Skinny Ones

[Roger_Barnett]

Or less....after the log pops free, you have a moment when you can push down hard on the log to actually slow down the rotation rate a tad....

I have found that it is also possible to slow the rate a bit by cutting a deep face that is only open 20 degrees of so. (as long as the wood fibers are straight and clean) The section will pop off sooner. It helps to have plenty of length and wood weight, don't want the log hanging up. Relief cuts a couple inches below the hinge work.

And, I usually bore out the center of the hinge, though not with skinny stuff. Allows for the remaining hinge wood to be thicker-

Nice work, Gord, as usual! Good thing you ain't afflicting with motion sickness!

 

[Kevin]

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the hinge tears down the sides of the cut

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No, not that Gord.
The fibers in some wood won't break off in the pinch but rather bend and hold the two pieces together longer, that's why I say don't take a chance on relying on the hinge wood breaking when you want it to and cut it through.
I doesn't seem to be as much of a problem with bushy tops as it does with the bare stems.
The idea is to get the butt off early before the top gets too far ahead in the fall.
Narrow faces may have a tendency to stall the butt when the face closes early, deep wide notches make more sense to me when it comes to getting the butt to jump off and away from the tree.
Not the open face but more resembling the humboldt.

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as long as the wood fibers are straight and clean

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This is important also.

 

[Jamin_Mayer]

Nice vid Gord.

I do have to ask one thing though: Could that first small top have been "sliced" cut? (Or, spear cut)

 

[Gord]

I could have safely spear cut it off yup (we often call that a 'fast cut' ha) but it may have tumbled down a bank that was the opposite way that I fell it.