Quick question about felling.

[skyhuck]

Its not a sin to adjust your gob.

 

Once I've cut my gob I have good look to see if its right and if needs be I remove more from one side or the other to get it just right.

[agg221]

Its not a sin to adjust your gob.

 

Once I've cut my gob I have good look to see if its right and if needs be I remove more from one side or the other to get it just right.

 

Entirely agree, particularly on bigger stuff where the bar doesn't go right through the gob so you have to cut from both sides and can't quite see where the end is round the curve of the tree. A bit of trimming up makes for a much cleaner and more predictable fell.

 

Alec

[born2trot]

Its not a sin to adjust your gob.

 

Once I've cut my gob I have good look to see if its right and if needs be I remove more from one side or the other to get it just right.

 

[Mark Bolam]

Aye, good call Huck.

[Johny Walker]

Its not a sin to adjust your gob.

 

Once I've cut my gob I have good look to see if its right and if needs be I remove more from one side or the other to get it just right.

 

we call it a bit of fine tuning

[Guss109]

Its not a sin to adjust your gob.

 

Once I've cut my gob I have good look to see if its right and if needs be I remove more from one side or the other to get it just right.

 

 

 

Good shout skyhuck. I'd rather do a bit of fetleing and make the tree drop were I want it to:beerchug:

[shep]

the old ones of us always put bottom cut in first then line up 2 edges for top cut. but new boys are taught differant. shep

[djbobbins]

TBH I don't know if it's "correct" or not, but my slightly lazy way of getting around the risk of an untidy stump is to fell the tree, thus getting rid of the weight and most of the risk, then take a nice tidy ring of about 2 or 3 inches off the top.

 

Incidentally I was taught to do the bottom cut first, but I might try doing the top one - see if it is easier to line the two up.

[Chris Sheppard]

TBH I don't know if it's "correct" or not, but my slightly lazy way of getting around the risk of an untidy stump is to fell the tree, thus getting rid of the weight and most of the risk, then take a nice tidy ring of about 2 or 3 inches off the top.

 

 

That's the difference between arb and forestry

 

I've always been top cut first.

[atree]

It's a Humboldt cut.

 

Good on conifers.