Tree cut height, tree service vs logger?

[Jim_Rogers]

I learned timber harvesting back in the 80's from a very old sawyer. I was cutting logs for him to saw at his Lane #1 sawmill.

I asked him how low to cut the stump.

He told me to set my chain saw on the ground, roll it onto its side and start cutting. He wanted every inch of saw log he could get. 

The reason why was so that when you make your buck cut that you have the sweep in a log in the big end of the log. That's so that the sweep could be cut off in the opening slabs.

I always tried to do that, because as I learned, there were times when you needed 3, 4 or 6" more of log to make it a good saw log.

It was not fun dealing with the root flare at the bottom of the tree, but I did it.

Jim Rogers