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Good for you on the GOL !! Now I under stand you question. The tree is roundish. I position the bar at the back of the tree and on that that side in the pic the top of the bar against the tree. To start the cut I angle the saw so that I am using the straight part of the bar then rotate so it...

You are right - the hinge generally breaks when the notch closes so wider angled notches like you prefer to make will hold longer. One consideration to think about - if you are cutting in the thick and your tree may come in contact with other standing trees you may want your tree to be able to...

:) Actually it did. That first afternoon and evening. The guy from the local shop picked me up at the airport and we went over to set up and experimental aircraft scale. gg

I remember one time that I was sent to Dallas for a one night over service call from work. Must have been late 80's just before Christmas. It was cold even for a Vermonter. During the night it started to rain and in the morning it was 5 degrees. Every thing was a skating rink. Couldn't begin to...

Yesterday we didn't get any snow. We got this instead. 30 degrees and rain most of the day. This morning it is 8 degrees. Gonna be fun........................ gg

Nice to here from you nerwin - glad your good ! So the new mini split is doing what you hoped even in the cold ?? Enjoy the remainder of the holidays. Your Dad is a lucky man. gg

I have two Kubotas and I have to be careful and take a few minutes to think when I switch from one to the other. Both are gear drive but the L3010 has F/N/R on the column with the gear shifter by my left thigh and hand throttle (which I use a lot in the woods to free my foot for steering brakes...

This is a little late and not really yard waste but some may find it interesting. Several years ago I cut all the junky softwood out of a small area. I just left it where it fell and lopped it up a little. As an experiment I went back and took the same picture of the area every years just to...

That is a good point. It is not a cut you can use on any tree and needs to be used with due consideration first - like any method. Looking at it, you start with a smallish based tree and then you bore thru the center of the hinge area, The remaining hinge is all that is holding the tree from...

I meant to add this with the above gg

About 3 years ago I made a video while I worked in a fir stand that required some wedging. It shows a method I like to use on small trees called the tongue and groove cut - starts at about 11:20 in the video. You guys might want to try this. In the winter I like to use at least 2 wedges because...

It's almost 50 degrees and raining today. A sudden big change from our normal cold. So I won't be adding any wood to the firewood pile until it freezes up again; which should be quick. This is from the other day. gg

With that type of plow the usual set-up for pushing forward would be to have the plow frame parallel to the road surface. That way when you angle left or right the cutting edge stays flat on the ground. If your frame is not parallel to the road when you angle one corner of the blade will lift...

Nasty nasty stuff !! gg

^^^^^ That looks like it works really well for a stove in the shop or garage @NCL4701 (y) (y) gg

The going is perfect right now. A few pictures from the last couple of days from my Maple stand improvement project that I am picking away at to make firewood. This one was a hard leaner and I tried to swing it to fall up hill. I knew the base was iffy but figured I had nothing to...

I like to putter with stuff and I got the idea of reducing the splitter cycle time. It opens to 25" and I cut my blocks 18". My first try was to clamp a bar across the beam so that on the return cycle the back of the wedge would hit the bar when the opening was about 20" and cause the reverse...

After a life time of splitting wood with a maul and wedges when I was 67 I bought a used 22 ton Husky. I was really curious as to how much it took to split wood so I put a pressure gauge on it. To my surprise it very rarely took more than 10 ton. Of course I knew how to place the block for...

I plug mine in for an hour or two when it gets down to 15 degrees or so. Maybe 20 degrees if it has been setting a long long time.

I put on my chains today. I snapped some pictures as I went in case someone might not be familiar with the "drive them on" method. Makes the job super easy for what I have. Make a length of rope with a hook at each end. Lay out the chins outside up. Hook the rope to one end of the chains and...