draging blade back through last cut

[backwoods sawyer]

For shorter board the tailor fold them together and the can keep up at a walk, longer boards and they need to pick up the pace a bit if they are taking them one at a time. I like to stay a couple passes ahead of the tailor so that it holds the bottom boards to the bedrails.
If you have a tall stack and are raising up and over because you are by yourself, cut half way thru and then clear the stack, then finish cutting the stack.

[ljmathias]

Well, can't keep quiet any longer so here's my 2 cents worth: everytime I've tried to pull the blade back through red oak or SYP, it hangs up.  If I wasn't watching for it (based on several blade pop-offs) and stopped immediately, I'd have spent a lot of time remounting blades.   So to make a short story longer: I don't even try anymore unless I have to because of hitting metal and loosing sharp with the blade diving all over the place, and even then, I pry up the board and SLOWLY walk the head back in fits and spurts.  I just don't see how popping a blade off even once a day is worth the time you might save pulling back through the cut, but then again, I never cut for speed, just quality (I say with a grin- if you've seen my lumber, you know that as an amateur it's not the quality that counts, just the fact that I can do it.     )

Sure would like to hear more success stories though- or even stories about crashes and blades popping off: makes me feel right at home here.

Lj

[Magicman]

While we are adding 2¢, here's mine.  I never drag the band back through the cut either.

I release the clutch, raise the sawhead to clear the cant/lumber, reverse to the front, bump the down lever, ( I have/use Setworks) engage the clutch as the sawhead lowers, and begin the next cut.

We all get into our own rhythm of sawing.  Manipulating the controls become second nature.  There isn't a "right" or "wrong".   We do what works for us individually and what we are comfortable with.