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I just think of them as tools, Reg. They have their place in logging, one just has to know their limitations. No offence taken.

Doubt it. From what I've seen of your work, you've got plenty of cojones. I'll do a trick cut when I see the need for it, but in the total percentage of the trees I fall, it is maybe under one half a percent or less. When I do it, it is for a specific reason, such as saving myself the work of...

Ah, I didn't know the tree was rotten. Whole 'nother scenario. Anyway, I'm glad you posted the result. I wish more people would do the same, looking at each other's work is the only way we can learn and get better at felling trees. Eventually some day I'll learn how to do video and be able to...

Two things. Gut the hinge. That makes it act like two blocks of wood, instead of one block of wood with schizophrenia. Burnham recently made a post in answer to one of mine, saying something like, since it is the corners things happens, what do we need the middle for. Between Burnham and...

I don't get it, Pete. It followed your facecut precisely. That is what a whizzy is for. To counter lean. If you wanted it to go more to the left, why didn't you aim your face cut more to the left? If you wanted it to start out going straight, to get it past the roof, and then to curve left,You...

Part of being succesful at stunts like that is to know the fiber strength of all the different species one gets to fall. Takes a while to accumulate that knowledge.

Thanks, Burnham,. Coming from you, that means a lot. I forgot to mention that I made the stump about 4" higher than i normally would, in order to have straight fibers for my hinge. Just thought I'd mention that before someone accuses me of having spent too much time in the PNW;)

I bored the center of the hinge, yes. I always do, when employing a whizzy. NO WAY I'd pull that one off near a house. I walked around this tree for 5 minutes before deciding that I could fell it. Worst case scenario on this one was a lot of clean-up from the field and a major embarrasment for...

I got a larger than normal effect from a whizzy/block undercut on friday. Had a fair size beech standing at the edge of a forest with a lot of weight and side lean towards the field outside the forest+a bit of back lean to the only place I could drop it. After venting some steam by bitching...

Frig it! Here I was trying to be cute, with the axiom thing, and you shoot me right out of the sky! Lesson learned, don't try to be cute in any other language but the one you were born into:lol:

Nice to see the Whizzy on video. Did you gut the hinge? If not, would you do me a favour and gut the next one, then tell me if it feels to you like it makes a difference. I have been employing a theory for years ( actually by now, I have got to the point where I hold it to be self evident, so...

That's great.

Yes, of course the german will increase the chance of a barber chair. ANYTHING that makes the hinge stronger, be it thickness or flexibilytywise, will increase the chance of a barberchair. That is simple logic. But why would anybody put a German into a heavy leaner? Unless they were trying to...

That is all I use, but I have no idea if it actually works better on those two.

I don't always do anything. I try to do what the situation calls for within the specifications from the mill that is to recieve the logs. On a lot of the trees I fall, I could make my life a lot easier if I made a PNW style stump in order to get into some straight fiber, but it would ruin the...

Don't try to use the step dutchman to make it go against a side lean, that is pretty much bound to fail. Where I use it is when I have a sideleaner that needs to go around an obstacle like a stump, rock or another tree. By falling it sideways to the lean and then using the dutchman to break...

We've been through this in another thread with pictures and all. Probably amongst the things we lost in the fire. Not much chance for me to do another set of pix untill logging season starts.

Yes, especially then. If a tree falls in the forest with no one to see it go wrong, did it really go wrong?

No kidding, Jer! Example: I was asked by a state forrester to fell an oak tree next to his house. The thing had a bad side lean and there was not much of a lay to put it into, so he asked me if he should call in a skidder with a winch. I told him not to bother, felled that thing with a German...

I don't use a "normal" dutchman at all. Like Willie says, too hard to tame. You get wildly different result depending on the fiber strength of the particular tree you're falling. I fall a lot of valuable logs and there is a clause in our felling contract stating how big a percentage of those we...