Gunning sight
Conventional cut
Open-face technique
When making the felling notch, use the
gunning sight on the shroud and housing
to check the required direction of fall:
A = felling notch - determines the
A = felling notch - determines the
direction of the fall
direction of the fall
For a conventional cut:
For an open-face cut:
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Position the saw so that the
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gunning sight points exactly in the
direction you want the tree to fall.
Properly place felling notch
Properly place felling notch
perpendicular to the Iine of fall,
close to the ground
perpendicular to the Iine of falI,
close to the ground
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Cut down at app. 45-degree angle
Cut down at app. 50-degree angle
to a depth of about 1/5 to 1/4 of the
trunk diameter
to a depth of app.1/5 to 1/4 of the
trunk diameter
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Make second cut horizontal
Make second cut from below at
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Remove resulting 45-degree piece
app. 40 degree angle
Remove resulting 90-degree piece
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