CurSedVoyce
California Hillbilly
You missed the point danny boy
hinge pics
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Burnham
Woods walker
Wayback machine 
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...Letter box
When Pete McTree joined me to observe the USFS treeclimbing instructor's workshop last week, he pointed out a butt cut in a pile of wood set aside for firewood permit holders. He said something like "Look at that, a classic letter box felling cut". I laughed and told him that was a stem I...
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flushcut
TreeHouser
That was a pretty cut B. Dare I say a Rembrandt.
Burnham
Woods walker
Every once in a while I make a nice one 
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CurSedVoyce
California Hillbilly
Not to forget to mention less fibers that have to ....
pete mctree
Treehouser
Nothing exciting, just a quick edit I made for a friend as we were discussing felling these shitty ash with die back. We were focusing on retaining as much hinge as possible & still boring due to the smaller bar used. The damn things are sometimes really brittle & he has been loosing a good few sideways.
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murphy4trees
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ash here is extremely unreliable... often seems to hinge well... other times almost no control. I still haven't figured out how the variables come in to play. I overkill with a pull line on anything near valuables.
Ed L
Treehouser
Same here, one will still be solid and have some resemblance of holding wood, others are cut and run....a few are let mother nature take 'em down, as you know damn well there will be no control and it'll fall long before you want it to. In the woods, I can get away with it....you have no choice, has to come down.
Ed
murphy4trees
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50 foot ash top from the bucket truck late in the day for a friend who chipped 3 jobs in trade
about 20 inches at the cut
one of 3 tops all about the same
16 inch bar
my hands didn't start cramping until the picture taking started
about 20 inches at the cut
one of 3 tops all about the same
16 inch bar
my hands didn't start cramping until the picture taking started
Gutted the one hinge even though I still felled it higher than normal due to it being poor at ground level ( you can see the saw below as I cut it off after) after I’d faced it up it looked sound inside so didn’t want it to pull fibre.
As for the black and white photo, why gut it if you don’t need too🙄🤣.
On the Oak, got to watch the short grain here and not get too wide!!
As for the black and white photo, why gut it if you don’t need too🙄🤣.
On the Oak, got to watch the short grain here and not get too wide!!
flushcut
TreeHouser
She's hollow!
Burnham
Woods walker
I especially like the B&W pic. Very nice.
She was although surprisingly she sounded back not too far up the trunk. Always amazes me that they can look so poor and then be fine.
Jed
TreeHouser
Wow, that last one's a huge... what is that pig, a Birch husky?
Mick!
TreeHouser
Looks like a pop to me.
Mick!
TreeHouser
I am guessing high value timber, at least the forestry fallers I have worked with do that to maximise the millable wood.
Mick!
TreeHouser
Where’s the extra cost?
Loads of extra time and effort cutting. And, though it's not a residential setting where stumps are usually dirty to some extent, Low cutting invites dullness from detritus on stump.
And IME, harder to fell accurately compared to cutting at a taller height
