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Yahhhh. Death to that damned dead oak!!!:lol:

Dang y'all. Ya know I'm a CA right? Not just a stoopid logger.:D :P:lol:

Lol, did you even have to pull it........really?:P

But you can admit that without a wedge in the backcut kerf the tree in this particular scenario is gonna setback hard(possibly hard enough to pop the hinge and loose the tree?) 'if' somehow the line or something in it's system fails as unlikely as that may be. Now seeing as how there's a house...

Y'all have missed my point if there ever was one now. Use a damn line to pull the tree over. If you're a fully equipped and capable tree man a good back-up safety to employ in similar situations is to tap a wedge into that backcut. NOT to wedge the damn dead tree over when it's easy peasy to...

You're missing the point Jay. What if the rope broke, for whatever most unlikely reason. Wouldn't you wish you had stuck a wedge in the backcut? Not to wedge a dead oak tree over but for the just in case of the rope failing. That wedge would give you the opportunity to set a new line/fix the...

EHP 361 or 660. The 660 rips real nice. Or I could use a bagged out 46.:lol: Out of the box factory chain? Shoot I sharpen them up just to get them up to snuff. Lol.

That I would like to see.:lol: My saws are razor sharp and my two main guns either of which I'd be using on this tree are woods modded. So actually I'd have the tree down and cut up with a wedge having been stuck in the backcut while you would still probably be widdling out your notch.:P As...

You are understanding that I'm talking about using a rope and a wedge as a back-up right? So I guess that makes me more right than you.:P

My take on it is this. In climbing we're all about redundant systems/back-ups to increase safety. A wedge is a extremely simple time efficient back-up in that situation. I'm certain that tree could easily be pulled back, it doesn't look to big or to bad of a lean. But I'd still have a wedge...

Well whatever squirrelly man. But I still throw a wedge into a backcut even while using a pull line.:P Maybe it's my bush background but I don't feel comfortable felling a tree, spar or whatever without having a axe and wedges around.

Carl, why wouldn't you put a wedge in? Not because it's needed but as a safety. If anything in your line system fails the wedge would be there to stop it from sitting back and it only takes a second.

I know pics are deceiving but you're certain there's not enough room to lay it with the lean? For what it's worth a bucket truck would have that on the ground in the time it took to take the pictures.;)