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I may have mentioned this before but, hinges are strong and they work. If someone has the magic answer for a supposed problem, with social media, they might make a mountain out of a molehill. You had trouble with a thick hinge before then just got panicky 'nipping', and ... I don't think you...

What is your hinge thickness as a percentage of tree diameter at hinge height? Screwing up which side is which, and not knowing... well, um,... Do you know how dangerous this line of work is? Zero pressure from a customer or an audience of customers, and ...

I wasn't suggesting you use a Coos Bay. In a Coos bay, you have a center hinge-like strip of holding wood, that is cut of from the tension side toward compression. The weight of the tree wants to tear the holding wood, but it stays until cut. I was saying that if the hinge is oriented to face...

Pine isn't a barberchair prone species. Straight-grained hardwoods are the big culprit, more forest grown, than open-grown, with more branches and knots. How many degrees off the lean is the desired layout? I don't hardly cut pine, so someone with species-experience will be able to tell you...

How did the tree fall in relation to the face-cut. The pull doesn't direct a well-faced tree any more than a wedge or gravity, while the hinge functions.

Face cut, back cut fast, nice and even. Limb. buck. If you're not up to a fast backcut to an even hinge, then sure, bore-cut and backstrap release. Its pine, not straight-grain, forest-grown/ crowded-grown hardwood prone to barber-chairing.