Build Your Sawing Skills: Cutting Wood with Compression and Tension

If you’ve ever gotten your saw stuck cutting, or you’ve had a tree or branch you’re cutting spring back, the wood you were curing was under compression and tension.
Wood under compression and tension requires extra care when you’re cutting to keep your saw free and to keep you safe.

As a Silky Saws ambassador, Travis Vickerson explains in this video, how compression and tension go hand in hand. When one side of a branch or tree is under compression, the other side is under tension. Vickerson provides some useful technique tips in this video on how to approach wood under compression and tension, and how to diffuse both with your Silky so that you can safely cut.