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If any parallels can be drawn from bending wood made supple by steaming, a slow even consistent pull around your form seems to give better results from cracking, than doing it by way of a quick jerky motion. Asking the fibers to stretch not tear..... Bending wood that is too dry, the degree of...

I'd be curious how wood fibers at a hinge respond to a slow gradual pull compared to a fast jerk. Is one way going to allow the fibers to bend more before they break?

They better be good with how much they rob you for the special solid core cable. They give you extra sheer pins with the device, so I guess people do break them.

Sean, I guess you could say fighting the wood, or making them come over begrudgingly. The thing is, I'm a paranoid person with much back leaning heavy trees. I don't enjoy it until I see them leaning in the right direction. Seeing that and all is well in the beautiful world.

It went over gracefully, good job, Willie.

What you use for pulling can dictate approaches as well. With a motorized device I imagine it's a little harder to determine the amount of tension on the line than say with a Tirfor, where how hard it is to move the handle tells how much pull is going. With the Tirfor, the cut a little pull a...

Different approaches for sure and not meant as a criticism, but why not get it leaning over farther in the desired direction before completing your cut and relying on a small hinge and the final pull? Is there an advantage in pretty much only holding it until the final go?

Looks like not much to get excited about. They went with the guy walking around the job with a fag in his mouth.

Maybe with Cody, the tree has to be on fire to make him think straight.

Wow, the dude at 2:40 in the second part! What was he thinking?

The ones that get me are when something goes wrong, like the tree sets back, people will know that they are in trouble but just keep on going.

Sure does seem like it holds the tree to the stump longer. Not much wood at all left in the back before those little trip cuts to set it free. Normally with a straight cut to the back, with only that much wood left holding it, I think the tree would pull out.

I'm still confused how that does anything.

Along the lines of what Dan says about reducing fibers, if its valuable wood with forward lean or you are pulling, you want to eliminate the potential for wood pull from the center of the tree that will reduce the value of the log. Never seen this step back cut before the trip. <iframe...

I can't recall this vid of Daniels having been posted before. Using ladders in tree work. Pretty graphic with one person getting cut if such is not wanting to be viewed. Some crazy approaches that Dan has gathered to show the hazards. Ow! Embedding not allowed. https://youtu.be/oxst-7MmUfM

I can't really tell what August was doing up in that tree if other than tying it off to pull it over. It doesn't seem like it was needed to tie off so high in the sketchy thing.

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That is a nice shot, good work, August. Not taking anything away from it, but still it pales in comparison to Nice Guy Dave's famous flop between the houses.