90 degree to lean stunt fell

[Stephen Blair]

its a scrawny 30 foot birch which is an instant disqualification in stunt felling. i am surprised you didnt just break cut it and carry the tree out in a oner:biggrin:

[Dean Lofthouse]

its a scrawny 30 foot birch which is an instant disqualification in stunt felling. i am surprised you didnt just break cut it and carry the tree out in a oner

 

Not even luke could carry it

 

The technical bit

 

The holding line needs to be as high as possible and anchored to a tree ideally in direct line with the gob, then the line hinges down with the gob and the tree falls exactly inline of the hinge.

 

If you want the tree to swing in towards the holding line, you raise the anchor point of the holding line higher which shortens the line and pulls it in on an arc. Same effect can be acheived by moving the anchor to a tree slightly behind the hinge face.

 

If you want the tree to fall slightly away towards lean or away fromthe holding line, you simply do a high gob, so you can have a holding line anchor that can be positioned below the gob line or move the holding line anchor point to a tree slightly forward of the hinge face. Or you could simply leave a bit of slack in the line

 

I use mini traxion on a 2:1 pull for the holding line

 

You dont always have anchor trees available but this technique is a godsend on woodland edge trees.

[geoff]

Cool stuff!

[DN22 Gardening]

nice one dean,

 

did something similar in newark the other day, but didn't know it was a recognised technique. anchored off the van (full of chip)

 

pmsl

[bob]

and i thought it was going to be something technical that involved the use of a helmet to protect the hinge or even 2 helmets:biggrin:

[Dean Lofthouse]

My risk assessment said it was too warm for helmets Bob

[bob]

My risk assessment said it was too warm for helmets Bob

 

ahhh will remember that one:thumbup:

At least it was not down to heat exhaustion and dehydration

[waz77]

A usefull technique i was shown on leaners (in my case a limb at about 40deg overhanging a power line) is to put a pull line high up,put gob opposite side to lean,back cut leaving as thick a hinge as poss then pull tree/limb into vertical possition,tie off,then go about 2' above previous cut,put another gob in direction you want to fell and fell as normal for a vertical tree/limb. Prob old news to most of you but maybe a handy tip for some:thumbup1:

[arbclimber]

Fine work there Dean.

 

What ever happened with that tree with the scaffold round that you were posting about a while ago?

[Dean Lofthouse]

Fine work there Dean.

 

What ever happened with that tree with the scaffold round that you were posting about a while ago?

 

I need to take a photo, when I passed at the weekend two of the stems were laid over uphill on the 45 degree slope, to stop them sliding down the slope they were tied off with 10mm blue polyprop rope with the butts protuding over the footpath