate the advice. I've had to false crotch down many straight but logs having a ground man pull the cut over & aground man the rigging below me. honestly finding this site yesterday has been great because I was beginning to think we were running out of climbers. At least around Detroit anyway.

 

[tomtrees58]

tom trees

 

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[Live Oak]

nice picture. did that cut hit the driveway?

 

[Adkpk]

There always comes a point when snapcuts end and pies get cut to facilitate getting the wood to go where you want it to, mind over brute strength saves precious energy, particularly chunking big wood on a live wet spar of euc.

jomoco

Nice pic. What's the red on your thigh, climbing chaps? You look dressed warm for somewhere so south?

 

[tomtrees58]

nice picture. did that cut hit the driveway?

no pulled it back on the wood tom