So if the camera is looking at the tree from 12 o'clock, I want the lay at 10:45... If I can get enough movement on the tree and early separation, I think I can get this but to jump 4-6 feet out from the trunk before it reaches the level of the deck... depending on how high the cut is and how fast the tree gets moving early ( I think the more mass the slower the movement gets started).... 6 feet would likely clear the deck.. 4 feet may not, and of course if the tree starts slow and doesn't build enough momentum to jump even the four feet, then I'll need to throw something else in my favor...
SO I was hoping to get the tree to spin on the way down... I've seen it done in one of my throwing tops videos.... unintended.. to where the trunk spun 180 degrees before hitting the ground, so the notch was pointed up... I've given it some thought and have a couple ideas, but not sure exactly what caused the tree to spin... I've thought about working on the technique so that an offending side limb could be spun away from an obstacle, but that's not what is needed here...
I was thinking could we spin the trunk by having the house side of the hinge let go early, while the far side holds on, and combine that with an side angled snipe, to get the but to slide and rotate left ... I wonder if that could spin the trunk causing it to move left ... the more I think about it, getting a tree with that wide a canopy to spin even a quarter revolution would be asking a lot ...
Probably have to add some other effect to insure the sideways movement... And if I can get enough sideways movement of the but to get it to slide or float down the hill, past the septic tank, I can probably just leave it down in the woods...
Sometimes after thinking this stuff through it just makes no sense and better to rig or remove the deck as suggested.. However the exotic cuts and rigging make better video..
