I bet you can't believe it

[treehugger01]

Can you believe this actually happened.
I had limbed up a pine about a 90 footer. Took the top out with my 55 husky and started down. First bucking cut was about a 5 foot pulpwood piece. It was already about 18 inches so I was cutting notches. Decided to save some time and cut a 10 feet piece. Came on down the its about 20 inches and cut my notch, I decided to cut my notch deep and big cause I'd be pushing the log over.(inexperienced) I thought this would help me push it.
Came back on the back side started in on my back cut. Noticed I was a little high on my cut said oh well i wanna get down it'll work.
Never did unattach my saw dont know why, usually do. I started pushin the log *it snapped and set* just as it started tippin. Thats weird I thought. Stopped pushing started to pull my saw out and it was stuck. Pulling frantically as the log started to dive no help. Oh ????! Pulled all the way around the tree! Let go of the saw and before I know it Get my spikes in the tree 40 feet down with my first attemp to gaft I think.(by the time I realized what happend)
Bar bends to a right angle! Releases! I climb back up thinking If folks could have seen that. heh
Close call!
Lesson learned never saw while its attached.
Never cut to high on the notch

 

[NeTree]

hmmm....

 

[treehugger01]

 

[NeTree]

 

[treehugger01]

www.geocities.com/rabitt67/pines.jpg

 

[treehugger01]

punked!

 

[NeTree]

Originally posted by treehugger01
www.geocities.com/rabitt67/pines.jpg

Nice link!

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[NeTree]

Try this:

 

[treehugger01]

This pic is cool.
I hope the authors name appears certainly ue credit is due him.

This pic reminds me of a contract to remove over 1000 dead beatle pine for Murphy Power board in Murphy NC. It mountains so a bucket did us no good.
On alot of the pines I tied into pines just like the ones in this pic, swung over into shorter ones, attached my steel core to um and advanced my blakes hitch to pull them off the power lines. The dead trees should have broken under that pressure but didnt. i cut the trees with them pulled off the line and all went well. I returned to several neighborhoods to bid trees on homes that the beatles* had worked on. I started noticing pines that we did not cut that were far enuff away from the power lines had broken at the base and fallen. Most broke about 2 feet up from the ground. I kept thinkin to myself I was just up 90 feet in that one 2 weeks ago.
Ive learned not to push my luck anymore.

 

[treehugger01]

why isnt my avatar werking? ive resized it to 40 by 75?

 

[rbtree]

Hmm,

I don't recall the Beatles ever working in trees. I wonder of the Stones used to do it too?

Can't get no satisfaction.....

 

[Lumberjack]

Anyway... Your experiance was called "saw snatcher" and I guess you found out why. Your bottom cut of the notch must have been to deep, making it a snap cut, and not a hinge.

It is an a smart thing, IMO, to use a tear away lanyard, on smaller saw under 15lbs, and a snap (or something that will break when it needs to) to hold the bigger saws on a normal lanyard.

I hate havin my saw unattached because I know that it will cruck somthing up if it falls, exspecially the big ones because they are mighty exspensive.

Glad that you aint hurt.


Carl

 

[MasterBlaster]

Yea, a long time ago I tried out the 'attached' method. It didn't take me long to realize it was a bad idea.
I almost always make my back cut level with the notch, especially when cutting chunks.

 

[treehugger01]

Does cutting the notch deeper help a piece go. I mean here the saw is screaming about belly one hand on the saw pushing with all ya might on the chunck to get it to go with the other. On big wood ive thought of useing a vertical snap cut. That vert. snap cut gets risky thou on any wood over say 18 inches. On wood that big and bigger i mostly use a notch to get it to go. I cant push a snap but accurately to a impact area with a snap cut.
I know a guy cuts a snap cut rapells down then with a comealong pulls the huge chunks. He dont use any help. dangerous rapelling of a tie in point below a snap cut!

 

[MasterBlaster]

Originally posted by treehugger01
Does cutting the notch deeper help a piece go.

Yes. Combine that with a full or partial snipe and it goes over even better.

I'm kinda lazy. Blocking down wood up to 18 0r 20 inches I just start with a backcut and go all the way through. Bigger than that I will put a small undercut in it. Unless your trying to undermine the center of gravity, large notches aren't really necessary most of the time.

 

[treehugger01]

Well like I say my buddy who is just starting out work by himself.
After he gets all the limbs off. Comming down he will cut a verticle snap cut.Leave a pull rope. Tie in again below the verticle snap cut rapell down leaveing the piece above him. Install a come-along and pull the piece down. I think its unsafe and cant convince him not to do it. He do it everyday. Rapelling off and below a unbroken verticle snap cut and then pulling it down is crazy.

 

[treehugger01]

Id never do this

 

[NeTree]

Seems unsafe to me as well, not to mention when the piece snaps it must make for a helluva ride

On short pieces, I just cut all the way thru and push it off when my saw gets to the other side.

Notch & BC on longer pcs.

 

[NeTree]

Rocky, ever considered bringing up a small wedge & hammer?

I've done that on ocassion, but I agree... much better with a tagline in the top.

 

[MasterBlaster]

A wedge and a hammer, Erik? What, were you by yourself? If not, where was your help with the pullrope?

No rope?




That snap-cut looks like some pretty silly $hit!!!