coos bay for large heavy leaners

[gf beranek]

Yeah!

 

[squisher]

I'll be looking forward to reading how this all went. Great discussion.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Ditto! Be safe mang

 

[sierratree]

here you go.......video to follow

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Safe and on the ground. Excellent
This has been a real informative thread .... The tree house rocks

 

[sierratree]

well....didn't coos bay it. just stuck to the old school. wasn't the time to experiment. the tree did re-locate abit when i removed the backstrap. those cracking sounds always keep you on your toes....... but i set it up first with an undercut, so if it did decide to go all the way, there was a direction for it to follow.

 

[woodworkingboy]

Good feeling when it goes as expected or hoped for. Nice work.

 

[pantheraba]

Yeah, fine job. Thanks for this thread and the follow-up. Good info has come from this.

 

[SouthSoundTree]

Nice work!

Where are you in the sierras?

I used to live in Tahoe.

 

[Thor's Hammer]

Great pics. Good work.

 

[gf beranek]

Good deal. It's behind you now. I'd like to have been there to watch that one.

 

[forestryworks]

Nice! You done good there. I think we all come across a few of those trees that we study and study over for a week or two or three and then it turns out all it needed was a good old school humboldt and a backcut. Good job!

 

[stig]

Good to see that one safely on the ground.
That is not something we'd come across here in our well managed ( some would say, over managed) forests, except for after a big storm.

 

[SkwerI]

Excellent work and great documentation. One of the best threads on this forum in a while. Thanks for including us on this one.

 

[sierratree]

Yep....there were a couple of lessons, there. One was I would have like to had the tree have more speed. It kind of stalled at the crowns of it's neighbors about 10 feet away. I think it's because it was a DF I could have had a narrower hinge, which I didn't, and consequently made it procede too slowly.

The next lesson was I should have center bored the hinge, which would have allowed the tree to pull more to the side I wanted it to go to. The complete strip of hinge kind of held it in its natural lead which also made it stall a bit.

The next lesson was I could have hung in there at the stump longer, which would have allowed me to get the speed I desired. But the pucker factor was up there, which made me not want to hang around too long, so it was a slow motion fall.

As you all know, it's a balancing act between the desired results you want, and the ability to recognize when to hold em and when to fold em.

 

[Bermy]

Most Excellent!
Great pictures and a great self evaluation at the end...very informative to read about how it went and what you discovered to go along with the pictures...thanks!

Man, you stylin'...ALL your PPE, and a couple big wedges in your pockets...nice

 

[SkwerI]

"Is that a big wedge in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?"

 

[Bermy]

Taking liberties with my post...

 

[sierratree]

that's cool........"ATG ATT" "all the gear all the time"

 

[stehansen]

Good job guys.

 

[sierratree]

oh wait a minute, Bermy.............now i get it...............

 

[sierratree]

video of fell

Well.here's a short vid of the fell.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyYAVTHfbmQ

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Gotta love that BOOM at the end. Nicely done !

 

[Jack]

Well.here's a short vid of the fell.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyYAVTHfbmQ

Nice bit of hustle there at the end, sierratree ... GOOD JOB! THANKS FOR THE VID!!!

 

[gf beranek]

Looks like an excellent place to work.