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Use Tapered Hinge against Side Lean?

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southsoundtree said:
Funny, I did a wildlife-habitat high-stump, triple-stack yesterday, just from the ground. Poops and laughs.

Homeowners put in new electrical service to the cabin a year or two ago, but didn't take down a lot of dead trees, however it was a root-pulled, live willow that took the line down, and tipped the mid-span pole with meter. Pulled tight against the power mast on the house, but didn't damage the house. Roots took a bit to rip out, using the 12' lever of the trunk, so it might have been a slow-speed root failure.



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I did get good fiber pull from an overly thick hinge and hard pull on this other one. Tapered was not intended, particularly, as much as being sure I didn't lose the dead tree to the power line, and I was in an awkward cutting position, as I cut my seat too wide, and ended up with a down-sloping board. They are so useful, just don't cut your seats too much.

As you can see, I did have to clean up that far side, as I missed my Humboldt by a kerf-width.
Best time, I'll mark my board's seat before cutting.

This being dead, and relatively small diameter, I didn't want to cut deeper for a tighter seat.
18" at the hinge.
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Do my eyes deceive me, or is that a tapered hinge done without destroyed hinge. I was pretty it could be done, but I wasn’t 100% sure. Daniel will be shocked.
 
Pulled with two guys, with the super-secret special pull technique .

A little something old, and a little something new...

Wonder-twin powers...Activate!!!
Form of... Perpendicular Gravitational Span Rigging Vector-orama!!
Shape of...old-school, natural-crotch trucker's hitch as a pre-tensioner!!

Not destroyed, at dusk (time to change from tinted to clear visor!). Three cuts. Luckily, if I fell down from there, I had 4' tall, seriously thorny, Himalayan blackberries to catch me. Motivation not to fall when face-cutting at 13'.

PS. you have to use an inverted plate cut when cutting overhead, or just cut it right.

The humboldt is very advantageous when cutting high stumps, such as with root disease, cavities, other defects. The springboard brings more options. I've been able to cut above a super sweepy, dead as a doornail cedar off a board, rather than trying to set a line, and fight a line out from under the felled tree, in a residential forest. Logs were BEAUTIFUL when milled. Not just firewooding them, which makes cutting a rope out waaaay easier. No machine on-site, just a couple pounds of plastic, and an ax. You can cut above a tight crotch where you have co-doms at ground level. It is like being able to cut on stilts that are easier to balance on, and you're able to jump down off of, and exit. I'd take a flying carpet, but haven't been able to find one.
 
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southsoundtree said:
Pulled with two guys, with the super-secret special pull technique .

A little something old, and a little something new...

Wonder-twin powers...Activate!!!
Form of... Perpendicular Gravitational Span Rigging Vector-orama!!
Shape of...old-school, natural-crotch trucker's hitch as a pre-tensioner!!

Not destroyed, at dusk (time to change from tinted to clear visor!). Three cuts. Luckily, if I fell down from there, I had 4' tall, seriously thorny, Himalayan blackberries to catch me. Motivation not to fall when face-cutting at 13'.

PS. you have to use an inverted plate cut when cutting overhead, or just cut it right.

The humboldt is very advantageous when cutting high stumps, such as with root disease, cavities, other defects. The springboard brings more options. I've been able to cut above a super sweepy, dead as a doornail cedar off a board, rather than trying to set a line, and fight a line out from under the felled tree, in a residential forest. Logs were BEAUTIFUL when milled. Not just firewooding them, which makes cutting a rope out waaaay easier. No machine on-site, just a couple pounds of plastic, and an ax. You can cut above a tight crotch where you have co-doms at ground level. It is like being able to cut on stilts that are easier to balance on, and you're able to jump down off of, and exit. I'd take a flying carpet, but haven't been able to find one.
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NOW that’s super duper! Cutting from stilts! That’s legendary shit right there!
 
rico said:
I nominate southsound as the new legend around here. Anyone want to second that shit?
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Dude I was there! I threw the running saws up to SS Sean (broken chain breaks, and poorly tuned carbs) and pulled er over with a 3/8ths tag. The major issue was there was a large pond in the lay, so I was swimming to get enough pull. In my ample experience, and as a expert on the subject, one must dog paddle while holding the tag in their teeth. Never-mind the 30 degree air temperature, I did that shit in my speedo.
I do have to say though he didn't look very manly as he was wearing all this safety crap, like a standard helmet, kevlar airbags, and still not sure what the bubble wrap was for.
 
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Yea. I gotta agree with Mr. Gu here. As impressive as the whole dog-paddling, tagline in your teeth, man-enhancing speedo thing was, riding on Sean's coat tails is some pretty weak shit Evo?
 
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As much as the thought of Evo in speedo’s genuinely excites me, lets
get back to the very serious matter of making fucked up cuts.

Can someone please give me a believable, rational explanation on what appears to be a super-duper, mind blowingly awesome double attemp at the very simply technique previously known as the slice cut?
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rico said:
Can someone please give me a believable, rational explanation on what appears to be a super-duper, mind blowingly awesome double attemp at the very simply technique previously known as the slice cut?
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Tapered hinge? More like tapered stump!
Amirite?
 
rico said:
What the hell has gotten in to you lately Evo? You are on a roll buddy!
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Well lately I've been so stressed I feel like I am pole vaulting into a brick wall daily. My wife is freaky "sick?" and I have missed AMPLE work days. The work days I do manage something always goes wrong. I am getting constant emails from my book keep, warning me of 4 digit payments going to various government institutions. The well pump blew 4 days ago, and the landlord is hinting of hiking rent due to "writing big checks."

Basically back is against a wall and I don't really give a F anymore. My endurance for repeatedly splating against that wall is kinda surprising! I keep waking up every morning, putting one foot in front of the other, and grabbing that pole vault again, and again.
 
“Use the barbechair to your advantage.” This one will most certainly get someone killed! Fucking unbelievable.

 
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