The guy who made the shark gill vid uses them for winched back learners so they don’t break off too soon…but I think in green wood. Dry is hopeless. Rope, aim, momentum like @SeanKroll says. I have more to play with up there Monday.
The tree actually already had a rope in it from someone trying to brute force pull it over…but this was a wood fiber/hinge/cut experiment. Dead dry. No cheating! Was a long ways in the lay to where I could pull from and don’t currently have the winch in the truck. I wish I had a jack, I would...
Today experimented: a block face quad gill on a side leaning dead dry oak. Hit the lay but beat my guts out with wedges for nearly 15
Minutes. Had them 4 high at the end. Multiplate hinges are for pulling, not wedging. 😆
If I’d had a vehicle to pull faster (inertia like @SeanKroll says) I would have dumped the whole tree. 🤠
Depending on species I would have done a gap aka block face, more hinge. *except he did mention he wanted it to break eventually.
Higher back cut, conventional vs. bore. If you gotta pull...
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