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Well yes usually a maple if cut green and with an open enough face cut will hold clear to the ground .Even a bone dead one will hold long enough it won't flip flop on the way down before it breaks over .Now those old hundred year old hollow ones won't but they usually go where you aim them .Then...

I have no idea what a BPZ is but they do rot from the inside out .To tell the truth before the EAB thing the silver maple probabley provided the majority of the tree trimmers incomes locally . The fattest one I ever encountered I have a picture of in 1909-10 and about 10 years ago when it was...

They get big just about everywhere .Problem is they get hollow about everywhere too given enough time . Suppossedly silver maple is a native Ohio tree yet in my 65 years on this earth I've never seen a one of them growing in the woods .Those are all sugar maples .

I can see in a cirumstance like that leaving a fat hinge .I thought you were going to pinch the saw there for a moment though. Those soft maples were planted about the turn of the last century and they last about 100 years it seems before they go funky .Unusual to see a multiple to get that...

I suppose this example is just about typical of a conventional type fall except on the left coast with those Humbolt under cuts .It was a pull btw because of a little back lean .There's only about 1" of hinge and the back cut is an RCH higher than I usually do.That's a 30" plus ash about 75 feet...

Well WTH I was born on in 1948.Still at 220 but unfortunatley it's not 90 percent muscle like in the avatar pic .--chit happens and we age .On the other hand the alternative to aging being demise is not acceptable.---some day yes but not this day ---:D

Why Murph if that's you fence posting that tree down it looks like you've broadened your horizons so to speak .

So after all this is this patented Murf cut for a back leaner then? If it's just for pull type thing a simple old back cut and fall would work just as well I'd think .Leaves a neater looking stump too if that matters .Of course if you mow them off at the ground I don't suppose it makes much...

Actually I do but those old Bashlins haven't been used in over 20 years .The pads are shot . Maybe 4-5 years ago I hooked a 25 foot spar just to see if I could still do it .Nor bad I was only stiff and sore about a day over that deal .

I had to Google that and all I came up with is a cruise ship from Holland .Now granted a big old 100 thousand HP liner would pull over a tree but how would you get one in a back yard ?:?

That's the diff Murph .Many of us do not use pull lines . You gotsta remember Murph you are pulling yard trees .How pray tell would you get a pull line in a tree in the middle of a 40 acre woods on the side of a hill .Helium ballon ?

Well now just by the law of physics with that low cut and break over it will kick the butt end out ,can't happen any other way . Now like with a bent over tree that gets smashed from another take down it will barber out but usually pinchs the saw .That low cut still bothers me about tossing the...

You're confusing me here Stigster .If the thing stood up all by itstelf with a back lean before you wittled on it why would it tear out the roots no matter how you cut it . I'm not questioning your knowledge because you've tripped thousands compaired to my hundreds .It's just most people who...

Well okay ,with a bore and back strap you are making the release cut outward .It happens fast but you are clear of the tree before it trips . What happens on that step gizmo if it barbers out on you and tosses the saw back at you as it goes over ? If it flings that saw you'd never be able to...

What low stump cuts ?Fer crips sakes I'm not a pro and I can get them right at ground level .Big fat ones too.:D

That so called step gizmo is just a semi controlled barber chair .