tree felling vids

[Stephen Blair]

i do believe we discovered an awesome trick today robert ha ha

[atree]

haha banter!

[Mesterh]

you are just taking a layer of wood out, ideally i should of got the wedges back a bit, lowered the hinge and then knocked it over, the fault was with the back cut, my bad. but how else do you find these things out? but the main thing is the hinge is still intact and doesnt turn and crush the saw. Not text book by far, but i showed my other vids so i thought i should show this aswell.

 

Enjoyed all the vids and good to see a little trick that worked well:thumbup1:

 

Where you just sort of lowering the bottom cut of the gob then?

[Stephen Blair]

Enjoyed all the vids and good to see a little trick that worked well:thumbup1:

 

Where you just sort of lowering the bottom cut of the gob then?

 

yes mate, it was a heavy back leaner ontop of a gully, so you want loads of hinge and a good hold on the top side, but i was just a bit low, well depending on how you look at it, lower than the front cut makes it a very good hold with chewy wood. if i said i expected the tree to go with the saw in it i would be lying and stupid, my plan was just to lower the bottom gob cut, but she was obviously just teetering, as i said before in the last post, taking the presure off would of been better, whether its high lifts, winches etc, if you have exhausted what ever technique of lifting then you have plain and simple.

 

but it can go in the back pocket of tips and tricks you would never learn unless out on the tools, hands on:thumbup1:

[Mesterh]

but it can go in the back pocket of tips and tricks you would never learn unless out on the tools, hands on:thumbup1:

 

Definitely:thumbup1:

 

I'm not that good when it comes to straight felling big stuff, which I guess(or hope:blushing:) is because we hardly get a chance since so much of our work is domestic and there aint usually the room.

 

If it looks like a possible fell but its tight then I would usually bottle it and prefer to section it down a bit due to not having the judgement and/or skill.

[Stephen Blair]

when the pressure is on your shoulders then why take short cuts, i priced this job to get, just for the felling mate tbh. It is amazing practice, and if one doesnt go exactly to plan, hay ho you have taken some dead wood off a sitka, not an extension on a bungalow or a consrvatory lol

[Rod]

when the pressure is on your shoulders then why take short cuts, i priced this job to get, just for the felling mate tbh. It is amazing practice, and if one doesnt go exactly to plan, hay ho you have taken some dead wood off a sitka, not an extension on a bungalow or a consrvatory lol

 

its amazing how much more confident it makes you up a tree

we did a 6 Ha birch and big scots mix clear fell round christmas

sharpens you up

Edited March 5, 2010 by Rod
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[Mark Bolam]

Is the job finished Stevie? Been a great series of vids.

 

Especially the 'don't try this at home kids' trick at the end!

[Stephen Blair]

not quite mark, 99.9% finished, digger wrecked a track so had to finish at 3pm today, a morning will finish it, but i reckon they will need more done by the time a 13ton track machine starts spinning around lol

[Ben Ballard]

i enjoyed all the vids,sometimes you got to just do what you can to get job done,ive opened up gobs in the past and use back to front felling cuts,just make sure i am xtra aware, ok there are the text bookcuts we learn but every tree is differentand dont always go to plan ,nice jobmate hope to see some more vids:thumbup1: