Tree felling vids

[davidwyby]

I have been consistently impressed/frustrated by how strong ironbark is and how much wedge force is required.

 

[Kaveman]

If it lands good, it is good!

In all seriousness, I salute your scientific approach to dealing with your particular local species and their unique attributes. That said, I think it's a lost cause. Eucs in the US are garbage. Maybe they're awesome in they're homeland, but they're awful here.

I know a guy that climbs though...

 

[davidwyby]

 

[Burnham]

The Murph!

 

[davidwyby]

I'd like to think that even if the title hadn't had BC in it, I would have seen that coming, 'cuz as soon as I saw that hinge, I thought, "Oh no...".

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Stoopid is as stoopid does.
Still cant shut his trap.

 

[davidwyby]

The older I get, the thinner I like my hinges...

 

[Burnham]

He does like to yap, doesn't he.

 

[davidwyby]

I think a lot of it may be cultural, from where he lives. Big eastern city style.

 

[davidwyby]

Reaming a tree down, or “felling over the saw”.

Not really promoting the method, it’s just interesting. No barber chair or fiber pull if you get it right. I don’t know why he didn’t just run all the way out the back.

I have done this on small yard spars.
It works better back bar plunging because the chips stay in the kerf and pile up, reducing how much the front compressed and how much you have to ream. Also, the chain going around the tip self feeds the saw.

 

[Burnham]

I cannot imagine under any circumstance choosing that method.

 

[Mick!]

Ironically a 2ft fibre pull right in the middle of the log.

 

[davidwyby]

I cannot imagine under any circumstance choosing that method.

On that tree I’d have done a Humboldt, bore and trigger.

A poor example I did just for grins for my buddy back east who always harvests valuable timber that way.

Of interest is that the low side back cut pulled out of the butt and the high side pulled out of the stump.

Did I already post that ? Oh well. One of these days I’ll sit down and clog up the official work pics thread with the story on the whole big job, lots of fun.

 

[Mick!]

There was a vid of a guy doing the same with a walnut a few years back, worked well with the sharpest of sharp saws, a fairly neutral tree lean wise and a clear exit. By all accounts it’s not uncommon on the highest value timber.
Nevertheless I bet they pick and chose carefully what trees they try this with.

 

[davidwyby]

It’s kind of an unspoken method in the Midwest from what I understand. It’s sketchy, not for newbs, and subject to criticism.

 

[Nutball]

I remember being all careful cutting a highly valuable black walnut tree just to have it split in 3rds upon impact.

 

[davidwyby]

I haven’t been brave or dumb enough to try it on a real tree yet. I’d be inclined to stick two wedges just barely in the front to keep the kerf open and give a smidge of direction.

 

[davidwyby]

 

[Burnham]

Red alder can be tricky.

 

[davidwyby]

Getting hugged by a chair up a tree 😬

 

[Burnham]

Oh, shit...

 

[flushcut]

He got lucky!

 

[SeanKroll]

There's the normalcy bias in action.

 

[stikine]

Thoughts on what he might have done differently? Nip the corners ( ends of hinge ) first?

 

[davidwyby]

Thoughts on what he might have done differently? Nip the corners ( ends of hinge ) first?

That’s my question. Makes me like my bucket 😆

That was suggested. Also “climb high, small tops, small problems”. He said he had already taken i think 4 tops out of the tree without issue.

Maybe take some head weight off the top?

Maybe a deeper face, boring seems like hazardous hassle while climbing,