I have been finding myself making deeper notches recently. I like the longer hinge and less time it takes to cut through the back cut. I find it easier to make accurate face cuts when they are deeper and need to adjust less often.
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He tree that I was working in was straight up and down. It had a little bit of weight going backwards but not much. I guess it's good to hear that there are no "rules" to follow in this situation. It seems that you need to trust you gut and do what seems right.
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We didn't want to risk it not working. But we have done things like that before. One trainer that I saw along the way said that those tone really work anyway. But we still do it sometimes. I think I've seen it work so I will continue to use that method in certain situations.
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We have always gone below in the past when something like that happens. That last time my partner did it, the branch did sort of a Barber chair and the branch when where the original (higher up) notch was facing it towards. It's usually not a big deal but the poplar that I was in yesterday was...
Yesterday I was removing a stone dead Lombardi Poplar and didn't want to go too high. This meant that I had to take a pretty big top out..... No rigging, just bomb it out. I put a face cut into the stem in the direction that I thought would place the top in a good location. My partner was...
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