Private work: your own pictures

[Blakes 7]

goe easy guys! theres a tutors rep at stake here too! poor lads going to get nailed by you lot!

 

If the tutor is impressed with those cuts and work area he deserves some critisism.

[jacktaylor]

whats wrong with that hinge for a medium fell? let me know any advice you've got about any of my photos. many thanks

[Stephen Blair]

i have to agree with 18 stoner, good on you for getting the tree down and i hate to criticise, but this is a dangerous game and a pat on the back doesnt save your skin. chestnut is as brittle as hell, especially a diseased one, maybe it was more convenient to fell it where you did, but the narrow hinge, on the buttress, taking away the other buttresses when you did have a sufficient saw to handle it, was only weakening the holds and taking away wood you want to use for control. maybe its the pics or just the shape of the stem, but it is one of those ones that doesnt conform to a textbook sitka fell.

[jacktaylor]

i think my tutors said well done to me as it was my first medium fell. My college tutors are good at what they do, every person that i have spoke to and who they have taught in the past havn't had one bad thing to say about them.

[jacktaylor]

this is the shape of the stem

[18 stoner]

Stevie worded it very well.

 

In my opinion the gob should have been deeper to pick up the wider buttresses, therefore more directional control. Did the instructor point this out, or say anything about the problems of removing buttresses unnecessarily?

[Stephen Blair]

jack, its very hard if not impossible for me to put the last 13 years of my life doing this job into a paragraph on screen. take it from me, that hinge just doesnt look right for the tree you did. BUT you got it on the deck, i bet it felt great. i remember my first fell, awesome. It is all about experience, i have done dozens if not hundreds of trees that havent done what they should have because i did it the way a book teaches you, you pick up little tips, do's and donts from mishapps and guidance from others, but mainly boo boos. your instructor brought you guys home in one piece so he has done a good job.

[Dionysus]

the fell wasnt that good, but it went the right way and you were still alive at the end, when i was first training i had a few shockers, you have to go through that, it takes time and regular felling to get your eye in.

 

just one tip too, it looks like you nibbled the hell out of the gob, so angles arent meeting up perfectly, i try to get my first cuts as accurate as possible, think twice cut once, the accuracy also helps the tree leave the stump cleanly.

[EMC]

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Edited March 19, 2010 by Steve Bullman
nice first post!? please read the forum guidelines before posting again, thanks

[Stephen Blair]

NO NO NO. i have just seen your last pick. it gets worse. he should of kicked your arse for that hinge then you should of kicked his for letting you lol