Rico.. this one's for you

[Daniel]

This tulip was struck by a large ash and uprooted, listing maybe 10-15º, leaning up into another large tulip... Bucket is 75' rear mount elevator and parked at the end of the driveway, maybe 20' from the standing tulip. The leaner was tall enough to get the house, if it went that was, but the way it was propped up, that wasn't likely. But the tree was still too tall to cut from the bucket, so I used two vertical snap cuts to drop the tree down around 15", which was just enough. Cuts were made with chainsaw only, no wedges or ropes...

 

[Treetopflyer]

Im not rico but what the hell ..So your telling me you didn't even bother to set a bull rope in that tree to keep it from going away from the snag before you started cutting ops? You must not have had any targets around worth worrying about? Let's just say for fun when you slashed down that sum beach and it didn't spear in the ground and just for example hit a root mass and didn't do what you thought it would do what the hell could've happened? I'm sure someone with your experience would have covered the bases of what could've happened and planned for it, and obviously it's a big heavy tree that you'll assume will do your bidding based on your experience. That shit just looks shady to me , based on this small view you've shown. to then say your gonna pull ypur truck up next to it and start changing its physics while working on it without a bull rope or three supporting it shows complacency to me. Maybe I'm off base , hard to say with a limited scope shown, but just what I see in this one minute. Your stihl poweredness!

 

[Daniel]

All good bro... always tough to tell what's going on from video, especially when it was more of an afterthought... I thought it was explained fairly well above.. here goes again... the way the leaner was locked into the standing tree, no way it was going towards the house.. after it dropped and was more unstable without the root ball attached, still no way it was going to the house, but I was concerned that it might get the bucket when it was up, I wasn't in the bucket as I had just had hernia surgery... Taking off everything from the bucket's side of the tree first, left it locked in behind the tulip on the side away from the bucket.. it was in a wild area just off the driveway so no worries about understory plants or fixtures. I was more concerned with scraping bark from the standing tulip at pressure points as the leaner dropped, but made the call to allow that to be... I looked the tree over real well and was 100% on the safety concerns you mentioned

 

[rico]

The old slice cut. A valuable tool for clearing hung-up trees.

 

[Daniel]

My favorite... using only gravity and a chainsaw.. Many Europeans insist on using a trifor puller... Gravity is already pulling so why not use it!

 

[Tony]

My favorite... using only gravity and a chainsaw.. Many Europeans insist on using a trifor puller... Gravity is already pulling so why not use it!

You could cut to pull perpendicular to gravity and manage it.

Tony

 

[Daniel]

Why would I when I can manage it with only a chainsaw?

 

[Tony]

Less Cuts. Rope placement can initiate roll. Better cutting position. Staying clear as tree moves to name 4 reasons. Sometimes moving the butt sideways is preferable and it is always more predictable.

 

[Daniel]

I didn't want this tree to roll. Rolling would have been a problem. I needed this tree to stay leaning into the other tree until it was short enough to drop the stick. That required taking another 30' or so off as I recall. All that was to be done from the bucket. Given the mass of that tree, it would have taken a huge amount of force to roll. Setting that up in the woods would have been a lot more trouble than walking up to the tree, making a couple of cuts and having it where we needed to be.. And there is nothing more predictable than gravity.