I imagine it's so you can get your body into a better position to run if the need arises. It's just safer most times.
yeah, can get a little further away. Safer unless that trigger snaps by itself while you’re not expecting it.
If i have a cut like that to make i imagine what size of dimensional lumber will hold the weight and lean. Think how much pull it takes to pull apart a 2x4.
Understood. On the other hand if the tree isn’t live that 2x4 may be punky. I’m not saying ones right or ones wrong, just trying to understand why it’s done one way or the other.
Oh i get it. That's kinda why you gotta pay attention while making your plunge cut and setting up your backstrap or trigger. Gotta feel where the good wood is. Similar to making a face cut and deciding where the hinge will be and how thick. I think its generally understood that the sap wood is stronger/more flexible/pulls apart harder. Obviously that's where the trigger will be set 9 times outta 10. I'm just rambling at this point. Lol. Try setting up a backstrap the next time you have a cut like that. It makes watching the fall funner cause you're on the back side of the tree instead of under/next to it.
While cutting back away from the hinge to leave some trigger wood, the kerf started closing and pinching my bar. Had to use 2 wedges and barely got it out.
Yep. This is coming out of the same location as my oak honey hole thread. Coming out of a cut I felt the chain bump a rock. Had to swap.
I use a makeshift ramp to tumble rounds into the trailer so I don’t have to dead lift. Light they are not.
No doubt! There is still so much more when I look around his skyline. Really glad I didn't mill this up. As I got to about 1/2-1/3 of the way down the log, I needed to start noodling rounds in 1/2. I started seeing heartwood rot. I told Tony I'll be sawing here for years to come.
Tony (the landowner) walked up to my fully loaded truck and commented on how good it smelled. Still have the base to get. Probably just a trailer load but there so much wood, I'll find enough to fill the bed of the truck. Counting 21" rounds I guessed a little over 60' of decent size rounds.
And this concludes getting the leaner wood home. No apts at work so I skipped out and got paid to hoard firewood. Noodled rounds and went in the woods to get some for the truck bed. Lot of rotten sapwood but there’s plenty of good heartwood to burn. Carried a few halves to the trailer and felt a muscle in my back tighten up. Took a little break and slowed down. I’ll be teetering later. 2 layers of halves under the rounds. Now I have something to split with the recent changes to my splitter. Just as I’m unloading the last pieces, it started to drizzle. More rain…
Rained all day and still raining here. I scored some white oak but it’s too muddy to bring it home. That’s a good looking pile of oak you got there. It should fly through the splitter.
I haven’t burned chestnut oak back to back with straight white. I’m too familiar with chestnut but what I remember of the 2 times I did get white, it lasted a crazy long time in the firebox. And the whiskey barrel smell was much more pronounced. Soon as I get a break in the rain, I’ll give this new pump its maiden voyage.
