Rate My Hinge.

[skyhuck]

mouth too big, hinge too wide, but everything is square and level as it should be, well done.

 

Do you have an explanation as to why??

 

Or are you just going off what you were taught??

[slack ma girdle]

Do you have an explanation as to why??

 

Or are you just going off what you were taught??

 

For felling in the woods particulary for saw logs, you want to minimise the amount of wastage, and the risk of the hinge ripping up into the trunk. Therefore smaller mouth and thinner hinge (generally if it goes wrong in the woods, you get the winch out). However in situations i.e. houses, caravans the bigger hinge is safer.

[Frank]

So fo saw logs would I be better putting my gob upside down as it were?

[bob]

8/10

but mainly due to sink cut

agreed hinge slightly too wide which is why long strands are there but tbh site might of needed it ???

but 8/10 is a good mark

[mistahbenn]

ok here is a pin oak, dismantled to 30ish ft and felled the stick in a tight back yard. Bored the middle out. Came over nice....

[Frank]

ok here is a pin oak, dismantled to 30ish ft and felled the stick in a tight back yard. Bored the middle out. Came over nice....

 

9and a half out of 10. Only for the fact your saw dug in slightly on back cut at about 12oclock. Haha. Very nice

[skyhuck]

For felling in the woods particulary for saw logs, you want to minimise the amount of wastage, and the risk of the hinge ripping up into the trunk. Therefore smaller mouth and thinner hinge (generally if it goes wrong in the woods, you get the winch out). However in situations i.e. houses, caravans the bigger hinge is safer.

 

True, but this is Arb, which is about removing a tree not producing timber. You would look well using a tiny gob to save the log, then ringing it up.

 

A large gob just makes tipping the tree easier, I've asked this before, but no one has come up with a good explanation for why big gobs are bad.

[Frank]

I love big gobs. Big shallow gobs that meet exactly at the tips as it cracks of the hinge.

[skyhuck]

8/10

but mainly due to sink cut

agreed hinge slightly too wide which is why long strands are there but tbh site might of needed it ???

but 8/10 is a good mark

 

Whats up with it?????????

[Ian Flatters]

Here's my attempt