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Looking nice! SRT with one high TIP?
Looking nice! SRT with one high TIP?
These parts of your post seem to not be possible at the same time, @davidwyby. If it would break the hinge to winch it to over center leading to failure to hit the intended lay, then it's not possible that the first pull to over center, then the slack before the second pull, didn't result in the hinge failing in the meantime...no?Yeah, if the hinge wood was any worse, I might have lost it. Old unused shed…new house, I would have pieced it down or something.
Traction was poor and I didn’t have my winch. When I hit the end of the rope, the tires slipped…luckily it was already over center.
I don’t think a winch would have worked. The degrees of pull required to get it over center were more than the hinge would bend before breaking, and it would have flopped on the fence. Might not be able to see it. He didn’t care anyway, but still. I kicked it around, considered what I had and the consequences and went for it…lucky no more rot than there was. I wanted the tree to already have momentum in the right direction when the hinge broke.
I could have tethered it to the other tree to combat side lean, but said tree is unsafe to stand under, much less anchor. 😆
I set tension, mostly as safety for me making the back cut, and installed wedges. Then I slacked the rope and pulled. Once I started pulling, I never had slack again…the yank slowed the truck and caused the tires to break loose, but the momentum of the tree and truck carried the tree towards the intended lay. Actually if, you watch closely, as the tree stoood up, the hinge broke, and the tree rolled and leaned a little towards the camera. If I had winched it upright and broken the hinge, with no momentum, it would have flopped 90° to the hinge, away from the green tree.These parts of your post seem to not be possible at the same time, @davidwyby. If it would break the hinge to winch it to over center leading to failure to hit the intended lay, then it's not possible that the first pull to over center, then the slack before the second pull, didn't result in the hinge failing in the meantime...no?
I see...I misunderstood the sequence, from I was seeing. I have to say, I do agree with Stephen, Kyle, Rajan, and Mick. It was not as smooth as I would have tried for, myself.I set tension, mostly as safety for me making the back cut, and installed wedges. Then I slacked the rope and pulled. Once I started pulling, I never had slack again…the yank slowed the truck and caused the tires to break loose, but the momentum of the tree and truck carried the tree towards the intended lay. Actually if, you watch closely, as the tree stoood up, the hinge broke, and the tree rolled and leaned a little towards the camera. If I had winched it upright and broken the hinge, with no momentum, it would have flopped 90° to the hinge, away from the green tree.