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Especially hard-leaners being chunked back, removing so much weight that was bending the trunk, one must avoid the Circle Of Death by using bridge Ds or bridge connection instead of hip D, good cuts, cuts just above forks, and sometimes binding. A chain loop with a grab-hook, tightened with...

An ax chopped Humboldt!

First day back to written in 2.5 weeks. Killed two firs way too close to the house to keep , and pruned a large Japanese maple away from the house and cleared thick grape vines grown into the tree while the house was vacant. Homeowner cleanup! Helped a friend with a yard renovation ...

From the Circle of Death thread

Understandably so.

He sounds like a badass! Looks like he trains hard!

I've recently found that whizzy/ sizwheels help steer some hard-to-steer branches-- doug-fir.

In guessing that's a thick hinge, pulled hard, giving lots of fiber pull. Triple hinge/ whizzy might work enough without such fiber pull. Maybe not!

He's on TB.

How much barberchairing do you run into? Only a few species here, aside from loaded trees (e.g. felling a support tree holding a tipped tree) want to BC. Thick hinge... lots of fiber pull. Undesireable for butt logs at the mill...$ deduction, to my understanding. If I'm trying to hold a...

The pith is, from my armchair, the worst to have within/ right near the hinge. Bigleaf maples can be heard crack and pop very audibly at a significant distance. My guess is that happens as I approach the pith. I can feel and hear it pop over the gas saw. When chunking short (~6-10') qmaple...

I missed a change in direction from BC-propensity to back leaners. Working on a small screen and two weeks of being very tired.

Yes. Makes sense!

IDK that the order would help. No wedges needed with a head leaner.

I avoid a facecut when knocking off leaning, short logs in barberchair- prone trees. I cut them like bucking to avoid a split. Cut around the log on 4 'sides' leaving a center square of holding wood. Cut the holding wood square from tension toward compression. No splitting and they slide off...

I'm still unclear what is being visually represented here.

I like that nugget for teaching : "The 80+/10- rule"

In the picture with the face-cut, are you setting up to pull against the lean or...?

That was my guess about who and why.