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Out on a limb far enough to get beyond the fence line.

So in my semi-retirement, I repair n sharpen chainsaws in my community among friends n family. But friends n family don’t necessarily meet minimum standards by a long shot, particularly those that think they’re two stroke capable wrenchers. I’ve got three grinders, each set for either small...

I certainly enjoy happy endings, particularly when they’re profitable!

Happiness is an aromatic conifer fire.

Better safe than totally fugged….

Too much pull or too much lean can both generate barber chairs IME.

Perhaps my euc driven career has led me to not trusting hingewood integrity in a leaning situation. i have found that conifer or softwood hinges are far more tenacious than hardwood hinges: indeed in smaller pines I have found that triangular hinges can result in a slow fall that once limbed...

Oh fug!

I respectively disagree Burnham ole buddy. Had I not put the pull line on at 90 feet the second shed would’ve been in serious jeopardy had the lean overpowered the hinge wood. It had an eastward lean that the winch line over came. I put just enough serious pull on it to avoid a barber chair...

Yu mean a bull line through a redirect pulley to a winch line? Musta been pure coincidence the trunk pointed directly at the pulley!

Once I’d dropped it with a 660, I used my new 500i to buck it into 16 foot sections. My buddy and his three young sons were so impressed by the 500i’s performance, they rushed out and bought one the very next day.

There was a second shed in harms way But it fell exactly inline with the redirect pulley Bingo!

Not really but they had to dismantle as patio Feed storage shed and a couple sections of corral fencing n posts

Dumped the whole thing with a guideline at 90 feet

125 feet and a little under 5 foot dbh 12 K winch tied off to another truck