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Most of the stuff we thin, I mark for thinning. I don't like thinning with the saw, it is too slow IMO. I prefer to run through the stand with a spray can and mark the trees to be cut. That way whoever in our crew falls them, can concentrate on felling them instead of having to multi task. In...

I can see that happening easy enough. That scenario was not one I had thought about! I will in the future, thanks.

How? I've always made a habit of piling the cut off butresses and face 3-5 feet in front of the face cut. Help keep the end of the log out of the mud, making trimming it easier We never do the yahoo hollering and victory dance when felling or topping trees. We want to give the client the...

Willie's dutchman idea seems to fit the situation. If he had simply cut the hinge thin enough to break like that, the tree would have wedged over easy. Bad workmanship, simply. It was a tree that any competent faller could have put in the lay without the help of lines.

Cody, the cutting them high and then ALAP'ing the stump had me wondering. Is that because you are used to running full wrap saws, so you can't get the saw body close to the ground? I didn't sit through the whole 45 minutes, it reminded me too much of being at work, so I just browsed through it...

Nice. If you can limb and buck as smooth as you can fall those peckerpoles, you'd make a hell of a pulpcutter. Trees that size is just what the felling bar is great forforcing over. Way faster than wedges. I got the "Needle gauge" trick from Burnham. Really useful and previously unknown in...

I use the angled cuts when the lean of the tree is too steep/vertical for the normal cut to be feasible. Works fine, but you don't want to get your foot caught under the log as it comes down. When I have to take a tree down that way, whatever is cut will be left in the woods to rot, since it is...

I think most woods fallers have done that a time or two. On swampy ground it is even more fun.

Too much inbreeding will do that. The ones we have here are usually pretty solid. One of my favourite trees to take down. The Hobbs or GRCS really makes it fun. Lots of trips up and down for the climber, though. We were called out to do one a few years back, where someone else had bailed out...

Jed, I had a partner for about 5 years who would let me fall all the difficult trees next to buildings, lines, whatever. He had just as much falling experience as I did, but simply didn't have the nerves for it. Where I would decide on a plan and then just do it, he would start second guessing...

Use whatever "gimmick cut" on enough trees and one will start to get an idea of it's efficiency. The ones that I'm comfortable with, I've used 100s of times over the years.

I used it a lot when I was felling pulp. Relatively small trees and easily compressed fibers. It work particularly fine on Norway spruce pica abies where the springyness of the fibers can actually push the tree over as the cut is released. ( On a fair standing tree, not a backleaner) But on the...

Thanks Burnham. So that guy was the originator of " It was a dark and stormy night" as well. I thought Snoopy came up with that one:lol: Since my version of the quarter cut is most likely different from Dave's, I'll wait for him to explain, so as not to confuse "the great unwashed masses"...

So how ling are we giving dave, Burnham, before one of us have to explain it and put " the great unwashed masses" ( Wonderful phrase BTW. where is it from?) out of their misery?

Easily done, that:P

Block face and a bunch of wedges. I think Burnham would have gone the same way, except he is not as enamoured of the block face as I. I only use it for potential troublesome trees, and from the pictures, that didn't look like one, so I might just have felled it the way I usually do. But, as...

Yup! Just a lousy faller. If he had set a line, things would likely have gone different. Mind you, I wouldn't set a line in a tree like that.:)

And such an easy tree at that!

Nope, not a single one. I take the occasional picture, but video is beyond me. Maybe sometime I'll get an apprentice who is into that.

Scott, honestly, is he worth spending time on? Yes, I know, sometimes I can't help myself either. And as for the first part of your post, I totally agree. The two of us are as different as people can be, but still always manage to have, fun, civilized discussions. A trademark of the House:)