Unusual Blocking Technique

[evo0001]

Nice work looks a bit yank to me might explain the big saw!!

[Highland Forestry]

I dont know if I dare admit this, but I use my big saw for chogging down like that too...

And often cut double choggs, only once through the first chog, I don't take the saw right out and start the second, I just lower the saw and take the second through with a pushing chain which saves more time.

If i'm chogging down like that it's normally on something like a fir, a sitka, larch etc in which case I will climb up taking branches off, then start chogging down with the 020T untill I feel a bigger saw would be more effective.

I then haul up the big saw, which will enable me to chog down right to the ground allowing for the fact that the further down you get the larger the diameter of the tree.

It's easier for the climber to chog down in firewood size if we're removing the wood and then the groundsman can simply chuck the blocks into the trailer or stack neatly for the customer and there's no huge piles of sawdust to rake up afterwards.

 

I nearly always chog into firewood size on the way down, makes the whole job on the ground that much easier, and it;s not much extra work for the climber... he's coming down anyway.

[Highland Forestry]

For the record, that technique works really well on sitka.

[chopthatup]

Any opinions on this?

 

Double Blocking

 

class but dangerous