rip cuts for rigging

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Yeah Tuttle, ahhhh... using and abusing the buzz, what do you think this place is a free billboard for your booming splicing biz? How selfish of you to never contribute to anything unless it's aimed at selling your work. Ya wanker!
 
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I dig rip cuts. When your familiar with the species I can see many advantages. Here's a rip cut while rigging some wood in Blue Oak... fwd to 1:26 http://youtu.be/n0vhrnp1nWw

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Spot on Bix

key words here "familiar with the species"

No textbook or study is going to help with this one.

Becoming very familiar with fiber properties of different species take a lot of time and practice.

One might call it the opposite of a snap cut. To be used when you want the piece to hold for the longest time possible, to help send the piece behind you. Used mostly on horizontal loads.



Keep chatting it up on the buzz, Bix
 
I use it like Tom and Paul, another tool in the box. Species and desired outcome dependent. easing into the rigging or throwing it back away from a target or on conifers to keep the limbs close to the trunk.
 
Birches are perfect trees for ripcuts but not when freezing....

I like to use it every now and then, but its def not my main cutting technique. Just use what you thinks is suitable for the situation at hand and if you knwo all these cutting techniques and different wood structures and behavor you will just be fine with the method you have chosen.

Climb safe
 
Many times rip cutting allows me to not have to rig.

Recently I have been using bigger saws in the bucket and I tell you what... When you can cut faster then the wood trying to orientate with gravity as it's being cut free, you have more control. Yea slow saws Are not only unproductive they can be dangerous. Especially when not putting under cuts on wood that tends to hang on and or tear out.

With rip cuts I can make it quick and level as if cut by a ninja sword or a slow cut so the piece "hangs" on and swings then release towards the trunk.

I do not like rip cutting the large/ heavy vertically orientated pieces, especially trunk wood. Seems too unpredictable for me. I will dart large vertical branches though with great success.
 
Isn't this a fundamental basic cut where all cuts evolved from? I use it when it's the right thing to do and I don't use it when it's the wrong thing to do.
 
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