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No, they are called stuff like Euraka bearpull, Habegger HIT or Greifzug ( The last one is COMPLETELY identical to my Tirfor!) I've even seen one made in an Eastern European country, but I can't remember the name. Commie winch, probably!

The original patent is Swiss. So are the original Tirfors. But after the patent ran out, I see copies from all over. Chris, that was what I figured. That someone else had thought along the same lines and come up with the same solution. Great minds think alike:lol:

I'm not, Al. Read it again. This is a different animal. You plunge cut the middle out of the tree first, THEN you cut your face, thus avoiding getting your saw pinched when cutting your hinge thin enough to avoid a barberchair. For use on hollow or core rotten heavy leaners of species that...

Are they using the real Tirfor in your part of the world, or the Japanese Eureka knock off? My 5 tonner is a Tirfor, the 1 tonner is a Swiss Habecker knock off. When I worked in Switzerland, the locals were telling me that Habecker is the best winch ever made. Took me about 20 years before I...

It is a complete bitch to roll up after use. Also the winch itself is very heavy, so we mostly use the little 1 ton model and only bring out the big one for those special occasions. For pulling trees over it is much easier to set the line high enough in the tree that one can use less power and...

He tied it off before coming down. Good thing BTW, it was a t200, those things are getting hard to find:) Truly a treeguy. Not " good thing you saved the poor hydrangeas", but "how did the saw fare?". Gotta love it:lol:

I think he has it in him to become a really good faller. He doesn't know this , but we are going to offer him a permanent job, once he finishes his education. He is fun to be with, a hard worker, non smoker ( or he would not have been with us!) in good shape ( great shape, actually) and shows...

Since we are poor Euro fallers without springboards, he had to cut steps into the side of the tree in order to get above the hollow part.:lol: Martin did real well on that tree, for a guy who is only ½ way through his first logging season.. I'm wondering, have any of you come across that...

We had another opportunity to use that cut yesterday at Ledreborg castle. Double ash, totally hollow and one leader was leaning BAD. I let Martin, the apprentice, try his skills at it. That really made his day, he did the cutest victory dance when it was on the ground:) These pictures are by...

I had made the cut about a foot wide, so I left the 880 in the back of that. You are right, that if I had left it just behind the intended hinge, it would have been pinched.

I finished the hinge BEFORE cutting the face. That was the whole idea! I did that because I would have got the saw pinched otherwise. Fiona, I cut the side next to me out, the other side ripped from the weight of the tree. That is why I chose to cut the near side first, that way I wouldn't be...

Burnham and Willie should love this one! I was running a 60" bar!!! I got a call from the local State Forestry District yesterday. They had a hazard tree they wanted gone, and since it was next to a road, they wanted it gone, pronto! I know the tree well, since I took a large broken branch out...