big tops and interesting cuts

[skyhuck]

Tree work vids used to be someone simply capturing their every day work on film.

 

We have now moved to a situation where some seem to be trying to shoot the best (or worst, as some see it) vid and the actual work has just become a means of achieving this.

[gtmprofessional]

a friend at another forum posted this so i thought id post it here. some big tops coming over, pay particular attention to the cut on the first tree

 

 

Nice videos, with our rattlewedge it would be much easier for them to control the falling.

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICm6nEjyEnk]YouTube - abbattimento con conyfair - Treeclimbing[/ame]

[Brushcutter]

I'd call that cut a strap release cut. I've used it a few times on really heavy leaners. My logic for using it over a dogs tooth is the angle that the saw goes in. Sometimes when doing a dogs tooth i've had the tree go with the saw still in the final cut which can come back at you. If you do it with a release cut the saw tends to stay in the cut.

 

Not sure i'd fancy cutting such big bits off while on spikes though.

[Czlowiek Drzewo]

felling them like that seems like a pointless risk.

 

he could have felled most of those trees as ground level and since the job is dangerous enough why add to it by taking a away your escape route?

 

i would not say its advanced techniques either unless someone can explain the science of the first cut?

[Dean Lofthouse]

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i would not say its advanced techniques either unless someone can explain the science of the first cut?

 

No Idea mate, cant think of any reason

[lyons e]

good to no, but why complicate things keep it simple

[matt.p]

Hay steve you should read the rest of the post on treebuzz!! thay HATE this guy haha

 

And he said on the other post he HAD to start the cut a lot lower because he him some metal in the tree so it was not planed like that!

 

I thing fells like that ane over the top macho bull. I think its VERY dangerous to fell over 30% of the trees hight wile climbing.

 

matt