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Gerry's post wins the internet. I especially like this phrase: First, always remember this... when attempting to cut a heavy limb, spar or tree, no matter what method you use, there's strong potential of rip roaring consequences and TOTAL LOSS OF CONTROL. It's the nature of the beast...

So Brian, if you don't do any cut at the front, don't you risk a massive tear and saw grab?

What Marc describes is what I was taught how to fell a heavy leaning small tree that is too small for a bore cut. I reckon if I had tried to bore those branches yesterday the bore would have pinched. Could be wrong but it's what my brain said when I sized it all up. Coos bay worked a treat for...

Excellent bump of this thread! I read it again and then yesterday I had some long almost horizontal branches on a huge gum tree to remove. People watching...branches heavy 14" bar on the 200t only just long enough, slightly too short on some. Shallow face, cut the sides deep, felt a couple just...

This thread was going through my head yesterday, big leaning limbs in a poplar. To coos or not to coos, that was the question, whether it was more noble to suffer the slings and arrows of a sudden snap and it's subsequent outrageous fortune...or cut those sides.

Thanks Gerry...never used it to 'bend' a branch but I see how it could. I use it like a controlled snap cut, rather than just one undercut and the topcut, put several in to spread the dissapation of the tension and compression, so it collapses rather than goes...BAM!...helps reduce the spring...

So it has a name...! Always a bit nervous to post with the big boys and the big trees in this forum, but hey, might as well jump in

For some big limbs I did a series of compression cuts, like five, then started top cuts staggered to fit between, the first one just enough to see the limb move, then come back to the second, (more if needed)..and as it went the compression cuts collapsed and it all dropped away very easily.

Thats the ticket Jed, and it just happened to be the first serious head leaner I've had in a while that was low risk enough to try something new on!

I tried it today...on a palm tree. The trunk was nearly horizontal to the ground, about 20' long with the top portion heading back vertical because it had found the light again, probably got blown over in a storm. Palms are notorious for settling on your bar as the fibrous trunks are cut and the...