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I can see an application if you need to bridge over an object with a species that won't hinge, where you can pick up the felled whole piece, once horizontal, with a machine. I removed a spruce over a small hedge, permission to squash the laurel granted. A wide face and spruce's hinge-holding...

With a kerf in the front, underside, I'd suspect.

The root disease project that I worked on at the preschool had to be long-butted (cut tall stumps and/ or keep cutting until you get clean wood in the butt of the log), then start measuring. All were #2 and #3 domestic saw logs. Growth rings toward the end of their life prevented any from being...

There's value in trees beyond someone seeing them.

Big skidder don't care! At State Parks, we had a heck of a hard leaning Bigleaf Maple. Too dangerous to try a conventional hinge. Rotten in the butt, and BIG, thick in butt, and wide, leaning downhill toward some type of basic kitchen shelter/ pavillion . We set a throw line to pull up a rope...

Not a barberchair.

A fun thing to do, and teaching thing, is let them pull and pull and pull and pull when there is no backcut. Can you pull harder? Harder? Tell them a pull rope in their hands means to pull like hammer in their hand means to continuously pound things. Let them wear themselves out some, then...

People do like to pull hard then cut, rather than set a wedge or two to prevent sit-back, get the hinge right, then pull.