Luck or judgement?

[Czlowiek Drzewo]

lucky!

 

I would have put a bigger mouth on it .... more control in direction of fell.

[skyhuck]

lucky!

 

I would have put a bigger mouth on it .... more control in direction of fell.

 

Thats the one!!! NO NOTCH = NO DIRECTION!!!

[Mesterh]

I didn't hear you, you should of said it a bit louder

 

CAPS LOCK NEXT TIME THEN

[Mesterh]

Thats the one!!! NO NOTCH = NO DIRECTION!!!

 

Lol

 

That sounds slightly familiar

[Dean Lofthouse]

One trick I have used a few times is if you have an anchor point in line with the hinge some distance away is put in a lowering rope as high as you can down to the anchor point and put a bit of tension on. Then when you fell the rope follows the same pivot as the hinge but the tip of the stem cannot move towrd the fence.

[Ben]

Luck with style though!

 

 

[Rob Murf]

Luckly judged!!

Hopefully we are all moving from less luck -----to more judgment .

Great to see the vid and the analysis. A bit like a good debrief.

With a fence so close a stay rope( 90 degrees fall direction) to plus a pull rope would have been ideal.

A deeper face cut(gob) with the direction slightly more away from parallel to the fence line.

We would have had wedges in the back cut nearest to fence side.But i drum it into my guys to always have axe and wedges with them when falling.

Awesome that their are so many experts in one room:001_tongue:

[Rob Murf]

Cheers guys i hear wot your sayin about a bigger gob but there was a great big hole in one side of the tree and i wanted to try and leave as much sound wood as possible to use for the hinge. I like the idea of usin the butress roots to hold it though steve.

 

Here's a pic of the stump

 

Was that a back release cut? and are those your wedges in the top left hand corner?