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I got on a nasty storm damaged locust years ago. Backyard no equipment access... started whittling away at the limbs ... got down to the wood and said.. now there's got to be a way to make this work.. if I was the best tree cutter in the world how would I cut this.. and it just came to me...

Nice one Butch.. really four words but you used the contraction to keep it to three!!!

Why did they ever ban you in the first place... most of your posts were unde 3 words.. hard to get in throuble with three words! :D

That's a great observation and pretty cool! Between youtube and these forums there has been a huge amount of collective knowledge shared making it MUCH easier to learn from the experience of others.... I;ve been on these forums for near 15 years and learned A HUG AMOUNT from them.... MUCH more...

80% refers to the hinge being 80% the length of the diameter of the tree. Though its not clear is that the widest point of the hinge, the narrowest, or the average... most trees are not round, they may be more oval or irregular, so the 80% rule superceeds the 1/3 diameter rule by saying as long...

The 1/3 or 80% rule shouldn't be a "rule".. more a guidline for rookies.. VERY FEW arbs or even arb intructors, I would guess, can explain in accurate detail the "why" of it.. If you don't know the why then you alos don't know the "why not" and there are plenty of situations where its better to...