Choir practice at the saw shop

[Gologit]

My favorite saw shop is kind of a gathering place for a lot of the local guys that work in the woods. There's always a big urn of coffee going, donuts or cookies lying around, and sometimes an adult beverage or two after quitting time.

Yesterday there was quite an argument going on. We have some guys working down here on a ROW project and they're a bunch of foreigners...they're all from Colorado and Idaho. They're a good bunch, though...just kinda different.

They were talking about cutting Humboldt faces and some of them make the slanting cut first, and then the straight cut afterwards. The ones who did it the other way around of course gave the first group a whole ration of crap about doing things backward. A few of us locals chimed in and I was surprised at how many use the slant cut first method. I've done both but, just out of habit, I usually make the straight cut first. No real reason, it was just the way I was taught.

Anybody else out there that prefers the slant cut first?

 

[slowp]

I'm doing upside down humboldts because we want real low stumps. And yes, I'm slanting first. Because I am a beginner, sometimes I'm having to neaten up my cuts. Slant first on the upside down ones!! I shall be obnoxious. Please.:smile2:

Note: We haven't found a big enough tree for a bore cut yet.

 

[Joe46]

Nope. Never did. I have started my backcut on leaners so I could get a wedge or two in however.

 

[lfnh]

Gunning first for any face.
Back leaners, as Joe46 said.

 

[2dogs]

Gunning cut first.

 

[dave k]

Now this is where difference in terms can confuse ! so I do the base, gunning ?, of my face first then the slant down down or up ! depending on if Im doing one of our normal cuts or one of your funny Humbolts ! On a very small tree I tend to do the reverse so I can't go to far with the base cut and not leave enough for a good hinge.

 

[RandyMac]

Gunning cut, always.

Hey Joe!!
Up in the in the Sierras, you should have seen the looks on the guys when I backcut and wedged a big Cedar. They thought I had gone off the edge.

 

[Metals406]

I always buck the tree first, then fall it.

 

[brokenbudget]

I always buck the tree first, then fall it.

form top to bottom or bottom to top?:hmm3grin2orange:

 

[Metals406]

form top to bottom or bottom to top?:hmm3grin2orange:

I go both ways. . . *ba-dum-TSH*

Thank you, thank you, I'll be here all night. :biggrin:

 

[forestryworks]

Undercut first.

You can't re-adjust to the lay if you do humboldt first.

 

[brokenbudget]

I go both ways. . . *ba-dum-TSH*

Thank you, thank you, I'll be here all night. :biggrin:

i usualy start from the middle:jester:

 

[Joe46]

Gunning cut, always.

Hey Joe!!
Up in the in the Sierras, you should have seen the looks on the guys when I backcut and wedged a big Cedar. They thought I had gone off the edge.

LOL. Sometimes it's your only choice.I watched a guy(who considered himself quite faller) lay a big fir on top of his car. Actually the fir pretty much made all the way to the ground with his car sticking out each side. He lost it over backwards. I mentioned to him about starting his back cut first. I didn't mention about moving his car:hmm3grin2orange:

 

[slowp]

An important announcement to choir members.

I was installing the kayak racks on my pickup today. I was using a sparkplug socket but that was not long enough. I have an old bar wrench that has a long thingy on it. It is made for basic bar nuts on one side, and has a smaller thing on the other. The big side fits the rack nuts perfectly. The small one fits the nuts that hold on the kayak holders. What a discovery! It saved me a trip to the hardware store.

I am tired of assembling things.

I have to lay down on the ground and look up at trees before cutting them because I am merely a B Bucker....:msp_rolleyes:

 

[RandyMac]

I hear ya on the assembling of things, just put the grill and bumpers on the screaming yellow zonker. Peeled up bumper chrome is sharp.

sweetp, you might be a B bucker, but I am A feller.

 

[slowp]

Did the rat dogs "help" you? I had the Grapple Cat annoying me during my assembly process. If he could only find the other spray skirt...

 

[hammerlogging]

Thinking about it I have to say I do the top cut first, whether its the downward on a conventional or open face or the horizontal on a humbolt