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Point the triangle Burnham, it won't swing, but you can direct the fall somewhat.

I have always found that the double face gives me a certain amount of directional control. On the pics at the start of this thread, it allowed me to swing the poplar a good 10 foot around the stems of two other trees.

Nice work. Spruce usually holds together pretty well, but it looks like the fibres in the back cut were pulling and separating.

In this situation, I used the double face method as I felt it would be impossible to bore out the centre, due to the major longtitudinal cracks in the timber. I think the tree would have sheared badly had I tried to bore it. Timewise, the 'backcut' is the same as the coos bay, although this...

Less pouring, more spurting?

Not exactly a desk job ;) But I do like to keep my hand in where I can...

Aspen is real shit timber, and there was a every chance this tree could take my head off with a titanic multi barberchair. So I opted to use the doubled front cut, as taught by the old Swedish manuals. The idea is to put 2 face cuts in the front, 90 degrees apart, and the resulting 'arrow' will...

Few months back, I got called out by the local council to look at a Dangerous Aspen that had semi lost a limb over a road, in a local nature park. The broken limb had half sheared through, and was hanging over the road. We decided the tree had to be felled there and then, as the main stem had 3...