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Willy, it about went to the gun. You are correct in not wanting it up hill. Wanted it to swing off the gun down hill. I cut way too high. Gutting the hinge on this tree would have been fruitless. When I did the vertical cut behind the hinge, I found out how bad the condition of the wood was...

A lot of times I'll use a soft Dutchman and nip the corner off if I have a good escape route. Most of what we have here now, you hate to pound on for fear of a top or large limb breaking out during the process. Most I'll shoot a line in to help or be able to set wedges and walk a distance before...

I read ya. Makes sense. This was a poor tree to try it on, but one has to try to learn. If I had done it with a gutted hinge in this case, corner I lost on the whizzy side still would have failed. Once I bored in behind the hinge and saw the dust of death coming out, I was pretty sure I best...

Since the subject has come up again in another thread talking about the triple hinge, I thought I would bump this and share one. I was trying to demonstrate the cut for Mike on a tree we had to fell into a slot that required a little swing off a multi leader oak we wanted to save. It had some...

I tell them it is my magic saw. ;)

My first impression as well.. it landed in a nice tight spot clean... That in my book is a successful fell.

Your apprentice is lucky he gets to tap some of that knowledge Stig.

Awesome.. I would have liked to have witnessed that one from start to finish. Makes you feel like you are glowing when something like that comes together. :thumbup: Well, at least as close as I can relate in felling terms ;) That one there would be beyond my skills.

That one did not look like very much fun to me at all.. But that is what does make the job more interesting...

I saved this from a thread a while back....

Have yet to try it myself.. Been either climbing everything, straight fell, or something leaning so off the lay, it need pulled over... :P

Damn straight :rockon:

Ditto. Looks interesting :)

Trying to figure how the cut would effect the tree's fall. Almost looks like once the face closes, the whizzy comes into play allowing the tree to swing away from the lean in your drawing. Just trying to understand it Willie...

So the whizzy swings it off the lean after the face closes?