Felling Question

[Greystoke]

.. No Cody , I NEVER , EVER !!!! get tired of your pics ...!!!!!!!
. You held that spruce a little too high on the hill .. I know why you did it and I might have too ...
. Thats the problem with this Southeast timber . If you hold it up the hill so it is nice to limb and buck , it will break half way up because of the short lays and the sudden stop .. If you run them 10 - 15 degrees below horizontal to the hill you can push the break into the tops , but then you got to crawl down to them and then climb back up when your done buckin ... You pushed the break up the tree a good ways .... If people on here will really look at the entire pic they can begin to see why we are so spastic ,( or at least I am ) ..................And how much hard work it is , just getting to the stump , and to every stump ......Also why it's so important to hit your lay and to have picked a good one ..

No, Actually that is where I wanted to put it. I know what you mean by leading your tops down hill, but in this strip it would not have worked because there were so many of these tall spruce and hemlock up on a rock knob. If you look at the pic of me bucking you will see that that is where that v-notch really starts to get deep, and only got worse farther down the hill, so consequently I would have had a train wreck if I had thrown it any farther down the hill than I did. Also it would have been out of lead with the rest of my strip, so I would have thrown it across some nice logs, and broke them too. That's the bad thing about the pics on here...they don't always show all the ingredients to a situation

 

[Terry L]

Everyone is saying that the back cut should be level. That is true most of the time, but if the tree is leaning the back cut should be perpendicular to the tree. Sloping back cuts on a vertical tree are a sign of a beginner, and there is absolutely no advantage to the sloping back cut over doing it right.

 

[huskyhank]

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OK, I see what you're doin' but how did you survive that? It looks like you're laid out over the log, over the v-notch and about to launch yourself and the log into oblivion. Of course you didn't or you wouldn't be showing us the pictures.

I'm amazed by your posts and pictures. I don't think I'll ever get tired of them, so keep it up!

 

[Greystoke]

OK, I see what you're doin' but how did you survive that? It looks like you're laid out over the log, over the v-notch and about to launch yourself and the log into oblivion. Of course you didn't or you wouldn't be showing us the pictures.

I'm amazed by your posts and pictures. I don't think I'll ever get tired of them, so keep it up!

Thanks man! I was just bucking the far wood, as I was only using a 32" bar, and could not reach through this Sitka Spruce, so as you will see in these next pics I still had most of the wood to buck on the uphill side. If I had not been day-waging I would have had my hopped up 088 with a 54" bar for fallin and buckin the butt logs off of these pickles, but I was not going to run my baby and wear it out day-baggin.

I started out about here, and could not get that farthest downhill wood:

Here is where I laid down so that I could reach that far wood and not fall into the gully and hurt myself:

And this is where I switched positions on my saw so as not to lose my hold and slide off there...This was probably not necessary because I was fairly sure that I had all that far wood bucked, but not 100% sure, so I switched to make sure that there was not a post of wood holding down there, which would have made for an ugly buck:

Here I am walking it back toward the uphill side:

Here goes that cull butt log down into the chute:

 

[RandyMac]

Great photo sequence, can tell the story by itself.

 

[stihl sawing]

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