A snipe should help for that, giving a support edge almost in front of each half hinges instead of one central point putting the trunk in balance.Yeah, releasing on doubles is interesting.
Or when that little branch is right in one side of your gutted hinge, causing it to break and making the tree go sideways.
Thicker hinge, the tree would not have fallen with out the help of a skid steer. Too much fiber, tree would have stopped at the salute to the fuhrer
Position. Trouble with beetle kill trees is that the limbs and tops are seriously light from lack of moisture, yet the bases, if not long dead, can have serious holding fiber.
So rewrite that sentence and I'll do my best to answer.