Notch and Drop

allmark

allmark

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This is a couple of trees I dropped a month ago. 90' tall
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Q3P_OWcM2o
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I prefer a tad narrower of a notch, myself!
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In this case I'm rather glad that Mark disallows HTML markup in the posts. The directives given above would embed the movie within this very page had they succeeded.

Allmark, you don't need to copy that stuff here. Just the web address of youtube's page is sufficient.
 
Those notches don't look very deep maybe its just the angle of the vid. Looks like it worked perfectly though. I usually follow the one third rule used by Dent in his book.
 
Pretty brushy...they look like spruce. Not worth much out here, but I'd still get every bit of log possible, so ALAP them and use 30 degree Humboldts as our log buyers prefer squared ends...30 degrees is plenty open, the tree is committed to the lay by then...and maybe bore out some of the center hinge wood to reduce fiber pull....
 
Yeah, 2 camera angles, I liked that.

Nice work, notches are OK unless you were using the wood for milling, I suppose you'd have to do one of those upsidedown jobbies ... humbolt notch.

Good video, how did you get the rope up the tree?
 
Wood went to scrap.Too many nots to make lumber. I used a throwllineto put rope in....If you noticed there was 1 still in the first tree....first shot got stuck /forum/images/graemlins/bigcry.gif.
 
Ha yeah, looks funny when there's a few stuck, like ya flying a massive kite.

So you do the ole shoot thru the canopy and pull the rope thru and tie it to the trunk just above where you are cutting trick hey?

I do too on busy branched trees, but there's this long debate about ....

... is it the same as tying of at the top? You know, vectors and stuff. Well from personal experience, it's the same providing the branch it's over is close to the trunk and you aren't doing a huge rotational pull. I used to argue the other way around a few years ago but i cant prove chit.
 
Reminds me of last winter when Ian got not one but two throw lines stuck and a third tangled. This was the real soft 1.75mm Plasma line which I had bought 1000 feet of...it tangles even worse than ZingIt. It took ages to detangle them. I sent one of them home with him to do on his own time....

Mark, last year we did three large white pine, which scaled out to close to 6000 bf. They had many oversize knots, and we were docked about $900 on scale. Normal size knots are normally no deduction on pine which only has one sort, which paid $400mbf for years till it recently dropped to $350.
 
Pine here is only 300per 1000bf tops and that was spruce.
They were taken down due to lightening protection company recc. and price to install the protection.
 
At 2:25 point it looked like the stump started splitting as the trunk went over...am I seeing that right?

Good video...that saw really chews through some wood.
 
More apt to be tearing because the stump wasn't nipped below the hinge which is more important when you are up in the top of the tree.
 

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Good picture extract on that stump tear...gotcha, on the tear...kerf cut would have prevented that but it's no biggie on the ground stump.

Thanks.
 
If I were in the tree or selling the wood I would have nipped the hunge corners. Yeh that loader is much nicer than mine but he comes inhandy when I have alot to pick up.
 
The wood can pull because the notch closes prior to the hinge breaking and/or the hinge is a little too thick, no biggie unless it happens to be a veneer tree.
This one may have been from making the back cut a little too slow.
Boring the hinge will also prevent too much internal fiber pull.
 

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