Felling leaning trees

[butler]

step cut and landrover:001_tt2:

[Stephen Blair]

step cut and landrover:001_tt2:

 

more like back cut and range rover, you dont get that brief doing it by the book:sneaky2:

[bumble B]

If I can I use a winch near enough opposite to the lean and tension it up. Then put the Tree surgeon sink in about 50cm from the ground. Bore out, big hinge, high lift wedges, sledge hammer. Lift and tension.

[Matthew Burton]

Stephen, i'm more interested in why those cuts worked as I'd have gone for the tapered hinge. I realise you've got a much better chance of the hinge working in the desired way with a more flexible wood but did those cuts help or was it just chance?

[scottythepinetree]

The king of bendy fibres is birch imo.

 

What about Spruce?

 

Pulling rope to pull in the direction you want, guide rope attached to a capstan holding against the direction you don't want it to go. Cut wherever you like.

[slack ma girdle]

It does not matter what you do Sycamore will never hold, it is too brittle for fancy cuts. The oly way that it will go other than the lean is with a winch/ ropes.

[Brushcutter]

more like back cut and range rover, you dont get that brief doing it by the book:sneaky2:

 

Someone once did that on the one of the roads through the estate in the 90s. Two massive Beeches were cut streight form the back they barber chaired up and blocked the road. Caused a big stir with the police as it associated with hiests and assasinations. The esates not far away form where the great train robbery took place.

[Stephen Blair]

What about Spruce?

 

QUOTE]

 

touche, spruce is ok but it is sticky and jaggy, so i dont entertain it intot he tree royalty section of my scatty mind:lol:

Mathew, this wasnt chance your way worked.

Imagine you lean forward, at the point where you would fall over, someone grabbed your belt, you could lean forward but not fall over. As long as that point was not let go off, you wont fall over as it is doing all the work, it is the same with holding wood at the back of a leaning tree. The tension side. Depending on what species and time of year determines how playable the timber is. You can do anything with a leaning tree it all depends what you have to hand to assist. If you dont have a wedge and only a saw it will make a diference compared to sticking a turfor or winch on it, but you still need to understand what yo are doing and why it is doing it a certain way.

[3dogs]

bending a tree on its hinge is fine provided you understand the principle. to try and taper a hinge whilst the tree is sat is asking for trouble. the tree needs to be in motion as the hinge is slipped (tapered/triangled) for this technique to work as it causes the stem to twist.

However this is not an exact science and considerable attention to the crown is important if there's too much weight to one side of the crown you cant expect it to twist in the opposite direction.

[Stephen Blair]

Someone once did that on the one of the roads through the estate in the 90s. Two massive Beeches were cut streight form the back they barber chaired up and blocked the road. Caused a big stir with the police as it associated with hiests and assasinations. The esates not far away form where the great train robbery took place.

 

I never meant Butler was a dodgy criminal:blushing::laugh1:i meant if you know a few shortcuts in the tree cutting world, you will make some pennies:biggrin: sorry if this came across the wrong way Butler:001_smile: