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It's possible, Stig, that it was just the way things looked and felt to you on that particular day. I recall well backing down from picking cones from a particularly challenging western white pine a couple of decades ago. My climbing partner looked at me, looked at the tree, and said, "no way...

Indeed. Nothing quite as exciting as having to step up so the back cut is even with your knees and heave a setback top over by muscle, is there :\:. I seem to recall it is, anyway... :)

I understood you just fine, Jay...I couldn't for the life of me understand Butch's apparent enthusiasm for it. Now I see he went tangential on us :).

Losing a top??

Agreed.

That would be an attractive upgrade, for sure. One of my much less expensive come alongs has sort of a spring loaded metal flap the pushes down against the spool and line, sort of helps keep things snug...wonder if yours might be modified similarly, and if it might help any.

I think that thin walled handle is supposed to bend if/when you exceed the rated load, Scott. No wonder you get more than 2 tons out of it :D.

But not very far :).

Butch, Scott means this tool. http://www.harborfreight.com/8000-lb-cable-winch-puller-543.html

We agree, as I said...don't fall in the wind :). The trick is reading the character of the wind...if you are cutting in a place with a decent view off to windward, you can perhaps see the face of the gust coming your way from a sufficient distance off to be able to read the "lay downs" and make...

If by set a line, Butch means a pull-to-the-lay line, then a wind 90 degrees to that of sufficient strength can overule the hinge and that line will do you no good...in which case, I disagree :). Jed...the answer to your question is yes, most definitely...wind can tear a hinge off a corner and...

Sometimes wind is in your favor and you can easily put a tree in a place you otherwise might not, but only with a steady wind. Most of the time, I don't fall trees in the wind. But then, most of the time I don't use a rope on them either. I have more choice in the matter than many cutters do.