That sounds like the same story I heard the other day from my friend Greg Liu. He was in New Orleans doing post Katrina clean up and a kid came down out of a tree and they pushed the stub over with a Bobcat. Chunk came down and hit the kid.
Long story short.
Somebody wasn't paying...
Anytime you're falling stubs that's bound to happen. Especially with a narrow face. Opening it wider can give the work a more room to tip before closing the face, and accordingly more momentum to break the hinge.
Open the face with two 45s and a gap at the hinge and the stub can tip and hit...
Anybody in the business that's been doing it long enough has had the occasional short section tip and not break the hinge. It just hangs there. Like in MBs pic. The tricky part comes with cutting it off so it leaves the cut square. It's too easy to cut off one corner and have that section...
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