Falling pics 11/25/09

[Metals406]

It is a Techlite and a 28" -- the saw was new a few days before the video.

His 575 will get the mothballs.

 

[Eccentric]

It is a Techlite and a 28" -- the saw was new a few days before the video.

His 575 will get the mothballs.

Good to hear. I wasn't aware that Husqvarna was selling Techlites again. They're not on the Husky website yet. Funny that bar looked longer than 28" to me in the video.

 

[Gypo Logger]

 

[tramp bushler]

I usually have the cat bump over the ones I am not willing to cut. My brains ain't got ROPS/FOPS!

I usually have the cat bump over the ones I am not willing to cut. My brains ain't got ROPS/FOPS!

I had one of my dozer bosses in the cab of Olga with me one afternoon , he was little and flexible enuf , and the cab was big enough so I could stuff him behind the seat . He hadnt run a dozer before ao he got to see things from my pov. A new road had just been pushed in down a ridge thru hard black and I was giving him a ride up to get his 4wheeler. . He had told me to get any bad looking snags I saw so I figured Ide kill 2 birds with 1 rock. 3 actually. . The 5H Grapple is wwll set up for getting out on piles and rootin around. . Lot of clearence from the belly to the ground. . He qas like a kid at a carnival ! . granted none of the trees were over 16" dbh. . After 1 particularly fun multi tree push I told him. " this is why kids want to run bulldozers " . I think he agreed

 

[tramp bushler]

Always liked Glen's full face Dutchmen, you guys have taught me a lot as well as the older guys I've cut with


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Always liked Glen's full face Dutchmen, you guys have taught me a lot as well as the older guys I've cut with


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I dont use Full Face dutchmen !! Not on purpose anyway !!!!!

 

[tramp bushler]

A kerf dutchman needs to terminate at the point across the width of the stump where your holding wood starts.

 

[Metals406]

I dont use Full Face dutchmen !! Not on purpose anyway !!!!!

Bout every production cutter over 50 years old I've seen cut in this neck of the woods, dutches the face.

Usually because they're gonna chase it off the stump anyway, so they don't mind matching in the kerf.

I try to be pretty anal about my mechanics. . . Not always though.

 

[tramp bushler]

It should b tapered. Tho sometimes they are about the outline of 2 good slices of pie . I step my dutchmen often. As I'm fairley averse to beating wedges for no reason.

 

[Metals406]

It should b tapered. Tho sometimes they are about the outline of 2 good slices of pie . I step my dutchmen often. As I'm fairley averse to beating wedges for no reason.

If I miss, I miss low on purpose, it leaves me a baby block face, & I know it won't close early.

 

[bitzer]

I've used full face dutch when I've needed the tree free of the stump in a hurry, but I couldn't hang around to cut it off. You only need to go chain deep in the face and you better gut it.

 

[northmanlogging]

Cut some quacking aspens yesterday, nothing real impressive, neighbor job, any way, siz'd em nearly 180 (with the help of a pull line) had to cut the hold wood off after they landed, did not expect them to hold so well.

 

[tramp bushler]

Ive used Sizwheels to swing about every species of tree that guys told me couldnt be swing . A siz and a mulit step dutchman will bring around cotton wood, poplar , aspen, willow . and red and yellow cedar . works good on red alder also. Ive slso used them on birch that was brittle on the stump. "over age" . andthing thats brittle or too soft. Black spruce is brittle but usually gnarly on the stump . siz to the rescue. . White spruce bettle kill , brittle, use a big open siz to get it into the lay I wanted to make yarding better / good . Also, Ive found that it will pull a tree around without pulling the guts out of your holding wood side . My theroy is because more of the holding wood is working in unison. Which is why they will sometimes pull part of the stump out of the ground.

 

[tramp bushler]

You wouldnt believe some of the black hearted , frost checked red cedar Ive swung with a siz.

 

[northmanlogging]

You posted a pic many months ago of a second cut in the back side, sort of a secondary siz, I've been using that on cotton woods... usually works... usually.


Red alder down here will swing like crazy if done right, I usually have to cut em off before they go to far!

 

[tramp bushler]

I experimented with the staged Siz when I really all the holding wood strength I could get. It works great in the right situation.

 

[HuskStihl]

Another siz. It turned, or more appropriately, held a cottonwood about 45 degrees from its lean, which was more than enough

 

[bitzer]

Ya gotta feel that kerf closing and pull out before she sits on ya in the face like that. Also get the far side cut off. When its that rotten its tough but do-able. The soft dutch does nothing if not cut all the way through to the back and then stepped from there. If you would have gotten that far side cut off and then just left some fatty holding wood on the pull side you would have gotten the same effect. Rotten wood doesn't roll around the stump well. You have to pull the side of the stump out to really get er to go. Looked like fun to cut. Hopefully you didn't have to clean it!

 

[HuskStihl]

Ya gotta feel that kerf closing and pull out before she sits on ya in the face like that. Also get the far side cut off. When its that rotten its tough but do-able. The soft dutch does nothing if not cut all the way through to the back and then stepped from there. If you would have gotten that far side cut off and then just left some fatty holding wood on the pull side you would have gotten the same effect. Rotten wood doesn't roll around the stump well. You have to pull the side of the stump out to really get er to go. Looked like fun to cut. Hopefully you didn't have to clean it!

Unfortunately.........

 

[HuskStihl]

Thanks Bitz! This was in Vermont, and my buddy Adirondackstihl brought the saws. I set up the face, and he got the honor. The Siz may have been unnecessary, but that tree was leaning right onto the beach, which would have been a cleanup disaster.

BTW, the 461 R is a really nice saw. Felt stronger than the woods ported 066

 

[Trx250r180]

Thanks Bitz! This was in Vermont, and my buddy Adirondackstihl brought the saws. I set up the face, and he got the honor. The Siz may have been unnecessary, but that tree was leaning right onto the beach, which would have been a cleanup disaster.

BTW, the 461 R is a really nice saw. Felt stronger than the woods ported 066

He put a 460 coil in that saw yet ?