pantheraba
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Dave made this comment in another thread:
It got me to thinking...what are the things that can go wrong with the root/stump of a tree as it is felled?
I have read of and seen video of a root pull from when a heavy leaning tree is cut (cannot find the video yet).
Burnham gave a good description of cutting a head leaner recently...I think he used a bore cut and tripping the back cut from the outside to prevent the spar from pulling the roots out of the ground with the spar (right?).
When I read Dave's description (above) of what happened to him I wondered if the rootball was displaced and angled out of the ground...as the spar separated from the stump did the rootball/stump then drop back into the hole?
I have never cut a leaner while standing on an "out of the hole" stump. I assume that when the spar leaves the stump it can possibly be a pretty violent return back down in the hole (it sounds like that is what left Dave suspended in the air like a fairy
)
How is the feller supposed to cope with that (not the fairy but the rootball falling out from under you)?
nice pics B, good explanation, i could have used that recently, on an uprooted leaning redwood
i learned you can not trip a conventional cut, and leap off the root wad in time....s.o.b. left as i jumped
left me hovering about 10 ft in the air, with a 372 in my hands, to come down about where i was originally
but now the wad was in the ground again
It got me to thinking...what are the things that can go wrong with the root/stump of a tree as it is felled?
I have read of and seen video of a root pull from when a heavy leaning tree is cut (cannot find the video yet).
Burnham gave a good description of cutting a head leaner recently...I think he used a bore cut and tripping the back cut from the outside to prevent the spar from pulling the roots out of the ground with the spar (right?).
When I read Dave's description (above) of what happened to him I wondered if the rootball was displaced and angled out of the ground...as the spar separated from the stump did the rootball/stump then drop back into the hole?
I have never cut a leaner while standing on an "out of the hole" stump. I assume that when the spar leaves the stump it can possibly be a pretty violent return back down in the hole (it sounds like that is what left Dave suspended in the air like a fairy

How is the feller supposed to cope with that (not the fairy but the rootball falling out from under you)?