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Kennie...You are the one that taught me the concept of "sweating a purchase", pulling sideways on an already tightened rigging system to get more "tightness". I think I am using the right terms...anyway, the sideways pull to tighten is wonderful...thanks for the teaching somewhere back along...

Thanks for tips on straps...wash, rinse, repeat had not occurred to me before. Positioning of ratchet mechanism consideration is good, too...thanks. hahaha...total believer in that one! :lol:

Deva...here is what I did. Face cut; started sweeping back cut at point A...this was to keep the tree from hanging on the right side near the power lines. Got to point B and saw kerf open a little...so the wood at point A and all of B was the hinge. Bailed to other tree. Had skid steer...

Deva...you are talking out of the proper orifice. I'll get back to you when I have time to craft a respondez. Headed to a BBQ now.

You are right about the skidsteer operator...lots of experience with it...uses it to take big trees on his own pretty often. He has a good head for dealing with danger and has god common sense about things. We have worked some tricky diving situations doing commercial work and he runs our dive...

Willie...At the end there was a big pull. The rope was barely tight when I went up. I wish he had barely tugged it when I gave the word to pull...it might have broken over at the face cut. But he laid into the pull when it started going over and that contributed to the rip, I feel sure...he...

About that deeper notch...help me understand here. There was a bit of rot/hollowness at the center of the face cut. A deeper notch would have accessed more of that openness of the hollow cavity...effectively I would have had two posts for a hinge with no center. The hinge was basically going...

Peter...restriction on the DZ was some other nice oaks that we want to keep...they would have been damaged if we felled the tree whole in the best direction. Stig...10-4 on chain above and below...good input. Is a "vchain" a typo or is that a different animal? Jeff...yep, the back cut opened...

hahaha, good one, Stephen...glad to be sitting on this side of that tree laughing today. Good point on the small face, Jerry. I noticed how small it was in the vid, too. On the ground I would have considered a Coos Bay and would have chained/strapped above the face cut. I think Coos Bay...

hahaha...that's good, Peter! Murph...thanks for the input. Good point on the twisted grain..had not thought of that. And 10-4 on terminology...BC did not seem exactly right but it jumped into my head. Split trunk is more accurate. And it did use up the LZ more than planned...good observation.

The tree was committed to the lay I wanted. If I could have been in a good work position without a lanyard on the tree getting cut I think I could have chased the cut quickly and prevented that BC. But once I saw the back cut open a bit that idea went away. The skidsteer was there jut in...

We are getting a site ready for a metal building (1200 sq. ft) and some trees needed to be removed to make room. I had already removed 2 largish oaks, maybe 70 ft, not too many limbs...was able to bomb a lot of the trees. I left about a 30 foot spar, dug out the root ball with an excavator and...