tripping a hung tree

[roseyweb]

Thats a daily thing for any one who works in forestry

[Bolt]

exactly, whenever I got a hung-up tree, I always got my climbing kit on and cleared all the branches off before coming down and hacking a couple of metres off the bottom.

 

Think of the snedding time thats avoided .

 

....and if you waste the nasty heavy bottom bit, you avoid all those manual handling issues

 

 

Them NPTC fellas haven't got the monopoly on good ideas.

[Danavan]

Top vid & talk through the prosess. Thanks for posting.

[Rob D]

Interesting technique and not seen it done before...

 

That butt still drops down pretty quick though despite the strap of wood at the top. Hats off not sure I'd have the balls to do that. (As previously said) I'd get a line up and just winch it down.

[Dean Lofthouse]

I'd have just put a gob cut in or step cut lower down where I could control the saw properly then winch back at a safe distance. Not enough control in that technique as demonstrated in the video, it caught you by suprise

Edited September 23, 2010 by Dean Lofthouse

[Al Cormack]

I'd have just put a gob cut in or step cut lower down where I could control the saw properly then winch back at a safe distance. Not enough control in that technique as demonstrated in the video, it caught you by suprise

 

I'm with you on that one Dean. I would prefer a gob cut on the top and let it fold up nice and slow (and controlled:thumbup1:)

 

Anyway, at our age, well your age:001_tongue: you need time to get out the way lol

[Brushcutter]

I too would have put a face cut in it and then winched it back. Just seem safer. Even if it had the top on it i'd still have put a face cut in it then letter boxed it taken the hinge out and winched it back.

 

Winches are great.

[Highland Forestry]

Nice vid, like the explanation...

 

Why would you not just treat it as a normal windblown tree and adopt a much more basic approach to dealing with it??

 

I would have put three cuts into the top side of the tree at about an inch and a half apart extending to one third of the way through the trunk, and then stroked one cut in the middle of the three cuts on the underside and let her down in my own time, controlled and safely.

 

Failing that I would be looking at a step cut off the butt.

 

The video shows a tree collapsing using your method which effectivley relies on a barber chair effect to slow the tree down - this could be really dangerous depending on the timber.

 

But it's a method i've never tried before - will give it a go when I next come across a windblown tree and see how it does..

[dadio]

YES do give it a try and report back..

 

This is fast safe and effective, preventing any chance of bar pinch, which can happen a lot of different ways on a leaning tree.. This is particlarly effective on BIG trees, where other methods become very tedious and time consuming.

 

One technicality... the term barber chair does not apply to any split trunk.. it specifically refers to the movement of the trunk , up and back, when a trunk splits and moves like a barber chair.

 

So intentionally leaving a strap of holding wood up top to peel off the trunk is not a barber chair. DId you see the insert of the large ash tree that split up the trunk well after the cutter had walked away. It doesn;t get any safer than that. A little tricky to adjust the amoutn of wood to leave up top though.. You can leave a bit more after the tree is off the stump, as both sides of the cut can fold..

 

Had some difficulty visualizing the method you described. Would like to see it..

Thanks.

[Mesterh]

Do you think the top holding wood really holds it for any length of time?

 

It looks like it moved fairly fast to me tbh.

 

I have done more or less the same thing but not bothered with the top holding wood and always thought of it as a bit of a quick/naughty way rather than the more controlled/slower method of gob/back cut/wedge nibble sides and use a felling lever to roll the tree out.

 

All I'm saying is I dont think it holds any better or gives you more of a chance getting out of the way.