Echo CS-7310P (no W yet..). First outing Into The Wilds.

Filmed April, 2021
As a rule, I never take a stock saw "into the bush". But, rules are made to be broken...
A lot of talk about this saw it "wood" seem. I find that it runs okay. Not great. Okay. Try and bushel with one in stock form, no thanks. Help a friend out in need, sure.
In the interest of it was late in the afternoon and the sun was setting, I did not take a bunch of time to elaborate on what was going on.
Initial mumblings (~ the :48 mark) throwing my NBFF under the bus for not getting the donor handle to me in time for a saw shop make over full wrap alteration for this particular outing, Wink, Wink. Technically, it took a "minute" to get the bars into the saw shop. Not sure if it was parademic related or a minimum amount order needed for free shipping at the shop. At any rate, a nice opportunity to get the one up on Mr. Ryder...
The small tree was leaning out across the creek. In the look up (~ the 1:29 mark), we notice that the top was surrounded by limbs from the bigger tree. No way to fall it off to the left without having the top clearing the limbs of the bigger tree. This required a "pseudo swing". Although, not a "true swing" by definition, I faced the small tree straight at the creek with the deck kerf. I then aimed the bias or diagonal cut (New Age Humboldt from the bottom) short on the far side, to the left. This created a Dutchmen on the far side. As the small tree was moving forward, I was gradually relieving the far side holding wood which let the tree "schwing" around to the left as/and it cleared the limbs was travelling forward. Knowing your wood is an important part of the equation. Nuance,, it's all about the nuance..
I was mumbling (~ the 3:07 mark) about the muscle memory reflex action of going for the handle on the clutch side that isn't there...
This tree was leaning down the hill so I put the back cut in first as to not lose any more leverage.
We can see around the 6:02 mark that the face is open on the uphill side more so than the down hill side. This was purposeful. The tree leaned back and down from the intended lay. Fist tree in this location. Although I had an idea of how the wood would hold, I wanted to be safe with the face.
a little bit of tickling in the heartwood on the backside and then pounding on the wedges.
End result we have the tree quartered up the hill where Scott can easily process it into fire wood.
I'm hopeful that "oncest" the 7310 get on the operating table for a little "Saw Shop Makeover" it will come alive. Time will tell...
Thanks for watching.

Hello. An outing into the bush helping a friend in need with some
"die-rectional" felling. "Die" in the sense that if things go wrong, my name is Mudd and Scott has extra work on his hands. And yes, took full advantage of throwing my NBFF under the bus!