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With the size of trees you work, I wouldn't recommend it:lol:

I've used the TG cut twice for real, after farting around with it some, where it didn't matter. Once to avoid hitting a 3 foot natural stone wall, the other time to awoid crushing 2 quince bushes. Had to make the stump REALLY high for the wall, but it saved a takedown (And impressed the hell out...

That was all business as usual for trees that size in that setting. Not much room to put them down and not much crown weight to pull them trough. In that case you want as little hinge wood as possible. He also followed the faller's 1st rule: if at all possible, fell them towards the lean. That...

One thing I'll do, is set stumpshot in the side it has to roll towards, then I get the benefit of both the low backcut and the stumpshot. Obviously one should get the hell out of Dodge when using no stumpshot. Something old with a big canopy is too heavy to roll off another tree, without...

When trees have to roll of other trees in order to get down, stumpshot will sometimes cause a bad tear out in the bottom of the log. I don't use it either in those cases, might even set my backcut a little lower that the face, to be absolutely sure it can roll free.