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Boy, oh boy...this is a REALLY old thread :). But the good lessons within it are just as relevant as ever.

I don't really think so, Rskybiz. I think the reason the Coos Bay helps avoid a barberchair is simply that you have reduced the amount of wood fibre that has to be severed for the tree to commit to the lean. This allows you to make that release cut fast, keeping ahead of the tendency to split...

Bump, following Skwerl's lead on the other Coos Bay thread.

Thanks to Willie and Gary for filling in for me while I was away. Y'all are of course correct. It was more like about 3 inches in...the tree was 12 or 13 inches in diameter at that point, which was about 6 feet off the ground. This tree was even more heavily stressed (tension on the back side...

Sounds like that would have been a perfect situation for this felling cut, Jim.

Jerry, I have heard that trees can freeze, but I don't really know. It doesn't seem likely that the moisture in a live tree could actually be completely ice...but I don't live in Siberia or central BC, so maybe??? For certain though, wood is more brittle when it is very cold. It doesn't hinge...

You got it, Jerry. Huge compression on the lean side. It was LOUD when it popped. I've worked outside in cold weather for nearly 30 years...too many, perhaps. My hands have gotten frost nipped enough times that now they are awfully suseptible to the cold. I'm used to wearing the right...

During my day in the snow felling trees to widen the X-C ski trail I took out this little bowed over silver fir. It was too small to bore the back cut, and was so heavily loaded up with snow that I knew I'd be unlikely to get a face cut in it without pinching my bar. So I didn't put in my...