I can see an application if you need to bridge over an object with a species that won't hinge, where you can pick up the felled whole piece, once horizontal, with a machine.
I removed a spruce over a small hedge, permission to squash the laurel granted. A wide face and spruce's hinge-holding power allowed it to close the face, almost, when the branches were resting in the street. I was able to limb and buck it back until it was just a 6' tall spar with a 6' log hanging horizontally by some of the remaining hinge, face now closed. Since this horizontal log was attached, I could widdle it back over the hedge, and drop firewood rounds until clear of the narrow hedge, cookies while over the hedge. In a zero risk situation like this, if the BBC ripped clear of the stump, it would have smashed a bit of a small laurel hedge, which the custy already expected and okayed. If you can not damage something that is expected to be collateral damage, and okayed, you come out looking good, and the asset is preserved.
One of those rare exceptions to the standard cuts.
