felling cuts

[Steve Bullman]

what felling cuts are being taught at colleges these days? seems most of the people i see fresh out of college are using very shallow felling cuts, which are fine for production, but IMO not very useful in arb.

Anyone recently out of college who has been taught any technical felling technique, ie, tapered hinges etc?

[Amelanchier]

I always enjoy bringing the newly qualified CS31s over to the dark side of 'arb-felling'. Felling at waist height and all that.

[Peter]

Waist height? What about the head height fells for diggers to rip the stump out?

[Steve Bullman]

personally i always fell a tree 10" from the ground

[RPA]

personally i always fell a tree 10" from the ground

 

Always got to be that bit bigger!

My last one was 8 feet so the customer could nail a fence panel to it. They had forgotten what daylight was and where overwhelmed to the point of needing to reduce it.

 

As far as cuts a couple of years ago no advanced stuff, there was a good range of cuts for diff situations. A lot was accuracy of cuts and how to deal safely with hung trees.

 

Shallow cuts were encouraged with relation to buttresses. ie counting the buttress as part of the cut diam. as opp toremoving them first then putting in a gob (25%) with gob hight according to uphill/downhill etc.

[MasterBlaster]

I'm in the narrow notch club, myself.

[Paul Barton]

When I was at college we were taught 'split level' cuts, 'dog tooth cuts' and the normal felling cut. Also with 'letterbox' cuts (cutting the middle out of the hinge) when necessary.

 

Since starting work I have never used the split level cut but have used the dog tooth cut on a few occasions eg when using a winch/pull line.

[Kevin]

very shallow felling cuts

 

Would this be the open face notch or something different?

[MasterBlaster]

It's a conventional notch with a yo wack crazy snipe added.

[Stumper]

Butch, Thta "yo wack crazy snipe" turned it into an open face.

 

Different faces for different places and spaces but most commonly I go deep and wide.