I cut mostly in the southwest. The trees are brittle but very difficult to split, interlocking grain. I could probably cut them without a face and not have them chair.
If I was back east cutting dead ash, I’d bore cut every one…with a bar long enough to reach through.
Short bar bore cutting...
Plunge cutting is usually to save out valuable wood (prevent fiber pull), or prevent barber chair. Neither are much of a concern for me usually, but sometimes I cut long dead, large, heavy, wide spreading live oaks with limbs the size of small trees. I carefully bore and trigger them from the...
Sketchy. Sometimes they drop limbs as soon as things move. I often bore and trigger so I can get away fast. This one the trunk was pretty solid, still had some dead leaves, but the RH limb was crispy dead…and had a hive in it. It was a widowmaker. Bees were piiiiissed. Probably africanized...
The cuts and hinges look like a tweaking beaver cut them, but that’s due to the sizwheels, Dutchmen, angled back cuts, tapered hinges, and the fibers holding.
@Matias turned some random guy he met on the internet loose to drop hazard trees threatening a structure….he was right, those grey (digger?) pines sure do hold on well, and one can do some cool swing/redirect trick with them.
They also tend to to be full of included knots, but none ruined our...
I’m not very techy and it’s a pain but this is what I figured out
Open pic in camera roll
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Rotate it one way or the other, doesn’t matter.
Save
Open/edit again. Rotate to desired position. Save…again.
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There was a kid in my neighborhood when I was a kid who died from this.
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