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[Brushcutter]

Take the butress off in the direction of fell then put the face in. That way you can see what its like inside and make the decision what other butresses if any to take off. If its leaning to one side or the other leave those on.

 

Place a bit of 3" material close to the butt in the direction of fell to keep the butt of the deck. The dress the butresses of the stem to present.

[Ian Leach]

No Ian! That's the excuse everyone uses!

 

If you haven't a big enough saw to cut in one, either get a bigger saw, learn how to do it to multiple bar widths, or get someone in who can do it!

 

 

Edit;

Ian, was this actually an NPTC instructor who gave this advice? If so, did he also point out the negative effects of doing this in various other situations?

 

 

It was taught and I passed felling a tree which was just over twice the bar width by removing buttress, not to the extreme pictured above as I did say similar. Point out negative effects erm no!!!!, but I do know as that came from experience.

Like I said I was taught it but only used it max 10 times in 10years, People use to use it in Sweden when I was there to help with harvesters more timber.

[Gray git]

For forestry rounding off the toes is best practice as ugly but ends can lead to loades being rejected by the mill's as there auto system can't cope with them or costs more to process them.

I was always thought by very experienced fallers to put gob in and if the tree proved sound then cut togas off the sides to stop tearing out roots and possibly affecting the direction of fall.

If a trees structure is compromised by decay the buttresses are often the only sound timber left to create a hinge so need leaving till after falling but still good practice to trim them off after as makes everything easier to stack.

As always with experience you learn to tayler your techniques to each situation so there is no definitive right and wrong ways, but most definitely safe and unsafe ways of felling timber.

 

sent while pretending to do something important on my mobile.

[18 stoner]

makes it interesting if find out tree is hollow or rotten, sometimes only buttress to hinge on

 

 

Exactly!

 

 

 

Dan, a very good point about woodland felling. Perhaps this is where the theory is intended where stems are usually sound.

 

Unfortunately in the world of arb though, there is a much higher risk of there being a rotten, leaning unpredictable stem in the middle of someone's garden with cherished obstacles around.

[Dan Curtis]

Dan, a very good point about woodland felling. Perhaps this is where the theory is intended where stems are usually sound.

 

I think so. The guy who I did my felling training with was very keen to emphasise that the felling tickets 30-34 are forestry qualifications, so apply to actual timber harvesting rather than a dodgy hollow stem in a back garden.

[mistahbenn]

Fat silver maple,took two days including removal of all stump mulch. Tired!

[timbernut]

Couple of the larch I did a few weeks ago

[Steve Bullman]

Looking good!

[s.varty]

Looks pretty much perfect:thumbup1:

[18 stoner]

Can I ask the same old question, why did you cut off the most important part of the hinge?

 

 

 

 

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