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Thanks, Daniel!. That's good knowledge to share, and Kudo's to you for sharing.

That's for sure

The Coos's Bay might have been a better way to go for sure. But I was tired and not thinking right. Even If I left it for the first tree in the morning, when I was fresh, the outcome could have been the same.

It was a long day and I was tired. The last tree of the day, Butch, and I thought I had it figured out. Yeah, I got the free ride, caught by total surprise. The saw got stuck in the middle of the bore cut, wtf, the ground moving and brush up hill rising over my head, before I could react I...

When a tree starts falling and pulls it roots out of the ground in the course. In an absolute worse case scenario: on steep ground the roots uphill of the tree you're falling can literally take you and the ground you're standing on down the hill with the tree when the tree goes. No...

I can relate to that, Treebilly. Working in the brush can be anyone's worse day.

Great consequences!!

Murph guessed it. Overall forces are significantly reduced. Ultimately, if the limb is hanging its just the weight of the limb exerting tension. Without any added force of leverage to contend with. Hypothetically speaking a 100 pound 30 foot long redwood limb, sticking out horizontal can...

Tension, pressure, wood fiber and trick cuts. It's all apples and oranges. Isn't it? I must say, though, the end of a long redwood limb can drop a foot each time the curf of the undercut closes. Better be fast or you'll get stuck, and keep a firm grip on that saw because the risk of...

That happened along the Howland Hill Road through Jedidiah Smith Redwoods. Amazing nature.

Indeed, Butch, I agree. The company (Louisiana Pacific) should have left it standing, and that's not in retrospect either. I felt the same back then. But LP was on a campaign, explained to me by the foresters, "To fall all remaining old growth on their lands. Convert it all to...

Our success, and ultimate well being in this trade, rests largely on understanding wood fiber and the forces of tension and pressure that work upon it. If you make it through your first 10 years in this business, with some humility, you just might succeed.

Daniel, I described the Bender cut in the 1996 edition of the Fundamentals, and later demode it in the Working Climber, Series 2, video set in 2010. It has a very good effect to shift the favor of a limb, or even a top, to where you want, and also allows the hingewood to bend and hold the...