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Keep getting lucky shots, it might turn out you aren't all that lucky, and the wood's going where you want it to.

I hate ladders. I don't like using them for anything. My last time on a ladder(doing my wtf tree), I'm not sure which I liked least; cutting down through the top, and trying to miss my flipline, or up on a ladder backchaining with my 661. I felt more secure on spurs, but had the possibility of...

I think what you(and me) are seeing as a hinge isn't anything. It's just some ragged wood casting shadows. I think the real hinge is 90° from the apparent hinge. Mick said the white thing is a jack handle. I'll have to take his word for it, but if you squint, it does kind of look like there's a...

Checkout the discussion I linked. The "hinge" is apparently a visual anomaly, and you can see a jack on the side of the camera, and it was presumably intended to fall away from the camera.

Maybe I didn't see a longer version. Mick posted it here, and there's some analysis... https://www.masterblasterhome.com/threads/tree-felling-vids.11368/page-321

I've seen that video before, and longer. I think I used to have it on my computer, but probably got deleted to recover space. I don't remember the full video, but this one looks like it went where it was aimed. Close enough anyway. Close enough to move the trucks if it doesn't go exactly as...

There's something to be said for doing it just cause you can. Makes the day more fun when you do stuff out of the ordinary.

Dunno if I buy his conclusion. He says flexibility's caused by moisture content. There shouldn't be any moisture content in a tool handle.

Is that the idea? I thought it was to give everything room to move so there's less rigidity in the structure, and all the components tend to stay intact longer. I was trying to think of a desktop example. Maybe a popsicle stick. Put it in a vice with the base anchored, and the jaws a little...

Isn't that a variation of a triple hinge? I don't see why the wood has to be completely gone. Just needs to be thin enough to move when pressed.

Think he should've cut his faces deeper to reduce levering it off the stem?

Chilton manuals sucked. Their pictures looked like they were taken through a dirty window with a potatocam. Haynes were good manuals. The Volkswagon Idiots Guide was the paragon of repair manuals. Hand drawn pictures that made everything easy to see, and interesting tips and anecdotes spread...

I share Burnham's view of it. Maybe a couple times a year I'll watch several videos in a row of someone I think is doing/saying something interesting, but it's usually just a tool to get something done. Even with that, I usually prefer text and a few pics. It can be useful to judge the force...

I can only comment on the clearing I see, which is mostly the same guy/company, but also some others of unknown origin. It's pretty much all standard face cuts. This is both for getting it all done and gone(timber value is a lesser concern), and cutting for timber value.

He matched his cuts up nicely. Probably has it's place as a specialty cut, but I don't see how you could log a woods doing that. There's no control over the tree. Every tree will go where it wants to go, so there's a 1:36 chance of it being where the faller wants it to go assuming 10° is...

It's probably good to know for that one out of a couple times in your life when it's just the cut you need to get a job done. It also looks fun to cut, and would be a good trick to impress the natives.

No trouble losing your rails while pushing?

Snickers ice cream bars.

Could use more time on a rope, and less in a bucket.