Felling cuts

[Sciadopitys]

So it is recommended to do the angled cut first? Thats what i do anyway, as thats what i was taught

[Graham]

This is exactly my point Graham!

 

But it's only dangerous if you cut too far. You have to make sure you don't just as you ensure you don't cut too far with the top cut if you do that first.

[treeclimbit]

smiley face gobs are good for down hill felling

[Eddy_t]

I don't do it to get the most out of the timber or anything like that, but if you've got a real nice big mature tree to drop they seem to fell really nicely with a 'smiley'. Maybe it's just me but they seem to fall harder... we were doing it allot with big spruce near Inverness flattening big heaps of brash on a windrow.

 

It's called the humboldt cut, it means the butt end hits the floor first, causing less breakage of the tree

 

As for the angle of the gob, that can be adjusted to suit the task, if you need the hinge to break early on the fall, a shallower angled gob will cause this, if you're felling and snedding down a hill, you do a wide angled gob, the stump can then hold the butt in place whilst you sned/limb and convert it to length

 

 

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[Stubby]

Ditto but sometimes do what the guys do out in Canada and put the angled cut in the bottom, find that easier sometimes, and then line the top up.

 

Humbolt .

[Taupotreeman]

When I worked in the forests in the early 90's we were taking down Larch. Even the smallest hinge seemed to cause the stem to split up, sometimes over 10 feet. The gaffer has me hang about at the base until the tree was on its way in the right direction and then cut straight through the hinge. Probably not the safest but sometimes I still use that way though for the life of me I can't think why. Otherwise, it's the way I was taught at college. Top cut first followed by horizontal. We were also taught that the face should be 1/4 to 1/5 the diameter of the tree but in NZ it's at least 1/3. Personally, it all depends on the tree, situation, if wedges are needed and how much hinge I need.

 

 

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[gensetsteve]

willow, nice and chewy. cuts like butter. never done any for cricket bats, must be a down your way kind of thing. i saw some amazing ones in essex last time i was down, all weeping growing out of bankings over rivers. picture post card stuff:001_smile:

 

There is only one strain of willow they make bats from I forget which it is but they can tell from the road by the colour of the leaves. It grows very straight and is planted for the purpose then harvested after about 15 years. They use most of the tree and not so much the bit near the bottom. Hurling sticks are made from ash and they are only interested in the bottom of the tree with the roots on so they can get the shape on the stick.

[Gerbutt]

Reg's video on matching cuts has a good way of doing it, well worth a look.

[skyhuck]

There is only one strain of willow they make bats from I forget which it is but they can tell from the road by the colour of the leaves. It grows very straight and is planted for the purpose then harvested after about 15 years. They use most of the tree and not so much the bit near the bottom. Hurling sticks are made from ash and they are only interested in the bottom of the tree with the roots on so they can get the shape on the stick.

 

It the "Cricket Bat Willow"

[breffni]

It the "Cricket Bat Willow"

 

The estate which I live on grow quite a few cricket bat willow. Some of them are massive trees, no branch for 15 metres or so

 

 

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