Why my wife hates poplars

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What a pain. I've never gotten two saws stuck in one tree. think it must be due to my keen eye and expert evaluation of each situation. It might also be due to owning only one saw. Can any of you guys come over to my place and help me free my saw?
 
So when you say your "wife" got these saws stuck . . . is this kind of like asking a question or telling a story about a "friend" when that friend is actually you? ;) :)

All kidding aside . . . glad to see I'm not the only person that has these issues occasionally . . . for me it always seems to be a good day when everything is falling perfectly and things go smoothly . . . or it's one of "those days" when saws get pinched, trees fall the wrong way and I end up runing the chain into the ground or a rock.

And . . . on the plus side . . . having a wife run the woodstove is good . . . having a wife help split or stack the wood is great . . . having a wife actually cut down the tree and buck it up is the best! You better hold on to her . . . she's a definite keeper.
 
I've seen several landscapers notch and cut (smaller trees) from the back side like that.
One hand on the saw, the other pushing on the tree.

I've had to use a bottle jack to get another bottle jack out from under an oak with a stuck bar.
 
My saw has a nasty looking dent in the muffler when I couldn't pull it out as the tree came down. I've gotten my saw stuck a few times but never used another saw to rescue it. I would just take my axe and cut some push poles.

This is how I usually notch a tree.
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LLigetfa said:
My saw has a nasty looking dent in the muffler when I couldn't pull it out as the tree came down. I've gotten my saw stuck a few times but never used another saw to rescue it. I would just take my axe and cut some push poles.

This is how I usually notch a tree.
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thats a deep notch and it looks upside down to me! lol your logger style
 
smokinjay said:
thats a deep notch and it looks upside down to me! lol your logger style
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x2, I try not to make them that deep so I can wedge from the back if I need to, hard to wedge when the felling cut doesn't have to be deeper then the bar. I also flip my notch over from the one pictured.
 
Nope, never stuck a saw - there ain't no pictures so it never happened. Thats my story and I'm sticking to it. :red:

Well, there was this one time.......
 
rdust said:
smokinjay said:
thats a deep notch and it looks upside down to me! lol your logger style
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x2, I try not to make them that deep so I can wedge from the back if I need to, hard to wedge when the felling cut doesn't have to be deeper then the bar. I also flip my notch over from the one pictured.
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lol it just looks so wrong to see it, but I know that it works just as well just cant bring myself to try it! we are what you call east coast style
 
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Flatbedford said:
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ordered one last week should be here today! I have quite a few different books but this one has some great reviews.

update its here!
 
That's not my cut, just something I found on the net. I was just showing the notch on the bottom, not the depth. I've almost always take my notch out of the stump, not from the money wood. As for depth, I don't go more than half way through and I've never used a felling wedge in my life.
 
LLigetfa said:
That's not my cut, just something I found on the net. I was just showing the notch on the bottom, not the depth. I've almost always take my notch out of the stump, not from the money wood. As for depth, I don't go more than half way through and I've never used a felling wedge in my life.
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you notch out of the stump around here you can count on fitting a house or two. Even a level is need sometimes with very tight landing zone (just to make sure the notch is percect) and a mistake means there is no money for no one! lol
 
mpilihp said:
Out cutting this weekend my wife Jen was attempting to rid our wood lot of poplars and ran into a bit of trouble and I only made it worse.

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Luckily we have a third backup saw!

~ Phil
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Ok,
just found this thread. A day later.

Looks like some kind of freaky chainsaw kama sutra thing.

Dave
 
firefighterjake said:
So when you say your "wife" got these saws stuck . . . is this kind of like asking a question or telling a story about a "friend" when that friend is actually you? ;) :)

All kidding aside . . . glad to see I'm not the only person that has these issues occasionally . . . for me it always seems to be a good day when everything is falling perfectly and things go smoothly . . . or it's one of "those days" when saws get pinched, trees fall the wrong way and I end up runing the chain into the ground or a rock.

And . . . on the plus side . . . having a wife run the woodstove is good . . . having a wife help split or stack the wood is great . . . having a wife actually cut down the tree and buck it up is the best! You better hold on to her . . . she's a definite keeper.
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Nope wife got one stuck, I got second stuck, two peas in a pod... and yes she is the best, a true keeper.

Glad to see we're not the only ones to get a saw stuck and have a sense of humor about it.

~ Phil
 
I never knew what those felling wedges were for 'till I got my saw stuck once! I feel your pain..LOL
 
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