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With so much compression forces, is reaming the cut an actual possibility?

Stig spoke once about the major root pull he got to impress his crew and warn them against this danger. He himself was impressed:lol: It was a cut all the way back to outside, I think, but he didn't have the time to do so (as planned) and the ground exploded. I never experienced that. Looks...

Yes at the stump, not at a crotch between two co-leaders if you locked the butt above the cut. At the outside half of both axis at a crotch, the grain is tighter but still pretty straight. The split is a little more difficult but very doable, unlike the sides and the central part of the crotch...

Don't forget that aloft, the trunk can easily split downward if the upward side is locked. Not good if you're lanyarded on it. My buddy took a good ride downstairs on an ash due to that.

If the trunk began to split that far above the cut, that means it has already started to barber chair by the internal stress from the pulling, see the split in the middle of some limbs by the wind or by their own weight. It didn't fall apart because something locked the split near the cut, I...