Tips and advice for a felling worm...
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Burvol
Bullbuck
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Square your body and legs up to the tree (chest facing not shoulder), open up your stance, lock that thumb around the bars and forget the sloped back cut.
Square your body and legs up to the tree (chest facing not shoulder), open up your stance, lock that thumb around the bars and forget the sloped back cut.
Right. Is there a specific reason for locking the thumb? In the next few weeks ill take som pics of me falling some real trees. not just those little hickory trees like that. Maybe i can get a pic of me felling a big red oak. that would be a lot better than these little things here.
Yeah it's safer. In the event of reactive force (kickback, etc.) you've got a better chance of keeping your grip on the handle in you've got your thumb wrapped all the way around.
Yeah it's safer. In the event of reactive force (kickback, etc.) you've got a better chance of keeping your grip on the handle in you've got your thumb wrapped all the way around.
ahh ok One minor detail i left out. Some of these pics were taken when i was not cutting. I actually stopped for that one because that was all the wedge i wanted in the tree.
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Turkeyslayer
Smells Great
Try cutting in the daylight, its easier to see what your doing. Also check out this site http://www.osha.gov/SLTC/etools/logging/manual/felling/felling.html
Lots of good info to be gleaned from that site. Be careful and try to get someone with experience to help you until you understand the basics of safe tree felling.
Lots of good info to be gleaned from that site. Be careful and try to get someone with experience to help you until you understand the basics of safe tree felling.
pucksaw
ArboristSite Lurker
Everyone has to start somewhere...........start with a helmet, and pants/chaps. Be careful.
Lots of info on this site.........Reading helps.
Lots of info on this site
.........Reading helps.
logging22
Cuttin to live, livin to cut
THUMB RAP!! And the stump is too high.
THUMB RAP!! And the stump is too high.
Stump height is the least of your worries when starting out. That's all I'm going to say...
bullbuck
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when i first started cutting an old timer said if you survive the first two years you will probably make it.chainsaws are replaceable cutters are hard to come by
joesawer
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I agree with Slowp. stump height is not an issue yet.
And please get in the habit of wrapping your thumb around the handle bar every time all the time. It will eventually save you from very serious injury.
And please get in the habit of wrapping your thumb around the handle bar every time all the time. It will eventually save you from very serious injury.
460magnumMOD
ArboristSite Lurker
Just be safe and think about your cuts before you start them
mile9socounty
Two-Stroke Swope
You high stumped it. Not too uncommon. Thats about all I can say. Just keep practicing. Thats what it all comes down too. Or find someone with 20+ years experience and have them "learnt" you.
Yup. I'm not a big fan of book learning but I think you need some help. Get that book by Dent and read it. There's a lot of good information here on AS too, but I'd listen more to the professionals like Burvol, JacobJ, TarrzanTree, TreeSlingr, Tramp Bushler, and a few more that I'll probably catch hell for not mentioning.
Don't underestimate those little trees. They'll hurt you just as fast, and just as seriously, as a big one.
Take your time...you're still in school. And school is never really over.
Ya i know its a high one. We leave them like that so we can find them later when we need too. We do go back and stump.
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mile9socounty
Two-Stroke Swope
No need to get pissy this early in the morning. You asked for our advice. All it takes is practice. Keep plugging along and you will get better. Oh and leaving the stumps. Thats a good idea. It would make it easier to find later on.
Ya sorry about that. To early in the mornin to do much of anything.
As for the stump idea that was the idea. seems to work well. leave them waist high and you can see them when your pushing you brush up like we have to do.
OK, I have to say more.
You asked for advice, said you were a "worm" then explained that a worm is an inexperienced person.
Now, folks are giving you advice, doing so politely and you start getting hissy and defensive. That's what big red typed words mean to me.
Look, everybody has been a beginner. Listen. Take the advice and do so politely. My gawd, I've learned so much just by being a fly on the wall out in the cutting units.
Keep the mouth closed, (in this case keep the fingers still) and keep the eyes and ears open. There are some very good fallers giving you advice. You are lucky. You are young and we'd like for you to have the chance to get old.
And believe me, having that thumb hooked around the bar helps immensely when that saw starts bucking back at you. Thumbs are a good thing.
You asked for advice, said you were a "worm" then explained that a worm is an inexperienced person.
Now, folks are giving you advice, doing so politely and you start getting hissy and defensive. That's what big red typed words mean to me.
Look, everybody has been a beginner. Listen. Take the advice and do so politely. My gawd, I've learned so much just by being a fly on the wall out in the cutting units.
Keep the mouth closed, (in this case keep the fingers still) and keep the eyes and ears open. There are some very good fallers giving you advice. You are lucky. You are young and we'd like for you to have the chance to get old.
And believe me, having that thumb hooked around the bar helps immensely when that saw starts bucking back at you. Thumbs are a good thing.
You sir are correct. Had my 20 in kickin back a little cuz i got lazy and tired. finally just made myself go sit down drink some water eat a bite.
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