Felling compilation video.

thanks Steve,

I call it the diamond pull.

It was a double trunk Tulip Tree, the v-crotch was splitting and each half was trying to uproot and fall.

the homeowner put on a small chain and binder during the rest of the windstorm which likely keep it upright.

During my estimate during the end of the wind storm, the ground and roots would surge up and down with the wind. I put on a bigger chain and binder.

Anyway, the one trunk was easy to fell, (already down in the short video clip) but I worried about the loss of opposing weight might cause the other to uproot and fall toward the house. not much of a chance with the binder in place still, but possible.

so I think we put ropes on the tree before felling the one easy side.

on heavy leaners that are also a brittle specie, I like to do a diamond pull like this, or at least a triangle pull.

If a heavy leaner is going to have to hinge a long way before it gets to vertical, there is more of a chance of the hinge-wood failing and the tree falling to the side IF you only use one direct rope pulling it. When you use a triangle pull, the hinge wood is more stabilized and kept from falling to the side (in my experience).

IF you go into a diamond shape, then BOTH ropes can attach to what ever is pulling and therefor the pulling tension is the same on each line (if you initially tie them at the same tension).

This is my opinion; all through experience with pulling nasty trees and is just my opinion. I do not know of anyone teaching it. I have never had a sketchy tree go wrong when using two pulling ropes in a triangle or diamond shape pull. I really think it adds stability to the hinge wood.

If any parts of this video are especially interesting to the viewers, I can easily create a short video of that one particular job.

The fell and fold oak where groundman runs from the GRCS should probably be shown in it's own short video. I commented about it on Lawrence Schultz comment under the video. Each limb was pre-notched and cut so they folded up and not puncture the geo thermal lines under the ground, but we needed those limbs to help with the weight balancing of the tree.
 
Very nice! Although I cringed at that first dead tree exploding on impact just thinking about how fun those are to clean up!
 
that was a fell and leave as is
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I can't stand having to make another cut to get the stump lower after the felling cut.

I definitely cut high when it does not matter, or to get away from decay or something else (barbed wire in that first tree) or to shorten the length of fall.

but unfortunately my co-workers never seem to grasp cutting low the first time so we don't have to cut again and dispose of that stupid chunk of wood!
 
that's why I started using the big step in falling, to get the hinge above the squirrely wood in the trunk flare, while leaving only half a round to handle..

Someday I'll turn you all on to notchless falling.. lots of fun! easy to keep the cut way low too!
 
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I can't stand having to make another cut to get the stump lower after the felling cut.

I definitely cut high when it does not matter, or to get away from decay or something else (barbed wire in that first tree) or to shorten the length of fall.

but unfortunately my co-workers never seem to grasp cutting low the first time so we don't have to cut again and dispose of that stupid chunk of wood!

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X2 waste of time, more sawdust to rake up and trying to get a choker onto a stupid chunk blows. Added bonus, you can normally get way more hinge wood because of the root flare.
 
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Added bonus, you can normally get way more hinge wood because of the root flare.

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Not trustworthy hinge wood though... I used to think the same thing many years ago... studying the fibers in the hinge after the fall will generally lead to the understanding that hinge wood in the folded grain of trunk flare cannot be trusted as well as the straight grain wood above the flare.. If its a tight or tricky fall I much prefer the hinge kept above the flare.. Seen it go bad a couple times... doesn't take much to open the eyes...
 
boreality, treehumper and macswan, thank you very much guys. It's a shame the older camera footage looks so crappy compared to the new HD stuff. I mixed in low quality video clips, too bad it couldn't be all in HD 1080.

boreality, I sent you a PM to write me at my email maybe 4 days ago. Please write my email address. I don't know yours.
 
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