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Shoutout to the old timer in Fresno who showed me how to read a hinge before cutting
For 8 seasons I just eyeballed my face cuts on leaners and hoped for the best, which worked until a 22 inch oak pinched my bar and cost me 45 minutes of prying last spring. Now I check the hinge wood thickness with the back of my hand and listen for the grain before the saw even fires up, after a retired cutter in Fresno walked me through it at a job site in March. How many of you still guess at hinge thickness, and how do you set it on softwoods that seem to fight you?
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blair_nguyen9h ago
Why do we wait for a close call before we actually learn the right way to do something? I did the same thing with sharpening for years, just winging it until a dull chain ate a whole afternoon, then suddenly I cared about doing it right. Seems like most of the stuff that sticks comes from some old guy showing you once, not from reading about it.
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