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I asked an expert.

Cutting with the blade parallel to the ground, makes gravity work with us,  but we are standing on the ground, so we tend to cut at an angle.  This makes the branch twist around the cut and grab the saw.

This is why a lot of professional saw on a stick have a bend so the saw is level with the ground when it cuts the branches.

Update

Lambs don't seem to be big into ukulele.  It might be because they were newborn and looking for milk, so I'm off to try again.  

For live tree pruning, I do a small cut at the bottom first - maybe quarter to half an inch deep.  Then cut from the top down.

I don't know chainsaw safety well, so this might be wrong.  but I saw someone do it once and it seems okay when the chain saw is on the pole.  I do the first cut with the tip of the blade if I can't get in there properly.  

I don't know why it pinches without that first cut.  I blame physics for being stupid.

Thinking on it some more, the tradition in the family is to do the small branch pruning first, then once all that's done with hand pruners or pole pruner, get the saw.  I just sort of kept the tradition.  But now I'm wondering if it's to make using the saw easier?  

I don't know. I feel like I'm really bad at pruning as they always complain I take off too much.  I just do my best and each year, cut it back a bit more.  

Carol Deppe's book in vegetable breeding goes into detail and has good citations for you to find more info.

Hint, the easiest way is prevention. Next is genetics and selection.  More complicated than just selecting for ones without.  

Treatment includes soil health as many things live in soil over winter.

And laxt of all, treatment of seeds depends on the specific type.  But easier to avoid this step if the other steps can be done first.  

Whatever the choice, don't forget a control section where you don't do the thing.

This helps explain something I'm struggling to articulate.  I noticed sometimes someone can play a song and be technically perfect, but there is no feeling in the music.

Also, I need to learn this song.

More composition and value rough studies

This reminded me of this thread so popped it here just in case it's useful to anyone

Luthier talks about the advantage of hot hide glue for instrument making like guitars over modern alternatives, and how to use hide glue in guitar build and repair.  Looks like he is buying in granular form and making it as needed.

Complications with Lambing season means cutting my fingernails as short as possible every other day.  It's less than comfortable.  

It also means that I can't make the pleasant sound like I could before.  My nails were still quite short, but they were enough to do the guitar strokes as described in the book.

It looks like guitar playing and nails swing back and forth throughout history.  Some centuries all long nails (like now), others only sort nails will do.  So I need to dedicate some time to see how to play during short nail months.

Still at the start of open string music staff reading.   It's proving tricky for my brain, so I'm focused more on metronome and just going over and over the exercises in the Noad book.  Sometimes I try to make each note the same volume. Sometimes the first note per bar loudest.  Trying to keep it interesting while I build muscle memory.

I'm waiting for my fingers to stop forgetting which string is which.  Sometims they loose their place and sometimes the get confused between up and down.  But it's slowly getting better.

Not much, just gesso for a new project

Reminds me of my desire to learn about oil gesso ground but alas, I am starting painting tomorrow so this will have to do.

Reading music.

Same issues I was having with TAB and ukulele.  The parallel lines squirm and blend together.

I fixed this with ukulele tab by writing it out bigger.   But I lack patience to write out every single piece of music I want to play.

Made an appointment for my eyes as it's been a few years since the glasses stopped fixing this.