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Three truths. I am lucky to be alive and when felling, notches are the best practice. If you do decide to give it a tree, keep in mind where exactly your tipping point is and and how it will react. If you use one flare it can pivot and twist and if you use two we will have more control. In my...

Curiosity and practical experience seems to me to be a good combo. Twist in the grain is generally something I only experience with open grown trees. Forest or sheltered trees do not seem to twist. I am going to read up on this>

Not asking fellers to give up notching trees. the point is to make use of what the tree provides. Wood! How many of you utilize the twister cut, beaver cut, plunge cut etc and apply your experiences with tension and/or compression wood. The root flare is the most tenacious wood in trees and...

Yeah cept I was trying to cut out a dish a wood for less grinding Or to speed the rot Thanks Dan.

Wrong tree in the wrong place in front of Historic home1890 in old Galt. I drove away from it twice and made sure the HO was positive it had to go. Once you get driving around and see all the J maples in the neighbourhood and spending the whole yr at a 100 unit condo with almost every fy tree a...

I did a massive 12" at the stump Japanese Maple yesterday and you can plainly see in small diameter trees that the root flare is quite capable of pulling it to the lay. It is quite tenacious. The Large Oak I did yr or two ago was the same. Large Sugar I did nearly took out the fence, with a...

Thanks Cory Just thinking back over the years of tree failures, I can't remember one that barber chaired at the root flare. I have also done plenty of removals and few well over 24" where the root flares are dug out and then cut with the chainsaw to drop the tree stump and all. This is nothing...

Like splitting some root flare with an axe. It's different, it holds on somethin fierce.

Thanks for the responses gentlemen. Still hoping for others experiences be it notchless or notched with observations more importantly experienced when cutting root flares/compressed/reaction wood

Yep 3 cuts is way better. Most of my work is urban or developement and usually crap trees on a fence a line or hedge row and find the need to go verry low to miss the metal then again rocks and dirt aren't much better.

Anyone give this a go? I ahve done this many times, Fluchcut with the ground and utilizing the root flare to get it to the lay. Oaks, maples and Spruce and pines all seem to cooperate when the root flare is in tact and the centre of mass is to the lay. A few times ropes and wedges needed to...