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that's all.. pretensioned pull line, pretty straightforward, as long as you trust your cuts, the hinge wood, andmake sure you have enough pull to get it over. That tree had some size and not one limb over the wires/street was lowered.

same concept (leave the back-side limbs on to prevent having to lower them over difficult obstacles) , different tree...

Here's a beech tree we did earlier this year.. The back side limbs were over primaries and a busy road... this is unfortunately the only vid I got of the concept. All those back limbs ended up going with the wood into the open yard... no lowering, stopping traffic to clear the brush etc... Just...

LIKE THIS??? ;) https://www.masterblasterhome.com/showthread.php?19212-intentional-barber-chair&p=742945#post742945

Wider face with back weighted limbs... Hinge gotta hold til the momentum is to the lay enough to overcome back and side weight... that's in Ger's book fer ser

So do I.. skid steer wouldn't have stopped... the piece came to a dead stop before the hinge broke.. ZERO forward momentum... That's the way I remember the pull line feeling anyways.. Skid loader has speed and some line stretch with the true blue... pert sure it'd werk...

Thanks Stig, I thought it was worth a little show and tell. Pretty sure the skid loader would have created enough momentum to take it to the lay. At that point I had maybe 20-25 minutes in the bucket. I went back up and trimmed a few branch tips, then set a pull line.. 5 more minutes max, so...

Mistakes are opportunities to learn something... I like learning.. especially when its no harm no foul.... And I have learned something here from you all. The fiber tear down the trunk was not the cause, it was secondary to the shallow notch/side and back weight. Its doubtful that scoring the...

you guys will have to work on your willpower eh?

yes it was, and in retrospect I'd have to agree with Squish... I misjudged it... with all that back weight from the limbs, the face should have been further open. not too wide.. another 15º would have been plenty. I didn't need the piece to land flat, just didn't want the but kicking back too...

use everything to your advantage right??? Fun to use the downed piece to protect the fence (under there somewhere) while shortening up the the side limbs before dropping the last stick

here the piece before and after

here's a pic of the hinge and rip, looks like the hinge held til the face closed.. though there was a lot of side weight and the snipe may be very slightly pointed towards the house, of by 5º or so

good point.... pretty sure.. not 100%... I'll post the pics for your perusal

I try to be as honest as possible.. the client came out, peeking around from her back deck and said... "I didn't expect that to come so close to the house" "Neither did I, it was supposed to land over here" I replied..

I was dropping a medium Norway spruce today from the bucket, took all the front and side limbs off. Back limbs were over a fence and garage, so plan was to take them with the wood. after pulling the top, set up another 8-10' piece, fairly heavily back weighted. Cut a narrow humboldt, with a...