Some put the flat cut first, some put the angle, some do a conventional notch, some do a humboldt, some people open it up real wide etc.
Forestry fellers tend to put the angle in first, I work with one here occasionally and that's what they were taught.
When we did our course we were told neither is absolutely correct over the other but do what works for you. I have been cutting doing the flat one first for so long it's spot on.
But you still use the gunning sights on the saw. You'll notice many people of either persuasion also lie the saw in the notch flat then check by looking down the gunning sights.
Also, I cut a lot of my scarfs from standing at the front of the tree, and same when I'm up a tree. Surprisingly I have done so many of them they're pretty bang on by tracing the gunning sight over my left shoulder. You simply cannot in all circumstances cut a notch comfortably from behind.
Tim, when I wrote this,
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Just improve your saw skills, accuracy is not an issue really.
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I mean if you improve your saw skills accuracy isn't an issue coz it comes with practice, to me cutting with an undersize bar ... I fear not to be accurate coz I know I will be. Yes, perhaps I could have worded it better
(accuracy is not really an issue if you improve your saw skills to gain it)but the idea is if you can be well accomplished in many situations you'll be a better sawyer for it.
Some guys simply are stuffed when the bar cant deal with the tree in one easy swoop. However if you were production felling that's a different story. I like to shake it up a bit, also the largest bar I have is a 25" on a 66, and I aint been caught out yet but I am in suburbia.
