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[WattsyWattsy]

Hi everyone, this is my first post and it ain't pretty..

[Darrin Turnbull]

Welcome to the show.

[WattsyWattsy]

Thanks!

[Mark Bolam]

Yes, you've explained your thoughts fine. I'm not trying to convert you to taking the ears off - just trying to answer your question of why do people do it. For what it's worth, I cut around 100 trees today - I didn't take the ears off any of them. I think taking the ears off, or not, is another decision you have to make on a tree by tree basis - most of the time you'll be fine leaving them on, on the flip side, most of the time taking them off isn't going to do too much harm either.

 

That sums it up for me.

Arb or forestry, the lugs are coming off anyway, who cares when they come off?

I'll only leave them on compromised trees when I might need their help.

A round stem rolls a lot easier on the deck than one wearing a pair of bri-nylon 18-Stoner flares.

 

 

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[Joe Newton]

That sums it up for me.

Arb or forestry, the lugs are coming off anyway, who cares when they come off?

I'll only leave them on compromised trees when I might need their help.

A round stem rolls a lot easier on the deck than one wearing a pair of bri-nylon 18-Stoner flares.

 

 

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Crap. You do it so that the watching homeowner thinks it looks complicated and doesn't think: "it's only three cuts, why am I paying out the arse for this northern monkey to do what I could!?"

 

[18 stoner]

Crap. You do it so that the watching homeowner thinks it looks complicated and doesn't think: "it's only three cuts, why am I paying out the arse for this northern monkey to do what I could!?"

 

 

 

Spot on!

 

Well, except he's now a suvverner so needs EVEN MORE justification for his rip off fees😄😜

[MattyF]

Removed toes also make nice jacking points for those hairy Spruce that need pushing through , also means you can get wedges in further.

And keeps the forwarder driver happy so he does not have gaps in his bunk.

Leave them for compromised trees definitely though , I learnt that the hard way when I had a big elm collapse on a saw bending the bar and leaving me in a situation you don't really want to be in!

[Mark Bolam]

Spot on!

 

Well, except he's now a suvverner so needs EVEN MORE justification for his rip off fees😄😜

 

Busted!

 

 

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[mistahbenn]

Removed toes also make nice jacking points for those hairy Spruce that need pushing through , also means you can get wedges in further.

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And keeps the forwarder driver happy so he does not have gaps in his bunk.

Leave them for compromised trees definitely though , I learnt that the hard way when I had a big elm collapse on a saw bending the bar and leaving me in a situation you don't really want to be in!

 

1 Q. Why make all those extra cuts, when you could just cut a foot higher saving time?

[MattyF]

1 Q. Why make all those extra cuts, when you could just cut a foot higher saving time?

 

 

Getting paid by the tonne ,all timber to be removed from site and no high stumps ,it takes about a minute to make those cuts with a 560 on a 15"bar.... Also makes rolling the tree Easy when snedding and like I said it annoys the forwarder driver when his load has big gaps in because of flares... Tbh though a lot of the larger trees on that site we dressed the timber when it was on the deck.