Promise Made, Promise Kept

[SPIKER]

I've got a 14" & 18" saws, & have had a few trees that once felled I had to cut& roll 360 degrees and still has a few inches in the center that was still attached & needed finished off with a hand saw. maples can grow pretty big around i these parts same with a few old slipperly elm & oaks...

Mark

 

[Treemonkey1000]

Spiker what you might consider is just buying a 20" bar with chain from Baileysonline you can get them for $15-$28 for the combination. That would help to keep from spinning the log. And a lot cheaper than buying a bigger saw.

 

[doall]

I've seen some huge oaks cut with 16 and 18 inch bars. I wouldn't try it but my granddad didn't mind. I don't know how they did it but they would cut down 4 ft. diameter trees with those little saws. Like someone else said, we were never cold.

 

[Treemonkey1000]

Them good ole boys back then that used misery whip saws and stood on spring boards could outwork me any day of the week I think. Cutting down big trees without chainsaws..Now that was hard work.

 

[20 20]

I would have liked to have some of that log for lumber. I've cut trees down that were over 30+inches in diameter with a 16" bar, it's not a hard thing to do just takes a little more time. I figure if the ole timers could cut redwoods with an axe I got life easy

 

[Don87]

Don:

Have you ever tried turning the saw upside down when hand filing? Works good for some guys, lets you file both sides in the same direction.

Actually what I do is ...sit down, put the handle on the ground, put the bar up across my left leg...to file the other side. Hard on my pants, but works to a degree

 

[Don87]

Nice job. I was looking for Safety glasses and earplugs but what the heck. I agree about not needing to use big saws all of the time. I do most of my work with a 16" bar on a Husky. I can run that all day versus carrying around the bigger saws. I dropped 7 trees a couple of weeks ago all Doug firs from
90'-120' tall using the 16" Husky and 25" bar on the Stihl 046. They were 20"- 34" at the base. I have a Husky with a 36" bar when I want nice clean face cuts and back cuts for risky trees. My favorite saw is my Stihl 026 Pro.

I think you did good Sir.

I knew someone would tell on me........LOL.
Did ya notice anything else missing. (gonna tell on myself now)
Hard hat, chaps, boots.

 

[Don87]

only used apple in a smoker as far as I know but about a month ago we had a pig roast and threw some mesquite and oak (maybe??) on for some smoke flavor. I don't have much expirence in smoking meat but I know that the meat we have smoked was good.:drool:

Cherry can be used for smoking meat, but don't use cherry sticks for roasting hot dogs or anything.........they are supposed to be poisonous.

 

[Treemonkey1000]

Yeah I was just getting started but didn't want to seem like I was picking on you. I started cutting firewood with Chainsaws when I was 10. That is 40+ years ago now. I didn't start using safety glasses and ear plugs until I started doing more serious tree work about 10 years ago. Now I wear the helmet chaps glasses and ear plugs just about every time I am running the saw on the ground. Up in a tree I won't do it unless I have all of the head ear and eye protection on..

 

[Don87]

And that is exactly when your well formed hinge preformed as it should have. I'm proud of myself when I get a decent parallel hinge all the way across and I don't try to cut trees that are much bigger then my 18" saw bar. May be a wedge would have taken the waiting for the wind out of the game but it all ended as you planned.:drink::drink:

I was actually proud of myself for the way I cut it. But one other thing I've learned from experience, is never to remove the saw from the 'felling cut', unless the tree is falling(the bar acts as a stop in case the tree wants to go the wrong way).
Wedges would have worked great........just don't have any, LOL.