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Thanks, not getting any younger! My back problems have come and gone since I was a teenager and well before starting treework, my left shoulder is honestly the more concerning issue in my mind right now and I can say pretty much for sure it is related to catching and swinging/tossing limbs with that arm. Two months since it started acting up it still doesn't feel super strong, but I'm getting back into what I can do and seeing how it feels.
 
27RMT0N said:
Thanks, not getting any younger! My back problems have come and gone since I was a teenager and well before starting treework, my left shoulder is honestly the more concerning issue in my mind right now and I can say pretty much for sure it is related to catching and swinging/tossing limbs with that arm. Two months since it started acting up it still doesn't feel super strong, but I'm getting back into what I can do and seeing how it feels.
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Been there...

If you cut doug-fir limbs top-cut only, angling diagonally toward the tip, maybe on a 45⁰ angle, they will hold on much better, rather than snapping off so early, reducing shoulder load.

The wood holds itself better/ longer than a vertical cut



Flush cutting also helps the wood hold on longer, allowing limbs to hang vertically, before being fully severed.

Coos Baying bigger limbs can help release quickly, allowing a hard push, no holding, without fighting the tip dropping too early.

Fwiw
 
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southsoundtree said:
Been there...

If you cut doug-fir limbs top-cut only, angling diagonally toward the tip, maybe on a 45⁰ angle, they will hold on much better, rather than snapping if so early.

The wood holds itself better, longer than a vertical cut.



Flush cutting also helps the wood hold on longer.

Coos Baying bigger limbs can help release quickly, allowing a hard push, no holding, without fighting the tip dropping too early.
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I figured out the flush cut method very naturally, but that angled cut is one I'm gonna try out tomorrow. I have a perfect tree to try something new in.
 
I find bigleaf maple can work well with that same slopel to get the limb to split/hang, swing, and release 180⁰ to how it was growing, avoiding obstacles that the limb originally overhung, and/or to swing them toward the chipper, or reverse the butt/tip for whatever purpose.

Fwiw
 
Yesterday was the day I gave up in order to help a friend with some trees. Left the house at 4:30 am and drove for 3 hours in the dark, hitting only one deer. Loaded all my gear and three saws into a boat and motored for half an hour to get to his island. He said he wanted a dead red pine down, but I knew it would turn out to be a lot more, and it ended up being six different trees, the red pine, three maple, a birch, and an aspen. But it was that damn red pine. He didn't tell me that the photo he sent of the dead tree was taken a couple of years ago. No place to drop it, so I had to climb. Rotted is the only word to describe it. The bark fell off in sheets and my gaffs sunk in the rot to the stirrups and I still was gaffing out. Not a fun climb at all. At the end of the day I had to load up the boat and do the reverse thing all over again, but I didn't hit a deer on the way home in the dark.
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Shadowscape said:
Yesterday was the day I gave up in order to help a friend with some trees. Left the house at 4:30 am and drove for 3 hours in the dark, hitting only one deer. Loaded all my gear and three saws into a boat and motored for half an hour to get to his island. He said he wanted a dead red pine down, but I knew it would turn out to be a lot more, and it ended up being six different trees, the red pine, three maple, a birch, and an aspen. But it was that damn red pine. He didn't tell me that the photo he sent of the dead tree was taken a couple of years ago. No place to drop it, so I had to climb. Rotted is the only word to describe it. The bark fell off in sheets and my gaffs sunk in the rot to the stirrups and I still was gaffing out. Not a fun climb at all. At the end of the day I had to load up the boat and do the reverse thing all over again, but I didn't hit a deer on the way home in the dark.
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Did you drop that top into the wind? My hats off to you sir.
 
Bendroctanus said:
Probably for forestry operations where you can broadcast the chips. It would shine there.
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Yep I rarely have to chip into my truck here, one of the reasons I don't have a chipper truck I'd only actually use the box 1 job a week tops, and in my case a lot of times getting the chipper in to the work area would be damn near impossible with a big box.
 
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