rashing good practice or not?

[Gary Prentice]

Bit extra work thats all . saw races a bit as there is not much load on it . just fatten it down in the rides and the forwarder drives over it .

 

Doesn't seem like much of a reason for the trainers to teach it's a bad practice, maybe better teaching the learners how much throttle is needed in proportion to the diameter of the wood being cut.

 

Before chippers, we loaded everything by hand, keeping good straight stuff to build up the sides, everything in the middle got mashed down -many times, and a load of brash often ended up three or feet above the cab. Tie it up, trim round with the saw so you could see the police behind you:biggrin: and bobs your uncle. Can't remember ever being stopped.

 

But a bad practice, I'm still puzzled.

[Mountain man]

Doesn't seem like much of a reason for the trainers to teach it's a bad practice, maybe better teaching the learners how much throttle is needed in proportion to the diameter of the wood being cut.

 

Before chippers, we loaded everything by hand, keeping good straight stuff to build up the sides, everything in the middle got mashed down -many times, and a load of brash often ended up three or feet above the cab. Tie it up, trim round with the saw so you could see the police behind you:biggrin: and bobs your uncle. Can't remember ever being stopped.

 

But a bad practice, I'm still puzzled.

 

I'm pretty sure that it's frowned upon because your putting the saw into uncertain stuff near your feet, plenty of scope for kick back etc.

[hamdogg]

It's horrible!! Bad practice! I've done it on railway and hated it