Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Is This A Problem?
Remember that the bar likes to pull toward the top when you are making a bore cut, especially in soft woods like this red maple. It is always safer to make your bore cut with extra wood for the hinge, and then carefully reduce the hinge to the proper thickness.
If you blow out the hinge on the tensioned side, the tree is almost certainly going to fall with the lean of the tree, and not the remains of your hinge. Stop and think through your cuts so you don't trap your saw under the heavy side of the tree, and so you can cut the tree loose and make a safe getaway. You may have to clear a new escape path for the new falling direction. Click Here to review your planning procedure for dropping a tree.
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