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Consider trying a triple hinge, all the way through. Stick a wedge, dowel, whatever, in the first kerf (allowing you to visually extend the first bored cut) to help you when lining up the next bored kerf, rinse and repeat. If any hinge is too thick, you can whittle it thinner. I'd aim to...

I backcut mind at the top of the full gap.

Not you, but some people have no finesse with power.

IDK about a triple hinge being to slow a tree. Speed/ momentum is important to not ask the failing hinge to do work for too long. There is speed of pull, sometimes jerking ask a result, especially with a less experienced puller, and there is keeping tension up on the pull, as Gerry informs...

I used to be a Tamarix aphylla killa at Lake Mead for the Great Basin Institute.

Jacking and wedging is a very slow process. When a poorly hinging tree starts to loose hinge fibers to breakage as the tree moves, it's going to go with gravity. Recently, I had to pull over a slightly backleaning bigleaf maple with decay. The homeowner was trying to "help", even though I'd...

I'm going to be hella impressed if you can bore 42" through a tree with the needed accuracy. Boring dead-dead-on through a 42" tree for a full-gap facecut is a trick. You will have basically no degrees of slop with the shark-gill/ triple-hinge. I've used the triple hinge with good success...