Lumber Jack and Jill

THE OPEN FACE LOOKS LIKE AN OPEN FACE. Pick it and you now cut two sloping cuts that meet at a point — the Pac-Man mouth on every training poster — instead of a level cut with a steeper roof, which was the conventional face wearing a different label. The rail says LOWER instead of LEVEL for the first cut, the saw comes in from below, and the caption calls it what it is: open face (Pac-Man). The physics was always right about it; the picture was not. ONE DRIVE, NOT TWO. Finishing the taught tree, going to camp, picking a stand and driving out used to end in the easy/hard question and then a second drive to the same place. The question now hands you straight back to the tree you drove to. THE SAW SITS IN ITS CUT. On every sloping cut the bar's nose used to lag behind the kerf it was making, worst on the widest face. It travels the diagonal now.