"Vee-cut"

[trialscot]

A couple of years ago on a lantra chainsaw course we did a vee-cut on a small tree leaning over a stream.

I can't remember what this cut was for or where the back cut went, can anyone remind me please?.

[VEG]

Probably a dog tooth cut used for leaning trees to stop it splitting up the trunk (aka barbers chair)

[trialscot]

No, it was a horizontal cut at each side of the small tree, cuts met at the front (in the direction of fall).

[fergusonforestry]

split level cut for backwards leaners? did you use a felling bar?

[VEG]

when you say small tree what diameter are you talking about?

[SAM66S]

Where you do 2 gobs & form a triangle by doing ur back cut towards it? Leaving a triangle shaped hinge. Sure that were for foward leaning trees although it always favours 1 of the directional gobs rather than the point of the triangle

[trialscot]

Thanks guys, Sams got it!!

[Xerxses]

Not great for direction but safe way of felling windblown trees, they fall slowly giving you plenty of time to move away.

[Brushcutter]

It's a handy cut to know for leaning stuff too small for the dogs tooth. works very well on windblown trees too. They look like this just on small bits of wood (thats a 3 cut harvester head job). I'd say you would want to use it on anything over 10" then it's a dogs tooth.

[Rich Rule]

The cut has a number of names and slightly different process off performing the cuts. Gerry Beranek call this the 'coos bay cut' in his book - the fundamentals of general tree work.

 

Basically felling a head leaning tree (top heavy). Gravity takes care of the direction. The cut allows you to safely get the tree off the stump when there is a high risk of a barbers chair.