Beech removal

stevebullman

stevebullman

nothing technical here, just a nice fun boshing out job

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http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ijajIUkMbBM&eurl=http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=5220
 
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cool. Beech trees look like alot of fun to climb. Awesome trees. I hope i get a chance to climb one before you guys cut em all down!

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Yeah nice video. Rocks and Trees you should come Providence in 09 we have some sweet beeches.
 
There is a fun side to bombing out large sections of the tree and there is a bad side to it... The clean up on the ground is a nightmare.
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Did you guys have to clean up or not?

Got a question about the placement of the notch. Why so low? I know it is practical not to cut higher for a second stump cut and for the sake of harvesting lumber. But, if your were harvesting lumber would you have used a Humboldt?

I typically cut mine higher than the buttress of the trunk. Simply because I hate cutting into the angled/compressed grain and the splash back of small grains of sand get into the bark of the tree after all those years, which makes the saw dull. It seems a lot faster, that's all.

Just curious. Not getting up in your grill or anything.
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good question. beech can get very brittle particularly when the wood is compromised. the best holding wood is always found in the buttress roots or "toes" as i reer to them as. i always fell low as possible on beech and utilize these toes, you can hold the tree on the hinge far better.....if you look at the end of the video when i panned the camera onto the bottom of the butt you will see where its held and tore the toe.

as for clean up, this was a "get it on the ground" job. the estate owner had sent a guy with a teleporter to literally just crush and push the runbbish out of the way.
 
Felling a Beech low is not always a good idea as I found out recently on a very brittle tree with a heavy lean, I should have cut higher leaving the buttress alone to support the tree as I cut.
 
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but didnt you cut the buttress roots off in the picture i saw carl?

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Well yeah, not all of them but enough to make it stupidly dangerous.
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