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You didn't have enough pull, or pulling power or rigging for TOO thick of a hinge. A proper hinge would have pulled much more easily. If you tied a bowline with a bight at the mid point, you would have two loops to put over your bumper ball (barring grease) and two legs. If you tied at the...

17% thickness of hinge should be more like 5-10%. Easy to split a tree with too thick of a hinge and too hard of a pull. You pull the tree apart, rather than pivot it over, on the hinge. The bore-cut to set the hinge is great protection to a bad hinge, if you know what the hinge should look...

Why did you use ANY stump shot? You cut off the corner of the hinge, as seen in the picture. Harder to judge with stump shot. Stump shot is for preventing the tree from pushing over the stump backward when felled tree hits other trees on the way down (crown interference). You can double over...

I'm guessing the pull rope wasn't very tight. No load in bed of 2wd. Think hinge.Newb. Isn't that more of a pecan bush?

I thought it was a good diagnosis, too. Brian, I'm also misunderstood in writing a lot. It'll be a cool day when forums will just have little video snips. Rather than writing LOL, you will see someone's coffee on the screen. Until then, we have to hope they develop the missing emojis, like...

What percentage of diameter was your hinge? Go get a magnetic bubble level, go in the garage, use a mirror, practice holding the bar level, look in mirror, and check the bubble. P.S. you might be tall, with a short bar, and standing. Looks like you need to cut at a comfortable height...

The Sherlock Holmes comment. Could go either way. F'ing text-online, non-real time, interaction. Quite primitive, considering someone walked on the moon and came back alive and well in 1969 or so...50 years basically. In time, it will all be video posts.

If you redirect the rope back to the cutting area, with the maasdam anchored separately, but near the victim tree, you can cut and pull, cut and pull from the same area. Cut off your bark. You will see splitting early on if pulling too hard for the hinge. I left slightly too much hinge on a...

How tight is a D String? Specifically, what is 'nipping'? You started nipping. You need to cut intentionally and accurately. Any you had a tractor their that would have pushed the thing right over.

How thick was your original hinge as a percentage of diameter? It was simply too thick (and sloping), then cut off on one side, falling to the other, as expected. The tree did exactly what you asked it to do. Be happy you're neither crushed beneath, or injured getting out. How much leverage...