shorts

Stop at the hardware store or garage sale/flea market and get a wonder bar.

Add a lanyard to hang it from your harness. My first lanyard was too short. I had to let go of the bry bar whe dumping a chunk and the bar swung down and hit my shin. Ouch! Didn't get cut. Now, with a longer lanyard it will fall below my feet if it goes flying.

1694980852004.png
 
Mick Dempsey said:
I don’t see that salami cut being very useful.
1. Cutting at a slant like that is tiring and inefficient, especially if we’re talking about big wood.
2. I can see a chain being pulled out the guide bar very easily as it slides off.
3. Flip line positioning is going to be a problem.

Get a little felling lever on your belt.
Click to expand...
I only tried it once on straight big wood, and would agree ... seemed like it wasn;t worth the hassle. But obviously using a slanted cut on smaller stuff and leaners comes in mighty handy...
 
Got a new GoPro, I'll try and actually make some videos with it now! This was the first run with it, didn't have the camera pointed low enough so it's not a great clip. Snap cutting small logs off a dead grand fir, with a nice little flip on the landing.

 
For less chance of the saw getting snatched if the piece falls unexpectedly? I just looked up three different tree youtubers snap-cut videos out of curiosity and saw people doing it both ways. Neither cut order has ever given me problems personally.
 
Yes.

I thought the modern method is always second cut closer to the trunk and butt.

When the saw is lower, you can leave it in the kerf while guiding the piece with both hands.




I've just seen other people (videos) with saws snatched.
 
27RMT0N said:
For less chance of the saw getting snatched if the piece falls unexpectedly? I just looked up three different tree youtubers snap-cut videos out of curiosity and saw people doing it both ways. Neither cut order has ever given me problems personally.
Click to expand...
and it won't until it does... you should have seen the look of surprise on my face the first time a saw ever got ripped out of my hands and went for a ride with the limb all the way to the ground..

funny that this subject should come up here as this was the thing I wrote to the ANSI committee about.. they were still showing the three point cut circa 2006.. then there was an asterick and at the bottom of the page it said (see appendix x)

When you turned to appendix x, there was an entire page with only one sentence saying something to the effect that this cut to be used on small limbs under 2-3" diameter... LIKE WHY THE FUCK WOULDN'T THEY HAVE JUST PUT THAT ONE LITTLE SENTENCE WITH THE DIAGRAM ?
we don't need a treasure hunt when there was plenty of room to put that sentence in the body of the copy. The fact they did that shows that they are either total idiots, or that they are intentionally keeping knowledge occutled (hidden).

Now I was recommending that the entire three point cut diagram be removed. They write back and told me that they were going to place the warning to only use this on small cuts with the digram rather than in the appendix. When the new pruning standard came out, the warning was still in the appendix...

ANd last I checked the three point cut diagram was still in the standard. My latest copy has disappeared, but I think that was 2016 or 2017... These guys are complete morons. given how foolish that diagram is and the fact that it's close to 40 years out of date, why would ANYONE LISTEN TO ANYTHING THESE PEOPLE HAVE TO SAY?

I HAVE ZERO RESPECT FOR ANYONE THAT PUTS THAT DIAGRAM OUT (after 1985)
ps.. have fun with the go pro.. and drop that back cut under..
 
Last edited:
You must log in or register to reply here.

New threads New posts

Back
Top Bottom