Got My Chainsaw Course Next Week...

[Eddy_t]

Yea I do remember stuff ! Wait till you get to a soft Dutchman with a tapered hinge for adverse leaners !

 

 

Don't confuse the poor guy! Personally I prefer a tongue and groove with a wedge

[RichieR]

Go on then Stubby how does that one go and yes silky your right it's a split level

[RichieR]

Evening Eddy

[Gray git]

Go on then Stubby how does that one go?

Normal wrong as you've overly complicated a situation ;-)

[@Wildlife_Mgr]

I have my first day teaching on Friday....I shall do the same. This is your thread mate. Do what the hell you want with it..Arbtalk is a Platform and people get a lot of pleasure from it...load it with Pictures...video.....chat...it's all good:thumbup::thumbup:

 

Very true mate.

 

Good luck with the teaching

[Eddy_t]

Go on then Stubby how does that one go and yes silky your right it's a split level

 

 

Good evening a soft Dutchman is where the flat-cut of the gob extends past the point of intersection of the angled cut on one side only (the side you want the tree to move away from) as this closes first and breaks the hinge. This is coupled with an angled hinge, where the thicker side pulls the tree in that direction.

[RichieR]

Hi Eddy . so I could use this cut to bring a forward leaner around a bit if my landing area is only small

[Eddy_t]

Hi Eddy . so I could use this cut to bring a forward leaner around a bit if my landing area is only small

 

 

Yup, depending on size and species, I've done 45 deg with connies and willow (that's 45 degrees of twisting as it falls).

[RichieR]

I got leylandii I reducing down from 40 foot down to 8. Only trouble is I got to try to the forward leaners to land them on a road . And if I just chog them down then I never gonna finish them

[@Wildlife_Mgr]

Well that's all the hard work done... Just got to assure the assessor that I know what I'm on about, I'm safe, and I can take down trees (up to 380mm ) safely...

 

Assessment day is Tuesday but tomorrow is chipper training which basically means the brash I've created this past week is going to be chipped as part of that course and believe me, there's some bloody brash

 

A couple of pics of one of my training partners during today's felling. You can't really see how bad the snow was coming down but pretty much everything was white over in minutes :eek: