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Was that a step cut?

I only watched the first tree. 4 tries to match the corners of the facecut up? And what is with all the backchaining. Most weird. Those wedges suck big time, Butch. The beech "handle" absorbs most of the force of the hammer/maul/axe blow. you can beat on them forever and get nowhere. I tried...

In a residential setting, I like to make the stump high enough that I'm sure of straight grain. But no need to make it so high that running the saw gets uncomfortable. I have two tricks I've used to show new apprentices what we strive for, speed wise. One is to find a tree about the size of...

Heck, I've seen unexperienced people set pull lines in trees with front lean:lol: But when they post videos of "how to do", I expect them to know how to do it.

Yet another backyard cowboy who'd starve to death in the woods. In the time he fiddles around making a face cut, I'd have the tree on the ground and about 1/3 of the limbs off. Why did he waste his time taking all the branches off and setting a line? There is plenty of room to just fell, limb...