Ash Clearfell

[rowan lee]

Depends on the tree. if they're leaning away from eachother it can be best to treat as two trees. some occasions its best to take them all as one. Don't have any pics the 28" triple stem sycamore i did a year or so back but that i did all as one. All depends how joined they are. I've also put ropes up in both stems and pulled them over 90 degrees to lean.

 

cool, so pending on the weight distributions and favoured fell direction etc, either method is accepted.

 

I suppose what i should added to my initial query in the post before was - would it have been possible to take the entire tree out in one go, given that a winch was used to aid the felling of the second back leaning forked trunk?

(perhaps it is blatantly obvious to the experienced here, but just curious from a spectators point of view).

[Brushcutter]

Without seeing the tree it would be difficult to say. More than likely yes but sometimes its safer to take it as two. I might of ripped the rotten union down to a better hight for felling.