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I'm cocky but I've wised up and my heart is in the right place.

I didn't mean that in a cocky way B.

Ill have to agree. It sure is nice to choke the bugger up and solve the problem with a a winch control lever.

Come log in some 2nd growth low grade eastern timber. Select cutting I mean. Sometimes you know you're in for a hanger before you even start cutting. Often just a matter of picking the best of bad situations and hoping you can skate by. Sometimes the work just has a high stem per acre count and...

B, are you speaking strictly about conifers? I'm curious. In eastern hardwoods with tops that can firmly intertwine, I've found it difficult to manipulate the sliding stem substantially to one side or the other. Not to say I haven't had any luck, but it seems in my rookie hands, those large...

Picture the tree leaning at an angle and laying into another tree. Making matching snap cuts straight up and downward. Leaves a pile of pieces on the ground that are cut at an angle. Pressure and tension is critical here, and so is watching your feet. I'd rather that tree not slide down 5 feet...

Fence posting. Diagonal cuts up/down through the wood to keep dropping the tree straight downwards. Which has its own risks too. The standing portion at some point may want to go over in god knows which direction.

I've hung too many trees up while doing selective logging. How do you trip the standing tree safely? You don't. It's dangerous. Making it safe is sort of out of the question. Using your gut and your brains to decide whether to do it is key. My opinion is make good and damn sure your footing and...