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Actually Stig, I was trying to catch both the side of the standing tree, and the padding log, right in their joint, in order to keep the log from sliding downhill. I had plenty of room to play with on the right, but if I was off by 2º to the left that would have dominoed the standing spar.. or...

How much are they?

Jay, Here's an email I just got last night: "Hey my name Brent B____y i just wonted to say i enjoy your videos on Youtube i am form Wilmington north carolina. I have been in the tree business for 6 years as a groundsman and i have not seen people in wilmington do rigging like you do.I would...

There is no added effort when the tree is ties to a skid steer.. and often pinpoint accuracy is not needed in bakcyards either. And thank you for bringing in some reasonable dialogue...

Many are quick to shoot arrows, but slow to ask for forgiveness... admitting you're wrong in a public forum takes balls. We'll see if Rocky has a pair. I AM grateful for this thread. I did make a mistake to post this as a good example of the mini notch and I'll start gutting a lot more hinges...

I can live with that! (what blinky said)

And how many more think like Gary or are annonymously here trying to learn something, but would never have the balls that Gary showed to stand up and say something. But you won't hear it.. you have to have your good old boy's club here.. no outsiders welcome and you make sure of it..

You've blown petty bickering into venemous hate... Gary is a good guy and never has a bad word word to say about anybody... and you treat him like that... You're just as nasty as you've ever been.. Apparently getting sober isn't enough... You've got a well of grief all bottled up inside and it...

I said "blindly apply"... of course they can be applied... but we should not try to emmulate loggers in every detail... if they drop 500 trees in a week and we drop 10, how much more important is it for a logger to save 30-60 seconds on a falling cut than it is for us. That 30-60 seconds costs...

I apprecite the support Gary.. and there was no bypass dutchman on that notch.. I went back and looked too, and there was something reflecting light there, that might look like a dutchman, but it was not. A bypass cut looks like a dark line, not light on most video. You can go back and look at...

I disagree... great for you if you have the skills to cut a clean notch everytime... BUT given the lack of proper training in the arborist industry and the liklihood that an unintentional dutchman is by far the most common mistake made by arborists (maybe suburban tree cutters would be a better...

More mudslinging.. good job Chip.. All I've seen from you is pictures of cat rescues.. Put something up yourself and then be my judge..

Just got this PM from youtube: Hey Daniel, I have really enjoyed your videos. It is rare to find someone who is up to date on modern cutting techniques, such as open face cuts and 80% hinge widths like you mentioned recently. Tree felling isn't rocket science yet there are so few people who...

Chip, Again nice job of mudslinging... the post quoted was at TB where they put out 11 replies without one comment about the rigging (on the swinging white oak limbs thread).. you guys put up three pages, with all but one post directly relating to the rigging.. The response to this video over...

Thats a very selfish attitude..

Definitely, I almost always gun the backcut. this was shown on the "siberian elm removal" videos... someone, either here or elsewhere made the comment he had never seen that used before. There was some discussion about it.

What happened to every man is my teacher? We all can teach Rocky.. somebody... Obviously I can't teach Stig much, but there are plenty of people that can learn. For example... I would think that over 90% of Mid-atlantic arborists have never even seen a plunge cut (used to create a hinge) in...

Also Stig, You're a little harsh there.. have a bit of compassion.. I AM just a hard working arborist, trying to make a living, like everyone else. I don't fall trees all day long... You probably fall 100 trees (or more) to my 1... Having the kind of polished saw skills you get so worked up...

These are excellent points... they show the difference between the logger, falling trees in the woods for a living and the arborist, falling trees in suburban setting.. These are different animals with far different needs and concerns. Its a BIG MISTAKE to judge one by the other's standards.. Or...

left the hinge a little thick... the thick hinge did more fighting of the fall than the COG, though COG was a factor..