90 degree to lean stunt fell

[Dean Lofthouse]

I apologise for the appauling quality of this vid, luke who was helping me took it and he's useless.

 

It shows what I need it to show.

 

Silver Birch with a heavy lean over a panelled fence and gardens within fall distance of some expensive conservatories etc, we had about 10 to come out with leans

 

They were around 50ft and if felled in the normal fashion the hinge would have gone and they'd have just crashed sideways into the gardens.

 

There was no actual room to fell, to clear the canopy of the adjacent trees I would have to put the gob in aiming directly at the fence, which you can see down the right side, this I did and aimed straight for the fence.

 

If you watch the fell you will see the tree start toward the fence then via of and pull hard left. We also had to contend with a gusty wind blowing towards the lean. The pull line did nothing except start the fall

 

The technique is not new but one I use often, what was the technique and how do we get the tree to pull in the last half of it's arc of fell ?

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtC7MMsen0A]YouTube - 90 degree to lean fell[/ame]

[garth mc garth]

well camoflaged excavator leaning on it??!!

[Mark Bolam]

Big fat bit of hinge left towards camera, nowt on far side?

[MaxJ]

Is that helicopter rotors I see above it!!!

[josharb87]

dutchmans?

 

ropeed from behind to catch and swing it round?

[tree_beard]

Big fat bit of hinge left towards camera, nowt on far side?

 

what mr bolam said... tapered hinge...

 

with maybe a little something tucked into the fence side of the gob?

[Nick Waring]

Guy line to catch it at a certain point and swing it around?

[Mark Bolam]

Like it Nick, but I reckon Deano has suckered us all.

 

His team were ERECTING a Birch, and Luke filmed it backwards.

[Brushcutter]

Swining Dutchmens? Prehaps with some hing tapering and a wedge in the fence side?

 

However you did it, it is very impressive wish i had the stones to fell that tree against so much lean.

[Dean Lofthouse]

I used a standard hinge