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12Bore

Joined: 15 Jun 2008
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Location: Paddling in the Mersey

Posted: Tue Aug 05, 14 8:47 pm Post subject: Precision logging
Impressive! https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=1450767261845493&set=vb.100007366990357&type=2&theater

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
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Posted: Tue Aug 05, 14 9:18 pm Post subject:
there is so much wrong with that that the only right thing is the way it dropped dismantle rather than drop might have been sensible hns re saw,petrol,man positions etc etc the cut didnt seem to have a hinge or a gate im amazed it went where it needed to and that the butt did not jump was extra lucky i would not work with them or employ them

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
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Posted: Wed Aug 06, 14 7:59 am Post subject:

Not would I Dpack. No helmet, although there is one in the foreground. I would definitely go for cut into sections and lower. The moral though is not to plant a potentially big tree near buildings or not to build near a potentially big tree. That isn't big for a Dougie though. Saw that a little while ago on husbands Forestry Forum. Even the cutter didn't have absolute faith it would go the right way, and even so it didn't do the decking much good.

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
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Posted: Wed Aug 06, 14 12:54 pm Post subject:
like this well maybe lower all the bits but it isnt much different to what they should have done

vegplot

Joined: 19 Apr 2007
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Location: Bethesda, Gwynedd

Posted: Wed Aug 06, 14 4:23 pm Post subject:
That's far less exciting.

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
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Posted: Thu Aug 07, 14 9:39 am Post subject:
i prefer less exciting if i might get squashed

crofter

Joined: 11 Feb 2007
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Posted: Thu Aug 07, 14 11:33 am Post subject:
Don't think there was any danger of getting squished there, except maybe the house! Taking it down in pieces would have taken much longer, you could rebuild that little bit of deck many times over in the time saved by felling it like they did, plus they ended up with a nice piece of timber...

Hairyloon

Joined: 20 Nov 2008
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Location: Today I are mostly being in Yorkshire.

Posted: Fri Aug 08, 14 12:35 am Post subject:

dpack wrote:

the cut didnt seem to have a hinge or a gate

No, but the video was not of a high enough quality to be sure of that: I'm thinking it must've been there and we just can't see it.

What is to the right of the picture or behind the camera?
Presumably whatever it is prevents them from felling in those directions, so might also make it very tricky to dismantle.
A sound tree will nearly always go exactly where you point it, but it is not easy to point a tree so exactly. I wouldn't fancy it, but I'd certainly like to give the customer that option, provided he signs the disclaimer.

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
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Posted: Fri Aug 08, 14 7:57 am Post subject:

There is what looks like an electricity pole on the right, so I would suspect there is a power line across there.

Still not the sort of thing I would have anyone do near my house. I am not so sure about trees always going where you point them. Very few trees are dead straight all the way up with a completely even canopy, and it only takes a slight wind to send them off course as well. Conifers like that are easier than broadleaves, but you wouldn't believe the mess some of them can get themselves into even if they are not very tall.

Hairyloon

Joined: 20 Nov 2008
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Location: Today I are mostly being in Yorkshire.

Posted: Fri Aug 08, 14 10:04 am Post subject:

Mistress Rose wrote:

I am not so sure about trees always going where you point them.

I always inspect my hinge after a fell, especially if it did not go quite where I wanted it: most always the reason that it didn't is evidenced by the cut.

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Very few trees are dead straight all the way up with a completely even canopy, and it only takes a slight wind to send them off course as well.

A good hinge should steer it straight. Though as already observed: there is not much evidence of a hinge on the video.

Ty Gwyn

Joined: 22 Sep 2010
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Location: Lampeter

Posted: Fri Aug 08, 14 10:44 am Post subject:
The video quality was poor,first time i watched it ,it looked like the man was cutting from the direction of fall, It would naturally have a V cut in the direction of fall,and i would`nt be surprised if there was a rope from the tree to the tractor taking up tension.

onemanband

Joined: 26 Dec 2010
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Location: NCA90

Posted: Fri Aug 08, 14 11:00 am Post subject:

Pause vid at 1:14 / 1:15 looks like pivoting on a v cut to me.

Ty Gwyn wrote:

i would`nt be surprised if there was a rope from the tree to the tractor taking up tension.

I had wondered that, but not something I have experience of and wondered if that tractor is heavy enough to do that.

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
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Posted: Fri Aug 08, 14 11:16 am Post subject:

having had a few more views of the video

i cant see anything that looks like a hinge.
the way the trunk slipped off the butt makes me think there must have been a gate but it isnt visible as far as i can see.

or for that matter any hint of a tension rope .

watching the last stage it seems that the wedges were what tipped it over,perhaps it was leaning a bit in the right direction but as above centre of gravity issues even with a fairly strait tree can be a bit unpredictable.

Hairyloon

Joined: 20 Nov 2008
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Location: Today I are mostly being in Yorkshire.

Posted: Fri Aug 08, 14 2:12 pm Post subject:
Whatever way you look at it, it worked.

Jam Lady

Joined: 28 Dec 2006
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Location: New Jersey, USA

Posted: Fri Aug 08, 14 5:18 pm Post subject:

When Paul cuts trees he makes a felling notch, then makes a cut from the opposite side, higher up. He calls it a hinge.

Back in October 2010 a friend helped drop a tree too big for Paul to tackle. He used wedges, which really interested me as it was not a technique with which we were familiar.

This happened up in the wood lot, so no house to drop it on. None-the-less, it went just where it was wanted to fall.

Of course I made an entry for my web site, which you can see here: https://www.bellewood-gardens.com/2010/Making%20Firewood_2010-12.html

There are some pictures of firewood, the tree he took down, and cutting it up.

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