u/Trenin23

I have a chainsaw and a number of small ish trees less than 12 inches in diameter. A few are bigger, but not much. They are still heavy and tall so I know they are dangerous if you aren't careful.

I do not have plastic wedges.

A point of contention between my wife who doesn't cut down trees and myself is how deep to make the first cut. My feeling is that I want to make the first cut pretty deep - over half. That way when I do the back cut it wont pinch. My thought was I am making a large teeter-totter and I need to put the fulcrum/hinge at the point that makes one side heavier. By making the first cut deeper, the tree will be heavier on the side I want the tree to fall to and it won't fall back and pinch the blade.

My wife says I was doing it wrong and only needed to cut 1/4 to 1/3. She ended up going to the Internet and feels validated because that is the consensus. However, she can't explain why this is better. My understanding is based on common sense and I know that if I only cut 1/3, the saw will get pinched when my back cut gets to the hinge because more weight is on the back of the tree.

I know that if I had plastic wedges (which she thinks is unnecessary), then I would agree on a smaller first cut and pound the wedges in as I do the back cut. However, without then I am struggling to see how a smaller first cut helps. In my mind, it will make it more likely to fall the wrong way.

Can someone explain why I should be doing this or if my common sense feeling is correct?

Thanks!

With the new extrinsics from dragon mail, I was wondering if anyone had any new kit rollouts? I heard someone using blue dragon mail for speed, freeing up the boot slot for fireproof water walking boots.

For me, the standard is the following:

• SDSM
• Boots of Speed
• GoP or GoD
• HoB

Then, for MR, either a cloak, or maybe my quest item or magicbane. Cloak is usually the safest, but then it means having a ring of protection to get up to MC3.

But the above lets you put whatever you want in the amulet spot. I like flying a lot, so that is what I prefer.

If I am playing a class that can't two-weapon, I might go with a shield of reflection and then GDSM. Cloak is now a robe or a cloak of protection for MC3. Amulet is again flying.

Just wondering what everyone's thoughts are.

I am playing a Samurai right now because I wanted to try out the new Snickersnee and I like it so far. I rarely melee anything I don't have too, but it takes time. I have only reflection via amulet, but I have 2 magic lamps so could start filling out my kit when I started wondering what I should get. I have a ring of poly control, so poly traps aren't super annoying, but still I prefer to avoid them when possible. I have a couple other artifacts so wishing for magicbane is not going to happen. I also have a +0 HoB which is kind of wasted on a Samurai but may come in handy and I'm not going to switch it out for something different for 1 extra AC. Although a helm of telepathy might be useful. I think I'll bite the bullet on GDSM because I am not sure how much longer I can roll the dice on a touch of death.

Anyway, just want to hear if the new dragon extrinsics change peoples rollouts.