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Found a way to get a clean flush cut on a maple limb without a pull stroke bar
After struggling with the tear-out on a big sugar maple removal in Burlington last fall, I started making a shallow undercut with a handsaw first, and it gave me a perfect finish with the chainsaw every single time, so has anyone else found a different trick for those tricky back cuts?
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mary_wells14d ago
That shallow undercut with a handsaw is a good idea. How deep do you go with it before you make your main chainsaw cut? Just a quarter inch, or more?
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grace_hunt844d ago
You really need that undercut to stop the bark from tearing? I go about half an inch deep, just enough to give the chainsaw a clean line to follow. It saves so much trouble on the final cut.
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marywells14d ago
Burlington's got some tough old trees. When you make that handsaw undercut, do you angle it at all, or is it just a straight shallow cut right where your chainsaw bar will finish?
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