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I just have a smallish square piece, about 5"x5", of diamond plate steel, 1/4 inch stock. Has a small hole in it I can tie to for keeping it with the jack as the tree goes. It works, but is surely ghetto. 20 ton jack.

Sure. But not often enough to make me decide wedges was more work than pull lines as a general thing. Sometimes it was a real battle, though I can recall only one time I absolutely couldn't get a tree to commit with wedges when I thought I'd be able to. I put in a jack to solve that one.

We'll happily agree to disagree, I'm sure :). But before one can click that maasdam, or pull with the truck or winch, one must place the top line. In my world, I can do a lot of wedging much faster and easier than doing that and setting up the rest. Swinging the axe is no work at all...

I also am a big fan of an electric winch for pulling trees to overcome back lean or back weighted limbs. I agree with your assessment on the difficulty of gauging load with a large vehicle as power source...never a preferred choice for me. Do you use wedges as a regular thing, or are you like...

Shallow face and pulling as well, with that lean? What was the thinking for that technique? Maybe a lot of limb weight counter to the lean?

Little wonder that one chaired on you. Face was way too shallow, I think. Hindsight/after-action review is always easier for making criticisms :).

For those who may not have read this thread...good stuff regarding the Coos Bay cut here. And the whole story from Gerry as to how he came to use it :). Way back in 2008, this was. Ain't that something? Beranek's Coos Bay felling cut vs. Burnham's | The Tree House (masterblasterhome.com)