That's not my impression. But can't say for sure. First of all we need to define our vocabulary. Doug Dent has a pretty wide range of cuts he called swing Dutchmans in the book on timber falling. He later stopped teaching those cuts because he found them too unreliable to teach... however...
this oner started to BC because of how much force I had on the pull line. I was counting on the pretension alone to get the tree moving without moving the puill vehicle. COunting on a the length of the pull line and the dynamic stretch... nmotice that just a little hesitation in the back cut...
The tree definitely came down shorter and MORE IMPORTANTLY.... much softer. When you drop dead ash like that with standard falling cuts, they explode into a million pieces... makes it much harder to pick each one and get them into the chipper.. Most of the smaller limbs sayed intact after impact..
On that little stem? With no top? If you don't want to call it bad, how about impractical, or inefficient, or sub-optimal?
. or how about just stupid... when 2 or 3 wraps and a timber hitch using any old piece of short line could been just as effective.
I think that the benefits of doubling...
One of the guys on a crew I worked with 5 or 6 times got killed when the neighbors tree let go at the roots and came across the property line and hit him from behind in the driveway. There had been some wind gusts the night before.. big tulip covered in ivy... would have been tough to spot.
So you think hiking a chain up that tree and tightening it with wedges was a good idea?
I appreciate the info on alder fibers, but it's just not that hard... it can't be...
especially those that have read up and studied the subject for hundereds of hours... The studies on the covd vaxx causing cancer are there. And all childhood vaxxines say on the package insert that the potential carcinogenic effects of this vaxxine has not been studied. With the mRNA covid...