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Previously, trying to salvage mushroomed wedges, I'd used a bandsaw and a course papered power sander, but as you say, Jay, stinky. Inhaling hot plastic fumes, no good.

I've had few trees set back, as I'm usually really good about getting a wedge started if I'm not sure it forward leaning, but we did have one not too long ago. I'd never tried it before, but I just bored into the closed backcut toward the lay, inserted a wedge, pounded it in. Worked like a...

With two 8" wedges, without beat up/ cut up tips, you can bore through the facecut, as above, and then go to the back side and bore in below the first kerf by 1/2" or little more. Set both wedges with alternating taps, then drive them with alternating blow until they have some pressure on them...

Willie showed a vid with the plunge cut through the face, flat/ even with the horizontal of the face cut. When the tree goes over with the wedge protuding into the face, it is supported, and not snapped off.