Snedding Tips

[Stephen Blair]

have you been on many big fell jobs that involve breaking down the crown??if you havent then you will soon be one of those lads, i was ha ha. excitement+lack of skill=jammed saw ha ha

[josharb87]

part of the past 2 days job on a construction site was 3 large beech to fell, being methodical is best, agreeing with swb we parked the chipper, rollers facing the butt of tree, 1 groundie chipping one dragging and me working outside in, cutting everything in chipper friendly bits, leaving the branches underneath/with weight, basicallw snedding the bigger branches then the trunk, once all the easy stuff is cleared, cut the supporting/tensioned branches and deal with the timber (crane for me:D )

 

otherwise its start at the butt flopping everything down either side if the tree neatly so the cord can be extracted or branches easilly dragged out the way to chip

 

just be methodical and neat

[Arbocop]

come and see us for a couple of days and well get you sneddingt loke a pro

 

kev

[Mesterh]

Two people who know what they are doing can process and big nasty hardwood fell quick well together. Only as long as they completely aware at what the other is doing and in more or less constant communication.

 

Well works for me sometimes anyway

 

A tip for snedding, dont let any customers watch or you will be guaranteed to trap your saw every other cut!

[skyhuck]

I heard of a guy who did a days trial in the woods for a firm, he got his saw stuck, got another saw to free the first and cut through the handle of the first saw!!!!!!!!

[Xerxses]

Two people who know what they are doing can process and big nasty hardwood fell quick well together. Only as long as they completely aware at what the other is doing and in more or less constant communication.

 

Well works for me sometimes anyway

 

A tip for snedding, dont let any customers watch or you will be guaranteed to trap your saw every other cut!

 

Second you on that!

Me and a collegue always break up the tree together.

Him or me makes the fell, I break up tke crown in managble bits/cut, fold and stack to lengths for lorry w. crane to pick up, he tapers the stem into 4m lengths and sned from bottom up, its all about eye contact and experience, any dodgy/hard to decide if tree is going to move is alarmed and the other person steps outside the dangerzone.

Works for us!

Ive done it with previous collegues too, but also avoided doing it with some cause we werent on the same "wavelenght".

 

A Swedish collegue is a instructor in snedding, hes got a nice flow...;

[Ben90]

We were taught the same flow as that in college, it's like a 6-step 'dance'. Though it does take a bit of practice, and compared to him I look like a robot.

[timtree81]

buy a husky 346xp!

 

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[Stephen Blair]

We were taught the same flow as that in college, it's like a 6-step 'dance'. Though it does take a bit of practice, and compared to him I look like a robot.

 

i was taught 8 steps for snedding spruce and the likes:001_cool:

[thomas_3rd]

was down cornwall start of summer training with pip thompkins, was watchin him sned with amazment, lightning quick, perfect flush and looked like the log was floating in mid air the way he picked out the underside branches