Horse Chestnut felling advice sought.

[Mesterh]

Could any-one here please relate to me their experiences of working with these trees as I am aware the wood is some what fragile.

 

It is brittle but nothing to worry about.

[skyhuck]

, make sure you have the engine side towards the stem, so the limb wont take it with it. enjoy:thumbup:

 

Interesting.

 

Have you found that its the dogs (spikey bits that stick out next to the bar) that cause the limb to take your saw???

 

IME, my saw has only ever been snatched, if when doing a step cut, I cut past the step more at one side than the other. So my saw is in it own curth rather than parallel to the other curth allowing the step to snap.

 

Because you saw is in its own curth, as the limb falls away it twists trapping the bar.

 

I find the best way to avoid the "snatch" is to make sure you line up your cuts and if its not going as it should, I would use the nose of the bar to "tickle" away at the cut.

 

[Ty Korrigan]

Thanks for all that Chaps

Will post some more from La Belle France soon....

[Stephen Blair]

Interesting.

 

Have you found that its the dogs (spikey bits that stick out next to the bar) that cause the limb to take your saw???

 

IME, my saw has only ever been snatched, if when doing a step cut, I cut past the step more at one side than the other. So my saw is in it own curth rather than parallel to the other curth allowing the step to snap.

 

Because you saw is in its own curth, as the limb falls away it twists trapping the bar.

 

I find the best way to avoid the "snatch" is to make sure you line up your cuts and if its not going as it should, I would use the nose of the bar to "tickle" away at the cut.

 

 

 

i am trying to think of how to explain what i did to cause my saw to get taken off me, it was when i first started out. it was probably poor positioning, blunt saw and cutting too slow, it was on an ash with a big leaning head , i had the saw trigger end on my left hand and was stretching out in front of me, i did a small gob and then tickled away as i was really nervous, the head, or more like a limb went pretty slow and the saw got taken right out my hands, luckily it wasnt clipped on at the time. what you describe is right, never done it again though:blushing: