Yep a little bypass. The hinge chunk closest in the pic is easily a foot square and mostly rotten. Near perfect line angles to pull with wide open LZ once it overcame the lean. Far side of the hinge was sound and where I finished the backcut, wider than normal notch, for me anyways.
Ok where to begin? The tree was about 70'ish skinny maybe 16" on the stump with a slight lean to the left. If it didn't have the lean I could have dumped the whole ting. Wires on the street side, house to the right and left, wind blowing in my favor away from the wires. Saw was a Nutball modded...
I've cut just shy of 2000 ash tree in the last seven years, EAB is just about gone. I would suggest you face up your tree and use line angle to control any drift instead of trying to steer the tree with the hinge.
Yep, it started to barberchair and you stayed with the cut a bit longer. I would guess pulling on it while trying to swing it at the same time was the problem. Ash doesn't like to be swung just an FYI.
The slight bypass did nothing to steer the log and either way it didn't matter as the DZ was wide open and the tree was already brushed out because I couldn't flop it whole and leaned hard over the house and vintage cast iron lamp post from the mid 1800's. The HO was more concerned for the lamp...
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