more remote tops coming down

Do you have more footage of that crane removal you had at the end of this clip? I would like to see the full video of that take down.
 
Daniel,
Off subject slightly, but you make a lot of logs...Do you pay to dispose of those? or do you have local sawyers on call who come get that stuff for you? It seems like with that skid steer around, a local sawmiller with a truck would be happy to haul off those logs, especially with ease of loading?
You ever throw a wedge in those remote tops just to make sure they don't go over backwards? I know there's a skid steer on the other end, but I would be nervous making those cuts then backing away for a spell waiting for everything to get set up and ready for the pull. Especially in something like white pine, with pretty brittle holding wood.
thanks for posting videos and taking up some time on these rainy days.
 
Just like every other cut, its important to practice and refine a technique on the ground before trying it in the air. Once you use it on the ground and see what it takes to pull a tree over, you learn what you can and can't trust in the air. So there is no way that top is going over backwards, or sideway... period... On back leaners I like to slightly pre-tension a pull line. On front leaners I want to see just a little slack in the line..
 
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So there is no way that top is going over backwards, or sideway... period...

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Oh Daniel!

You do this to entertain Stephy Zimmerman don't you?
 
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Never overlook the wind Dan. And that technique is probably the last you'd use in such conditions. Nice footage
 
Reg,
I have yet to put myself in a position where I could get hurt if the wind blew on those tops, and they went with on the hinge. Though that is mainly becasue I haven't needed to do so. The step cut is much stronger than one might think, depending on species and condition of wood fibers of course. One must get used to a new cut like this by putting it to use on the ground and figuring out its limitations and potential. I know of no other person that has been using this cut aloft or on the ground, though I'd be surprised if someone out there isn't dropping trees with it. It has a lot of benefits in that application.
 
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So there is no way that top is going over backwards, or sideway... period...

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Oh Daniel!

You do this to entertain Stephy Zimmerman don't you?

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In this case I agree with Daniel, Jim. Daniel has proven himself infallible, much like the Pope, or Dick Cheney.

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Reg,
I have yet to put myself in a position where I could get hurt if the wind blew on those tops, and they went with on the hinge. Though that is mainly becasue I haven't needed to do so.

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Thanks Dan, but as a contract climber that position can be often,its not always practical to come back another time.

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The step cut is much stronger than one might think, depending on species and condition of wood fibers of course. One must get used to a new cut like this by putting it to use on the ground and figuring out its limitations and potential. I know of no other person that has been using this cut aloft or on the ground, though I'd be surprised if someone out there isn't dropping trees with it. It has a lot of benefits in that application

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A conventional back-cut has always sufficed for me. I'll advance it slowly; when the wind picks up I'll hold off while there's plenty of holding wood still remaining; when it drops again I'll zip through it fast with the ground workers pulling simultaneously. The whole time I'm at the safest place, at the cut where any movement (the log) is only very slow which buys me precious seconds if the top did go the wrong way.

To be backing away in a bucket, at the wrong time, under the wrong conditions would leave you very vulnerable due to the speed and spread of the falling top.

Consider that you can break a step-cut with only your bare hands or a pry-bar, on even a short log. Comparatively speaking, an identically hinged short log would offer a far more stubborn resistance. So a step-cuts' holding-strength against a big sale in the wind, with your skid steer not even level with the cut, would not fair too well at all.

I can see that it works, but can’t recall a situation in the past where it would have been preferable. Maybe rigging a big top when using a remote tie-in from behind!
 
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Consider that you can break a step-cut with only your bare hands or a pry-bar, on even a short log. Comparatively speaking, an identically hinged short log would offer a far more stubborn resistance. So a step-cuts' holding-strength against a big sale in the wind, with your skid steer not even level with the cut, would not fair too well at all.


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Not sure if you understand the cut Reg..
the step cut is not just a snap cut. the hinge is set with a notch and plunged back cut. The step cut is made below the plunged back cut, leaving a snap cut in the backcut behind the hinge. You are not going to break that by hand, even with a high pull line. You NEED a lot of MA or machine to break it. The wind is not going to move that in anything of size, so long as the cut is made properly.
 
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Consider that you can break a step-cut with only your bare hands or a pry-bar, on even a short log. Comparatively speaking, an identically hinged short log would offer a far more stubborn resistance. So a step-cuts' holding-strength against a big sale in the wind, with your skid steer not even level with the cut, would not fair too well at all.


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Not sure if you understand the cut Reg..
the step cut is not just a snap cut. the hinge is set with a notch and plunged back cut. The step cut is made below the plunged back cut, leaving a snap cut in the backcut behind the hinge. You are not going to break that by hand, even with a high pull line. You NEED a lot of MA or machine to break it. The wind is not going to move that in anything of size, so long as the cut is made properly.

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I understood the cut perfectly Dan. A stong gust of wind can uproot a tree in its entirety or rip a top clean out. Cutting of any kind surely wont make the tree stronger.

I respectfully disagree with you on this one so wont be using the Technique. Thanks for the video all the same.
 
A good climber such as yourself might never encounter a situation where the cut is needed, or if not "needed" then at least effective in a risk-benefit analysis.

However, a fat old lazy tree cutter, with an undersized bucket,such as myself, is bound to come across some uses for it from time to time. :)

One day, I'll get a dyno and we'll have some better info to go by..

ps. did an estimate for a ex-pat Brit yesterday .... been raining for days here and again today.. made some joke about him being used to this kind of weather back home and he just smiled.. said something about summer being a strange thing to a Brit.
 
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However, a fat old lazy tree cutter, with an undersized bucket,such as myself, is bound to come across some uses for it from time to time. :)



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Hahahahah....I guess Ive got that to look forward to in the next decade or so. Perhaps then, I'd better leave the book open until I get there. Thanks again
 
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