Tree felling vids

Multi-purpose trucks. That 's smart and very different than the direct pull under a tree without a redirect. Thanks for sharing Gary!
 
Ha! My pleasure. Sometimes seems like we are all out there skinning cats but in different ways. That's one reason I like this site....folks share...good for all.
 
Easy peasy Gary! Nice to do a job quickly (Relative) in that heat .
Did you chock the wheels of the truck with the redirect?

Mick! said:
I managed to avoid that vid on social media until I accidentally clicked it, horrific, but shows one of the myriad ways you can hurt yourself very badly..
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Yeah I intend to avoid it too, hearing about it was enough.
 
pantheraba said:
Here's one we did today. Neighbor's poplar...I limbed about 2/3 of the tree to take off some weight and to get rid of the muscadine vines that had it intertwined with nearby trees.

We had a pullrope out into the woods at a 10 o'clock vector from the house...that went to a block out across a creek. That redirected the pull at an 8 0'clock vector thru the woods out to my truck.

Alex put a load balanced block for the 2nd redirect from my truck to his truck so he could pull straight down the road as I cut. He is standing in the bight in the pictures but that's only hand tight...no one there during tensioning.

We strapped the spar and I cut about 3 feet below the binder...had a good thick hinge to hold long enough to get it away from the house.

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Seems like he might be pulling before you're cut up to the hinge, so bending the tree before its ready to go. Something to consider is the risk of barberchairing the tree as you're cutting it.
Personally, I'll set wedges solidly, cut the hinge as I like it, then tip it over with a steady pull, on my word.

FWIW.
 
We did pre-tension with the truck...that's why I had a strap/binder in it. We were on Sena coms...he saw the tree start moving the top as I approached the hinge and kept it moving. I just chased the cut as he pulled. With it bound up I felt good about the tension.

Bermy...as I made the face cut Alex asked if I thought we should chock my truck. I had not but told him it sounded like a good idea to me. So he did set chocks against the pull. It should be standard practice I think...we are still developing our standards....:D Good question.
 
We got an new winch put on my ute last week...wheel chocks are a must or that puppy is getting reeled in!
 
Well folks... I'm a poor contributor... here's a boring GoPro vid I made of a weird back-leaning Maple clump pull that we did last week.
https://youtu.be/kmKjFXIxxGs (It IS at least, short.)

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