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[Stere]

Alot of farmers  are actually injured and killed.

 

 

 

 

[GarethM]

That oak looked like it contained a lot of metal looking at the staining, even cheap Bulgarians draw the line somewhere!.

 

There's agri style and then bubba agri style, think that might have been bubba or atleast his UK cousin.

[manco]

Mary? 

(apologies if someones already done that one)

[AHPP]

Haven’t had one this bad for a while. What could I have done better? Smaller gob?

 

Sycamore. Two foot dbh ish. Visibly dead. Even crown weight. Building at 7 o’clock. Pull from 1 o’clock. Stretchy arb rope. Set low middle. Low moderate pretension.
 

Hit the spot at 12 o’clock. But didn’t like how fast it went. But then later thought better to have got it moving away from the building than have it standing teetering dithering on shit wood. 

Edited 10 hours ago by AHPP

[AHPP]

Come on @doobin. Let’s have it. 

[Mark Bolam]

Gob too big.

It’s about half the diameter!

[AHPP]

It's big because I started it, found the wood to be shit and kept going in the hope of finding better wood.

Edited 6 hours ago by AHPP

[Pete Mctree]

You can make a plunge cut into the stem in the direction of fell (90 degrees to the hinge) to assess the condition of the timber. The resistance and sawdust produced tell the story

 

On such a tree I would have done it prior to the decision to fell. You might have discovered better wood higher up the stem

[devon TWiG]

a couple of gems from a little while back !!!!😁  The second one is the little known Devon , Agri kindling cut  !!

[AHPP]

46 minutes ago, Pete Mctree said:

You can make a plunge cut into the stem in the direction of fell (90 degrees to the hinge) to assess the condition of the timber. The resistance and sawdust produced tell the story

 

On such a tree I would have done it prior to the decision to fell. You might have discovered better wood higher up the stem

 

Yep. Done that before. Should have done again. Did tap it and chop it with an axe but then got under a time crunch and didn't apply as much caution as the stump later confirmed it deserved. It was a pretty safe space apart from the building. Hence relative audacity. Live and learn.

Edited 5 hours ago by AHPP