Unemployed
Treehouser
I’ve got a question regarding some unusual stumps I’ve seen and was hoping someone here could explain to me what the technique and rationale behind it is — I can’t find anything that looks like it in any logging books or the internet (that I can find).
It sort of looks like somebody faced it one way, then decided to take it in another direction instead, and faced it again 90 degrees to the first face, and fall it that way. This gives it about 2/3 the normal hinge width. For context, this is in a wildfire affected area by a highway; often the stumps are on a hill, but don’t look like they were huge leaners. They’re probably doug-fir but it can be hard to tell when you’re driving 60mph.
My thinking is the trees were growing towards the light provided by the break in the woods (the highway) and the branches loaded it up to fall across the road, but the faller wanted to lay it along the road. Instead of giving it a dutchman, they cut out a part of the hinge to swing it around but gave the tree plenty of space to compress as it moves laterally, to prevent barberchairing or hinges popping prematurely.
Pics on request, but it’ll be a day or two since I haven’t taken them yet.
It sort of looks like somebody faced it one way, then decided to take it in another direction instead, and faced it again 90 degrees to the first face, and fall it that way. This gives it about 2/3 the normal hinge width. For context, this is in a wildfire affected area by a highway; often the stumps are on a hill, but don’t look like they were huge leaners. They’re probably doug-fir but it can be hard to tell when you’re driving 60mph.
My thinking is the trees were growing towards the light provided by the break in the woods (the highway) and the branches loaded it up to fall across the road, but the faller wanted to lay it along the road. Instead of giving it a dutchman, they cut out a part of the hinge to swing it around but gave the tree plenty of space to compress as it moves laterally, to prevent barberchairing or hinges popping prematurely.
Pics on request, but it’ll be a day or two since I haven’t taken them yet.