Treeaddict
Treehouser
I was cutting a large heavy horizontal limb on a tulip poplar a few weeks ago. I’d usually piece it out in small sections but decided to try to coos bay the thing. I got maybe 15% in on the first cut on the far side far side and she started to go. This surprised me. Nothing has gone this quick with so little cut. Maybe 10% would be better. I just hid behind the trunk when it started splitting and it fell to the ground just fine.
It got me thinking (again) about the dangers of a BC limb. If the climber is on the trunk behind the limb they are out of reach, correct? Now the limb could hit the ground and spring back butt first into the climber IF the distance from the ground to the limb is short enough to favor that scenario.
The splitting could grab the climbers saw and take it with it potentially.
A fast cutting saw making an undercut and then racing through to top cut to “catch” up to the spilt is acceptable. Top cut placed closer to climber than undercut.
Is my thought process correct? This feels like a review of information that I’ve put in the back of my mind because I always favored the limb walk and small piece method so I kinda ignored some of the methodology and dangers as the info wasn’t used.
It got me thinking (again) about the dangers of a BC limb. If the climber is on the trunk behind the limb they are out of reach, correct? Now the limb could hit the ground and spring back butt first into the climber IF the distance from the ground to the limb is short enough to favor that scenario.
The splitting could grab the climbers saw and take it with it potentially.
A fast cutting saw making an undercut and then racing through to top cut to “catch” up to the spilt is acceptable. Top cut placed closer to climber than undercut.
Is my thought process correct? This feels like a review of information that I’ve put in the back of my mind because I always favored the limb walk and small piece method so I kinda ignored some of the methodology and dangers as the info wasn’t used.