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Charlie Foxtrot...clusterfuck.

Sometimes, piecing things down can aid in processing the material without a CF.

Is there room to dump it. Looks like a bent up fence. What would it take to remove the fence wire and horizontals, and replace a post, if needed?

Trees can shut down parts during drought, regrowing in better conditions.

Habitat!

On trail crew, I think our gentle persuader was a 12 or 15# sledge, with smaller hammers on down to 2.5# 'single jacks'. Those were some workouts.

If you keep the nose in the inside of the log, where it's clean, the pulling chain will knock the dirt off to the outside. If you're keeping the nose outside the log, you will pull dirt and rocks into the kerf.

I don't know anything about eucs. What do you mean about snapping if with a standard wedge face? Momentum is your friend. As much as I like and use wedges, pull lines are useful in poor-hinging species. Beware tall back-cuts and spiral grain. Consider shaving the bark and looking at the...

I so prefer a 20" or 28" to a 42" and required power head. Just so heavy. 32" and larger are a lot more unweildy, aloft. So long as you leave enough on the sides, it doesn't need to be 1/2 the width. Gutting the middle helps it tip with thicker corners. I don't think that there is any...

Re: spitting out wedges I've been buying thrift store cutting boards to cut into stackers. I've only cut one so far. Works great. This is @stig 's trick. Only one wedge per stack. Bandsawing the mushroomed heads cleans then up. Easier than that can be to set the wedge well into a kerf and...

Was this cut from both sides? The uneven hinge will take more force to bend over than a straight hinge. If cutting from both sides, on a solid tree, you don't need the inner hinge as much as the corners (like hollow trees, and gutted hinges). If you dip the tip too far into the center, when...

Be wary of spiral grain mixed with tall hinges!

Have you tried a triple hinge? I seem to see the triple-hinge used on the tension side of leaners. A careful sawyer (maybe using a visual guide, such as a dowel set into the rear of the rear of the facecut and then the bore-cut between hinges, allowing parellel plunging) might be able to get...

Sounds terribly inaccurate, especially on slopes. I'll try it and report back.

What does looking through your legs show?

A clinometer app is useful for measuring accurately. On flat ground, 45⁰ works easily. On a slope, you need a bit of easy math and measuring from the base to your angle- measuring point.

What are the goals for the live tree?