Tree felling vids

[SeanKroll]

Only
Handle
It
Once

OHIO

 

[davidwyby]

Touch it once!

Shit can still go sideways with a rope or cable. You can do everything "right" and still have things go south.

Questions for learning, not arguing. If all your rigging, cutting, and weight estimation is correct, what gets you? Bad wood you can’t see?

It seems like to lose one over backwards or sideways you’d have to cut your hinge off or it fail.

On that note, I did cut a hinge off once. Limb tied saplings in a burn…I wasn't careful because I kinda knew it wasn’t going anywhere and was small enough to muscle.

 

[SeanKroll]

Hinges fail.

 

[davidwyby]

Hinges fail.

Well my luck must be good, with all the poorly hinging junk I cut