Tight fell of a side leaner.

[Jason James Gairn]

Ahh the Lawsons Cypress, hairy, stinking and a pain in the arse.... A bit like the Prime Minister.

 

Nigel Lawson more like.

[Mark Bolam]

Rather you than me bro.

 

Top work.

[Log-ologist]

Did it work? I've had trouble with side weight on cypresses, hinges seem to go very early. I've never dared try it on anything that big.

 

 

your right

 

 

old Lawsons often pluck out the hinge rather than fold over.

[Big 'Ammer]

I'd allowed for it giving up, thats why I gobbed it just left of the fir to get the tops to drop in to the right.

 

I actually felled it at head height and bored it through under the lean to where I felt it was right, left a higher hinge on the left and then cut the holding strap (dog tooth) at the back when I was happy with everything.

 

This was for two reasons:-

 

The tree had a back limb which I had felled off and the bottom metre was twice the width, so i would have to do more cutting and potentially if the tree was to hold perfectly and follow the gob all the way down I would have had more hinge at the left to cut through whilst it was falling to deliberately make it 'fail' to the right and get the tops to drop through the gap.

 

Secondly, I always prefer to use a smaller, fast cutting saw, wherever possible, and I don't like riving about with big saws on slopes if I can help it.

[18 stoner]

Nice one Nige!