Rate My Hinge.

[conallb]

I have Not seen enough shockers on here (not looked through every page), so I thought I would raise you all a real shocker from 6 or so months ago.

 

It was leaning quite a bit towards the stream and was pretty rotten as you can see, we had a wire line going to the tractor to bring it where we wanted it. We didn't have a bar big enough to reach the whole way through with us so I did the back cut on the far side first for obvious reasons and left a decent amount of hinge wood as it was real rotten. Started the near side back cut and it started cracking before the tractor had started pulling and it just snapped out into the stream.

 

The wire line at the bottom of the stem was what we used to pull it out of the stream, that wasn't where we were trying pull it over from haha.

 

We should have had tension on it as soon as I had started the near side back cut.:blushing:

 

Nothing was broken.

[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?