What are the advantages and disadvantages of sawing in North-South direction?

Question

And / Or, in magnetic poles direction?

And / Or in direction of “north pole star”?

Answer 1

None, really none.

The only thing is that most smaller farms were surveyed on a grid that made them much longer in the north-south direction than in the east-west direction.

That meant you did not have to turn around as often if you went north-south, thus saving time and energy.

Answer 2

If you saw all the trees in the same direction, then they will fall in the same direction and you will be able to collect them to take them to the sawmill more easily.

Could be any direction.  But since it is easier to determine a north - south direction in a forest, by the moss on the north side of the tree, that was the direction selected.

Answer 3

I have heard this to, but have never heard a reason for it, and never seen it on paper. My guess is that in the old days, when most sawing was done outside setting the saw N/S lessened the difference in temperature of the blade caused by the heat of the sun on a hot day so the saw ran truer. Now days most mills are set up in a shed, so its not as important.

my mills set north to south.

Much like the rule, never set a car battery on concrete, it will go dead..

this was true, when battery's were made of glass, and easily broken, but not anymore.

Answer 4

they will track with the path of the sun better but throw a longer shadow for most of the day.  

your plant spacing can be less but row spaceing would need to be increased.

sowing north south has nothing really to do with magnetics its about the average track of the sun through the growing season

Answer 5

Repeated sawing in a north-south direction for several years will magnetize your saw.