I am starting a cold saw. In the wintertime, now, whenever.
Set your choke.
On a lot of these saws, especially the pro saws, when you pull that choke right it sets it up to full throttle then locks.
Again, I'll pull it and it'll generally make a little different rrrr (sound), rrrr (sound), rrrr (sound). Then it'll go back to normal. Push your choke off.
One or two more times then we will set it.
Okay.
And then, remember it's still on full throttle...
...to get it off of full throttle..
...that's what you do (flip switch). Michael mentioned this thing here. It's real easy; your hand already sits there.
This will not go if your hand isn't on the bottom.
Chain brake is on
Chain brake is off
On.
This is the proper way to do it, okay...
...with your hand here.
You don't have to do this.
It's very awkward at times.
Decompression button. This button will make it a lot easier to pull.
You hear that rrr (sound).
Choke off.
You can see better now, right?
Do you see any hazards?
None that I can see...
There's a large dead limb above you on this side.
What?
There's a large dead limb above you on the side.
Oh, up there?
Okay, we will watch it. I will see.
I knocked my target out.
Now this, like this, is level. If you have it like this, it'll cut crooked. Keep the saw level and make sure that everything is level.
Also, look here. I kinda mark it on my side as I pull it out.
As I am cutting this...
...I always cut down through this one first.
That establishes my angle, my target, everything about it.
Then, I come in with this one. Part of the reason is as I'm cutting through now I can see through the gap.
When I know that I am back here...
...you can just barely see the teeth of my chain on the other side.
I know that if I make it go any farther...
...I am going to bypass my mark.
Does that make sense?
That will make things much easier for you.
This one first. Then this one. As you are cutting through
you can see it stop.
Then just level it all off.
I'll clean this up. Again, I don't want to leave that.
Try and make things neat.
Now what I am going to do,
once I get that cleaned up, I am going to come back here and I am going to bore.
I'm not going to try and hit my three quarter inch mark right away.
I'm going to be back here.
I'm going to do that so I can bore all the way through the tree.
Can I make it through the tree? Will it go through? It'll go through. I have a 24-inch bar and it's roughly a 20-inch tree.
That's one of the nice things about a bigger saw. Can you do it with a smaller saw? Yes, but it's a little more difficult.
So the bigger saw is actually nicer. Take the hint. But remember it's heavier too.
Put it in here. You got it locked in? Now...
Again, I bored it in.
I got it over on this side.
It's against my back cut.
I check the front.
It's right there.
Is the front moving a lot?
Do you know why it's doing that?
It's doing that because there is wood on the inside of here that's not consistent with this side.
It's working on a pivot point in there.
So what some people do is they will say, "Alright, I'm good on this side and pretty good on that side."
Then they finish cutting your tree, and instead of
the inside of your hinge being three quarter of an inch it's one and a half.
You're risking that barber chair depending on how big that pivot point is.
Make sure it's straight.
You can do it by the feel of the saw.
Once I get it in there, I'll know and can feel that pivot point.
Be aware of it and it'll come out.
Nice slow motion to where you can see it and say, "Alright, I got it. Three quarters of an inch!"
If I were to let this little slab right here,
it blurs my vision as to how big it really is.
There...
If my cut was way down here because I am off
it doesn't mean I can't do it but it's hard for me to judge where my exact hinge was.
Some people will say, "We will take care of the barber chair issue.
We will have the face cut here, the hinge down here, and my back cut will be way back here
because that is going to help me."
No, it doesn't work that way.
It doesn't make sense.
Pull your saw out of here. Bring it right back in and straight through.
I'm going to clean this up.
I'm going to back the saw out some and slip a wedge in the front part.
I'll put another wedge in back and then we'll stop just before we fell the tree. Does that all make sense?
Remember it's going to throw chips out that way.