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Showerthought: a customer in Tulsa said my hinge cuts looked like beaver chews, so I changed one thing
I was pruning a red oak on a job in Tulsa 3 weeks ago and the homeowner came out and said my hinge cuts looked like beaver chews, which stung but was fair. So I slowed down and now I set my notch and back cut to line up at the exact same depth on every limb, and my cuts clean up way better. Anyone got a trick for keeping the hinge the same thickness on limbs bigger than 8 inches?
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ivan7741d ago
Why are you trying to keep the hinge the exact same thickness on every limb anyway? A red oak limb that's 10 inches across isn't gonna hinge like a 4 inch one, and if you force it you're asking for a barber chair or a tear out. On the bigger stuff I leave my hinge a touch thicker than a chainsaw bar width and let the wood tell me, since a fat hinge on a heavy limb will pull fibers instead of snapping clean. Matching your notch depth to your back cut is a good fix, but thickness is about species and lean, not a number you set once and forget.
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