That won't work on the easy splitting hardwoods logs like beech, ash and maple, Burnham.
Way too much tension to deal with.
Best way is to measure the whole thing out and start bucking from the tips inwards.
If it doesn't rise up by itself, as is usually the case with big trees, get a skidder to winch it up and fell the log afterwards.
That has the poetic name "cannon- felling" here, because on large areas that have been knocked over by storm, like we had in 81 ( cleanup time 1½ years) and 99 ( clean-up time 1 year) once the skidder crew has raised the logs, the whole thing looks like a picture of the front in WW1.
The cut off logs almost never raise straight up, so they end up looking like a bunch of cannons in a demolished forest.
Way too much tension to deal with.
Best way is to measure the whole thing out and start bucking from the tips inwards.
If it doesn't rise up by itself, as is usually the case with big trees, get a skidder to winch it up and fell the log afterwards.
That has the poetic name "cannon- felling" here, because on large areas that have been knocked over by storm, like we had in 81 ( cleanup time 1½ years) and 99 ( clean-up time 1 year) once the skidder crew has raised the logs, the whole thing looks like a picture of the front in WW1.
The cut off logs almost never raise straight up, so they end up looking like a bunch of cannons in a demolished forest.