Lanyard idea.

[kram]

5 minutes ago, Mark Bolam said:

Why does it need to hold 20kg?

I'd rather have a little pull than a smashed saw.

 

I'd prefer it to be nearer 100kg breaking force.

[Mick Dempsey]

I took off a big oak limb a long time ago with a husky 288. 
Anyway, bolloxed it up, and the saw went with the limb, got a big tug and the saw freed itself, albeit with a bent guide bar. I got a bit of a sore hip. 
My question is this, can a saw really hold on to the limb till the bitter end?

Surely, as in my case, it’ll free itself before anything more catastrophic happens. 

[peds]

The human pelvis is capable of absorbing fewer kN than you would believe. 

 

Saws are cheap. Pelvises are not.

[Mark Bolam]

2 minutes ago, Mick Dempsey said:

I took off a big oak limb a long time ago with a husky 288. 
Anyway, bolloxed it up, and the saw went with the limb, got a big tug and the saw freed itself, albeit with a bent guide bar. I got a bit of a sore hip. 
My question is this, can a saw really hold on to the limb till the bitter end?

Surely, as in my case, it’ll free itself before anything more catastrophic happens. 

 

I’ve had very similar with a 440 in a willow.

I got sore shoulders.

No way was I giving up that saw!

Limb/head was probably 500kg, 18” dia.

 

Total and utter user error.

 

 

I hear you in the 2511 Kram, 20 is probably too low.

I can’t find out what the hook is actually rated to.

[MattyF]

On 05/03/2025 at 11:12, Mick Dempsey said:

@Rich Rule 

C

 

Can I be in your gang now?

Take off the tool crab gate so you can be quick draw McGraw.. 

[Rich Rule]

4 hours ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Have you ever trapped a saw in a free falling branch?

If so, what was the outcome?

As it happens, yes.

 

it was about 20plus years ago and I was taking down a dead birch.

 

The boss was old school and decided to lend me his old 020 (original, not an old schooler calling an ms200 an 020).

 

I did an outboard step cut and the piece fell with the bar trapped in the curf.  As it fell I had hold of the two handles.  The piece continued to the floor with the bar and most of the saw.

 

I still had hold of the two handles,  the rest hit the deck.  There was just a few wires hanging out of the handle and the fuel lines LOL.

 

The saw lanyard just ripped the metal D ring out of the back of the saw.

 

He wasn’t happy, in fact he gave me a right bollocking.  
 

I don’t think I have used an outboard step cut since on a horizontal piece.

 

 

 

 

[AHPP]

What do you do for drop-it-flat cuts? I either slash if I have enough saw or rig because there’s almost certainly a line there anyway. I’ve done a few step cuts and got away with them. Have done those square post cuts once or twice but clearly I don’t love them because I’d do them more if I did. 

[Rich Rule]

I use a coos bay cut.

 

Basically a triangle cut.  Do the compression cut at 45 degrees then the side closest to you at 45 degrees making a v pointing towards the ground.  Then power through the top and match the cuts.

 

Like the box cut but with one less cut.

[AHPP]

Gotcha. I’ve done similar. Cut your side and maybe a bit under. Then power through the strip left on the far side. 

[Mark J]

Coos bay can also be useful felling smaller trees when you might otherwise have made a dog's tooth cut.