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Pro tip: I marked my notch cuts with a lumber crayon instead of relying on sight, and my hinge held dead on
I've been dropping medium sized maples around my property in Vermont for a bit now and kept fighting a hinge that closed early on me. Last Saturday I tried something a retired logger named Dale mentioned at the feed store: draw your notch lines with a bright lumber crayon, then check them with a level before you ever touch the saw. Sounds dumb simple but it forced me to slow down and my last four trees all fell right where I pointed them, no barber chair. Anyone else use a marking trick on their face cuts, or am I late to this one?
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ray_webb611d ago
Four maples is a small sample, and I've cut enough with a crayon line to know it won't save you when the tree leans back on you. The line only tells you where your saw should go, it doesn't tell you the wood is sound or the wind is holding, and those are what actually close a hinge early.
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