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  1. gf beranek

    Mastering the Humbolt notch?

    Yes, it can in deed do that, but not everytime. Squish is right about laying the trees side hill. It's too much work climbing up and down the hill to limb and buck every tree you cut. Of course on the edge of waterways you don't always have that option.
  2. gf beranek

    Mastering the Humbolt notch?

    That looked like a pretty sound tree. Makes me wonder why it was coming down. The tree ferns were pretty. That little scarf Graeme took of the butt of the tree, but the shot didn't last long enought to see it completed, well it is one way of squaring the edge for the tree to meet the stump...
  3. gf beranek

    Mastering the Humbolt notch?

    Go back and watch the tree in "Wager's" It rolled off the stump when it hit the bay clump and Douglas firs, and then slid down their stems, like a slide, to the sidehill,,,, where 3 of the crew were standing and watching. Wrong place to be. They should have known better. You can't see them...
  4. gf beranek

    Mastering the Humbolt notch?

    Forest trees in good form, single stemmed and tall, there's definite and certain mechanical advantage to using the Humboldt: 1. Falling the tree uphill, absent of any crown, the butt of the tree will rest back on the stump. In this case the Humboldt helps keep the tree from shooting down the...
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