Falling pics 11/25/09

[Meadow Beaver]

and the third time's a charm.....da ta da da daaaa....here is the link. YouTube - High Banking a Doug Fir

Didn't want to lug around the 880? lol

 

[forestryworks]

sweet, thanks man, I'm gonna give that a try on Thursday

you tryin to do a humboldt cut? practice, practice, practice.

my first attempt at a humboldt looked like a 7r. old took a hatchet to the stump. ended up losing the tree to the offside lol.

thank god the fire burned that stump down. Jeez!

 

[forestryworks]

and the third time's a charm.....da ta da da daaaa....here is the link. YouTube - High Banking a Doug Fir

How many years you been cuttin' now, Pat?

 

[Sport Faller]

you tryin to do a humboldt cut? practice, practice, practice.

my first attempt at a humboldt looked like a 7r. old took a hatchet to the stump. ended up losing the tree to the offside lol.

thank god the fire burned that stump down. Jeez!

yeah, getting the intersection to hit just right on the offside is a B, this one somehow went where I wanted it to (fell it into one that was leaning very heavily and they both came down which may or may not techically be my first domino fall) but it was sketchy as hell

 

[Metals406]

yeah, getting the intersection to hit just right on the offside is a B, this one somehow went where I wanted it to (fell it into one that was leaning very heavily and they both came down which may or may not techically be my first domino fall) but it was sketchy as hell

Don't get hurt! Your wife'll get pissed! :msp_razz:

 

[forestryworks]

yeah, getting the intersection to hit just right on the offside is a B, this one somehow went where I wanted it to (fell it into one that was leaning very heavily and they both came down which may or may not techically be my first domino fall) but it was sketchy as hell

the main thing to remember on your face cuts, is if they don't match up, don't keep cutting or you will change the gun and the depth of your face, giving you an unintended effect that you may not be aware of.

always use your sights. sight in when doing your gun cut (top cut), pick a spot out into the lay to remember, then as you're doing the diagonal, watch your sights again, stop cutting when the sights line up to what you gunned on your top cut.

if they don't meet, take an axe and pop it out and then inspect and see if you can cut more or make any adjustments.

always carry an axe and not some sissy hammer.

 

[Greenwedge]

Didn't want to lug around the 880? lol

I smashed it about 2 weeks ago.

 

[Greenwedge]

How many years you been cuttin' now, Pat?

Off on on for 18 yrs. More on than off.

 

[forestryworks]

Pat, how many years have you been falling timber now?

 

[Metals406]

I smashed it about 2 weeks ago.

That blows! Anything salvageable?

 

[Greenwedge]

Pat, how many years have you been falling timber now?

My dad broke me in when I was 18 and I'm 38 now so that would make it ...........20....subtract a year for I just turned 38 so now we are at 19, subtract a couple more years due to beer drinking chasing women raising hell and bad decisions. Now we are at 17....Hell, we better subtract seven more years cause 17 years experience makes me seem to damn old and no one will believe it anyway due youthful, and let's not forget handsome appearance, so I guess we'll call er square at 10. No....wait a minute, I was closer to 19 when the old man started teaching me the ways of the busheler so that leaves us a 9!

 

[Greenwedge]

That blows! Anything salvageable?

Yeah....I just need to get to piece'n er back together.

 

[Sport Faller]

Don't get hurt! Your wife'll get pissed! :msp_razz:

I try to be safe and wear PPE (she made me promise to wear chaps and a hard hat), I just need me some practice

 

[forestryworks]

Damn I just realized I posted the same question twice. :monkey:

I gotta get outta this borehole of a town lol.

 

[Sport Faller]

the main thing to remember on your face cuts, is if they don't match up, don't keep cutting or you will change the gun and the depth of your face, giving you an unintended effect that you may not be aware of.

always use your sights. sight in when doing your gun cut (top cut), pick a spot out into the lay to remember, then as you're doing the diagonal, watch your sights again, stop cutting when the sights line up to what you gunned on your top cut.

if they don't meet, take an axe and pop it out and then inspect and see if you can cut more or make any adjustments.

always carry an axe and not some sissy hammer.

I really appreciate you and Nate and everybody else here helping me not get squashed


You caught me red handed with the sissy hammer (cellphone for scale)

 

[Metals406]

Yeah....I just need to get to piece'n er back together.

Part out Cody's 88! :hmm3grin2orange:

 

[madhatte]

Before you start cutting, wrap the tree with tape (once around). Make sure it's level. Cut below the tape and use it as a guide for your cuts. This is just one trick of many. . . Give it a try.

I love simple, effective training aids like that. Think I'll use it the next time we're running an S-212 class and somebody's afraid of the saw. The lines we cut are imaginary until we commit chain to wood... this makes the lines slightly less imaginary, and helps visualize them in advance.

Greenwedge: hot DAMN that chain's hungry! Don't s'pose you'd share angles and such with us, the Less Worthy?

 

[Greenwedge]

Damn I just realized I posted the same question twice. :monkey:

I gotta get outta this borehole of a town lol.

Don't worry about it pard. Chainsaws vibrate brain cells to sleep.
Don't worry about it pard. Chainsaws vibrate brain cells to sleep.
Don't worry about it pard. Chainsaws vibrate brain cells to sleep.
Don't worry about it pard. Chainsaws vibrate brain cells to sleep.
Don't worry about it pard. Chainsaws vibrate brain cells to sleep.
Don't worry about it pard. Chainsaws vibrate brain cells to sleep.
Don't worry about it pard. Chainsaws vibrate brain cells to sleep.
Don't worry about it pard. Chainsaws vibrate brain cells to sleep.
Don't worry about it pard. Chainsaws vibrate brain cells to sleep.

 

[Spotted Owl]

What the heck is that thing? Holy smokes if I showed up with somethin like that bull would make me sit in the truck as not to embarrass him.

Just poke'n ya.

Get one and you'll be surprised how often you use a 5 pounder. Only down fall is that a new 5 with a good wedge head is gonna set ya back about 60+ bucks right now. Just got one for the boy and it rang up right at 70 with shipping. Nothing good close to home, so we call Madsens.

Nother tip you may already know about. Use your sights like said before the use your tapes to check you sighting. Push the nail in each side of your face tight in the corners just between the wood and bark, then hold them at the same foot mark on top of each other. sight down that triangle and that's right close to where the lay is gonna be. if the tapes and your gunning match up good on ya, if not it will show which way you lean when you cut and you can compensate from then on. In big stuff I keep a string with nails in my bag tied up and ready to sight in with. I have trouble gunning accurate in big wood so I use my strings a bit more than I probably should need to, but it works for me.



Owl

 

[Meadow Beaver]

I smashed it about 2 weeks ago.

Dang that sucks, what happened? Is the tank still good?