Rate My Hinge.

[jnoon]

Why did you cut the most critical part of the hinge off if it was a dangerous fell?

 

My typo sorry

The fell wasn't dangerous as leaning the right way and could only go one way

It was the tree which was dangerous and rotten as the picture shoes it exploded as it touched down

[18 stoner]

Yeh no worries. I often get on my high horse when ever I see feathers cut off.

 

It's not a personal attack to you, it's a very common, and bad practice that has been around for many many years. Unfortunately, due to historic lack of training on larger felling it's somehow managed to achieve an "acceptable" type of status, mainly because people have "seen it done like that before".

 

In almost all cases cutting toes off inline with the hinge, i.e, narrowing the hinge,it reduces the possible effectiveness of the hinge, and in the case of leaning, weighted or rotten stems I'd always go for the widest possible hinge.

 

The old "we didn't have a big enough bar" is not a good enough excuse for cutting toes off either. A better cut or a bigger saw should be used rather than jeopardise hinge integrity.

[Goaty]

Perhaps not the place to post this, but where did Frank the starter of this thread go? He hasnt been on since Feb 2012!!

[mistahbenn]

Darren is still knocking about Facebook.

[Good-feller]

[Good-feller]

Poplar pollard . Had a rope on just in case but fell over without a wedge

[Luke Quenby]

That's a fairly low pollard!

[mad matty]

Have I being do my pollards the wrong way then?

Good hinge though.

Cheers Matty:thumbup1:

[treeman]

Haha......... Carnt see the issue

 

Can you explain good fella?

[Good-feller]

I.e the tree was a pollard before it was felled. Preferred the fell than a nasty repollard . Because its easy now I've got a crane on my unimog