Thoughts on how to fell these

[Ferguson system]

One option is to cut it higher up than the fence, make a tongue&groove cut so it'll stay in place. It looks like the trees lean in the right direction so should work. It will rest on the stem and crown, fence intact underneath.

[billpierce]

Pic from today. Bog standard hinge, was just the main stem as not enough room to drop whole tree at 90° to wall

[AHPP]

37 minutes ago, billpierce said:

Pic from today. Bog standard hinge, was just the main stem as not enough room to drop whole tree at 90° to wall

Something I've been wanting to try for a while is setting up a quite elastic line to yank a butt sideways at the last moment to spin the tree. In your picture, say you had space to fell it towards the gate. You could pre-tension an elastic rope in line with where you actually felled the stem and gob and hinge the stem towards the gate (probably with a shallow gob so it breaks the hinge relatively early). In my mind, the top goes just to the right of the gate and the butt obligingly clears the wall, landing pretty much where it did in your photo but angled ninety degrees to the right.

[billpierce]

Something I've been wanting to try for a while is setting up a quite elastic line to yank a butt sideways at the last moment to spin the tree. In your picture, say you had space to fell it towards the gate. You could pre-tension an elastic rope in line with where you actually felled the stem and gob and hinge the stem towards the gate (probably with a shallow gob so it breaks the hinge relatively early). In my mind, the top goes just to the right of the gate and the butt obligingly clears the wall, landing pretty much where it did in your photo but angled ninety degrees to the right.

Not quite sure i follow why you would do that? Maybe im being thick.

Would have to be quite a bungee to over come the force of a falling stem, so much so it would have to be pulling it real hard at the wrong angle to the fell?

[Stere]

How about jump cuts?

 

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[drinksloe]

I was going to say the same as above, if u use an upside down gub ( think called Humboldt cut, like the yanks do on TV) the butts tend to jump of the stump.

Althou it will depend how far from the fence they are

 

I'd also ratchet strap the stems to stop them barbers chairing as look like they would esp being ash, and saves u bothering with the fancy cuts to the same extent if u can't get in to some trees Todo the correct cut.

 

But every tree will be slghtly different

Edited September 13, 2019 by drinksloe

[AHPP]

Not quite sure i follow why you would do that? Maybe im being thick.

Would have to be quite a bungee to over come the force of a falling stem, so much so it would have to be pulling it real hard at the wrong angle to the fell?

I’ll do a picture when I’m not slaughtered on cooking sherry.

[timbernut]

If you lay a stick in the gob it pops the stem off the hinge n it jumps forward. I was dubious when colleague first told me but tried it n it works

[AHPP]

Not quite sure i follow why you would do that? Maybe im being thick.

Would have to be quite a bungee to over come the force of a falling stem, so much so it would have to be pulling it real hard at the wrong angle to the fell?

Here’s the high quality technical drawing you’ve been waiting for. The crown will go where it goes but I can’t see why you couldn’t move the butt of a two tonne tree with a load of tension put on with a two tonne van and a big bungee (dynamic rope). Like when you spin a top so it’s butt towards chipper.