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Default rule of thumb...back cut higher that face, adjust as necessary.

Clarifying, smaller trees in the bush are still big so 2"...residential, I always fall my trees with a back cut higher than the face, but if it's a tiddler tree the back cut will be commensurately lower than 2"

Yes, big trees, and we were falling big trees, and trees with mush for middles, and dead trees, some with mush for middles. The smaller the tree, the more open the falling area the lower the back cut cut can be but not less than 2". 'kay, done now, you obviously go home alive at the end of every...

The placement of the bottom, the diagonal, the hinge, the back cut, be it in one go or quartered or bored...all of those are constantly discussed and analysed before and after each fall, hence, height of back cuts is an intrinsic part of the discussion

Yup...I had to take some ribbing for being an arborist on my course lol

Level is not good, chance of the butt sliding back at you as it falls..too many fallers been killed or injured from wayward butts...

Seriously Murphy? Variable back cut height was an intrinsic part of the discussion and application to each tree, what, you think if anyone is not you they don't know anything worth knowing about the physics of felling?

Your stumps would have failed my recent fallers course in Tasmania...back cut consistently too low...mind you, eucalypts aren't t oak or pine that's for sure.