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Tree work with hunting saddle

Topdog said:
Another thing that’s good to know is a jump cut, I’m not sure if that’s the correct term but who cares. so while trimming with a pole saw make an undercut, and when you make your top cut just cut a little behind your bottom cut, so towards the tree from you undercut, that will jump the limb a little bit straight out from the tree and make it land flat if you do it right, instead of the tip landing first and then pole vaulting at your head or who knows where.
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You make some good points.. imo, one of the most dangerous cuts a limb lands facing straight down. It's tough to know exactly what it'll do when it hits. I have also had a few close calls over the years when that happens. Some times you think your chain is a little sharper than it is and you don't get through the limb as quick as you hoped.. Scary stuff..
 
I did a little bit of tree trimming right after high school for couple years, mostly from a bucket truck though...wether on the ground in a tree or man lift device...chainsaws are the most dangerous thing to yourself that you can hold...that risk goes way up when off the ground...be safe people
 
rhagenw said:
I did a little bit of tree trimming right after high school for couple years, mostly from a bucket truck though...wether on the ground in a tree or man lift device...chainsaws are the most dangerous thing to yourself that you can hold...that risk goes way up when off the ground...be safe people
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true.. I had a friend get hurt a couple of weeks ago.. very routine cut while cleaning off the trunk of a live oak. He was cutting off a sucker (less than 1/8" thick) the tip of the saw hit the bark and kicked up and hit him in the back of the leg.. a surgery later he realized how quick it can happen. He said he didn't have a clue how it happened. but that it happened so quickly that he doesn't know exactly how it happened.. before he knew it, he was repelling to the ground with a pretty severe cut..
 
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