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Where ya think these big trees we're hinging over came from????? STICKS.....:lol:

A little too much tension. The wood was sound. I figured it might go, so had positioned myself for it. It didn't go fast, just gently fell to gun. There's no way I'd notch and set up a tree next to a house without some tension on it.

Murph makes his backcut below the hinge cut. I cut above the hinge! Actually I tried it again today. I was working alone, and had a gum to cut. I set a line in it and pre-tensioned with the Maasdam. I stepped up about 12' and made a face cut, then plunged from both sides to establish the hinge...

I got a call from a guy I climb for last week. He had a customer with a pine, ~85'-90' tall, leaning quite heavily toward the house, with the whole back half of the stump dead/rotten. I don't know how it held as long as it did. I climbed up about 75' and hung a 1/2"x200' line in it, and nicked...