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I agree. I brought in a more experienced faller, who has had a few of these type of trees under his belt. We studied it for a while and determined its bark was worse than its bite, so to say. Definitley not to minimize the situation, though. There is always that potential for the unexpected...

Thanks, Stig, for the heads up................Just for info: I stayed on the escape route side of the tree the entire time, except for one cut when I took out the offside. In both instances I had an escape route on the cutting side and never had my body behind the tree. Once the backstrap was...

what's the terrain on the fire? do you contract fall?

what's the fire doing on the sierra nf?

Been learning alot from the posts, here............Lots of great info and quality expertise.... And yep, doesn't pay much, but it's a great office.

video of fell Well.here's a short vid of the fell. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyYAVTHfbmQ

oh wait a minute, Bermy.............now i get it...............

that's cool........"ATG ATT" "all the gear all the time"

Yep....there were a couple of lessons, there. One was I would have like to had the tree have more speed. It kind of stalled at the crowns of it's neighbors about 10 feet away. I think it's because it was a DF I could have had a narrower hinge, which I didn't, and consequently made it procede...

well....didn't coos bay it. just stuck to the old school. wasn't the time to experiment. the tree did re-locate abit when i removed the backstrap. those cracking sounds always keep you on your toes....... but i set it up first with an undercut, so if it did decide to go all the way, there...

here you go.......video to follow

We're off to take care of this tree, tomorrow.........Didn't realize I was interacting with some of the best and knowledgeable sawyers around.........So.............Thanks..........Will get back with some video and pics........

Thanks...............hope to meet both of you in the future..............which would be great...........

Those are great photos.........Did you fell some of these? or just happened by them for a kodak moment? If we go for the strap first, still will bind it up real good with wide webbing and tensioners. So is this Gary posting this thread?

well, are you saying cut the offside first (side with the favor), or throw in an undercut first, then the offside. btw.....no coos bay on this one. just the standard shallow undercut, trim the sides........trip with boring backcut.

yep.............that'l be the off side. and once that's done i don't plan on going back around.............will stick to my escape side.............

tried a couple of cb's this week on some small trees......12"ers.........you have to cut fast and not slow down in the middle, otherwise they will barber...........

just as a sidenote.............the diagram gary showed, shows the triangle with the apex towards the lean. If you guys might recall, in Dent's first book, he shows a diagram with side notching and the apex is towards the rear. either way, the idea is to get rid of the tension on the sides of...

It seems like main stem has already done its thing by separating from the strap. don't think the strap is holding the rest of the tree upright, although it is probably sharing some of the wieight. The strap reconnects up the tree about 30 feet up. My gut feeling is I do think the backstrap...

yeah................i can see the headlines, now...............