Rate My Hinge.

[timtree81]

Tim, a nice clean hinge, but out of curiosity why did you cut the feathers off one side?

 

Never really understood why people cut off the most important part of the hinge?

 

It was trimmed up so the bar clears the width in one hit , the buttress of a tree can splay out and cause the bar the fall short on the other side , a way around this is to cut heigh .

[18 stoner]

Yeh, I understand that Tim, but, the whole idea of a hinge is to give direction of fell. The wider the hinge, the more stability and control of direction.

 

Cutting buttresses, or "feathers" purely to fit the bar length, jeopardises the effectiveness of the hinge, especially if there is lean, decay or even wind.

 

A much better use of the hinge is to leave it as wide as possible, and either get a bigger saw, or cut from both sides.

[shendy]

Ive seen buttress roots get ripped out of the ground coz the tree wasn't buttressed. Would of hurt the cutter is he didn't move.

[skyhuck]

Ive seen buttress roots get ripped out of the ground coz the tree wasn't buttressed. Would of hurt the cutter is he didn't move.

 

That suggests to me that they were doing there job steering the tree down

[18 stoner]

Ive seen buttress roots get ripped out of the ground coz the tree wasn't buttressed. Would of hurt the cutter is he didn't move.

 

Yeh, seen it too but usually when the face closes. By the time the face closes, there's a pretty good chance the stick has fallen in the required direction.

 

On the occasion the buttresses tear out before the face close, it's more likely the stick would of been even further off target, had they been cut back first. They WILL of helped keeping direction before ripping out.

[Adam Bourne]

One from earlier in the week.

[SKStrees]

Hinge from knocking the the top off a 100ft ish pine

[Stephen Blair]

Cracking pic! Looks like that branch is in the window of the villa:confused1:

[SKStrees]

Lol nothing so exciting, it all came down where it supposed to with some help from the rigging kit.

[18 stoner]

Nice hinge, but cracking pic!