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So today I was playing around with some different cuts. It was a silver maple, the canopy had a heavy lean but with no targets of any kind if I took each lead at about 25' leaving 30-50' of lead to flop and cuts made in 8-20" wood. The 8"er I just used a normal humbolt and back cut, got'er cut...

The saw dust bug is strong with this one. May the dust be with you!

With a rope and without a rope. The limb that got me thinking was probably 25' long and if I cut it as it leaned it would have hung up int another tree so I wanted to pull it to the left using just the undercut and back cut. All went fine and swung in as intended. But then it got me thinking...

So the past week we've been taking apart three large silver maples. While I was making cuts I had to "put a little English" on the cuts i.e. pulling the undercut to one side or the other sometimes incorporating a tapered hinge to get the limbs to swing in the clear. I am not sure if this is...