Sooo, how do ya'll like this face cut?

Re: Sooo, how do ya\'ll like this face cut?

Lately I've been carrying a small felling bar for pine topping and it makes it easy to pitch a good sized top against the lean.

So, where's the video of the 150' fir?
 
Re: Sooo, how do ya\'ll like this face cut?

Felling bar is a great tool, I need one. Dave Stice has a nice, compact one.

I had some video, I think, but had a hard drive crash with no backup...haven't sent it in yet for possible data recovery....to the tune of $500-1200....aarrggh.

There's this little number, though, from a few years back....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAKzvBULY1I

She was 146 feet tall and we fit 'er thru an 11 foot space...after limbing it to 86 feet.
 
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i like MB's explanation of "undermining the Center of Gravity"

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MB came up with dat! Man, he been reading some thesaurus or someting since his accident, good ol MB.

Anyhows, dats what it looks like to me, I remember back in day trying get a climber to use this technique on short fat sections of a wide diam spar, he was having great problems trying to push the sections off, hinge too big, notch too small, he didn't want to rope them, I shouts up, "Undermine da centre of gravity buddy", he got it.

Good one ROG.
 
Re: Sooo, how do ya\'ll like this face cut?

looks like a story of a new development being placed in a picturesque forest. Is the subdivision by chance called Hemlock Hills? With construction damage and wind exposure, the once forest starts falling in on itself.
 
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A loss in trade here is side to side control; as the hinge is now not at the widest part of the tree; but travels a narrower breadth across spar i think.

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No. If the tree diameter is a perfect circle the length of the hinge on a notch that is 1/3 the diameter of the tree (the often 'recommnded' depth of the notch) will be the same as the length of a hinge on a notch that is 2/3 the diameter of the tree.
 
Re: Sooo, how do ya\'ll like this face cut?

As well on a typical healthy tree you'll have more sapwood in the hinge if the apex of the face isn't as deep. And we all know sapwood is more tenacious than heartwood.
 
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