The difference between logging and Suburban Tree Work

as soon as we start to pull, the front compression half of the hinge starts to break the rear.
Why would you ever say that? That's just not realistic... nowhere near it...wood fibers have elasticity... and depending on how the cut is made, you can get more than enough movement out of the hinge before failure.

Not sure how many side leaners and how much lean you've been dealing with, but I've been making a living for 20 years bidding trees that would have to be rigged or crane out by anyone else around here.
 
Gutted a hinge on a spar today, with a cut I invented.

It’s top secret so don’t share widely. Conventional face/back cut on a backleaner. Cut it to a thin hinge and wedged it over center. There wasn’t enough room in the back cut with the wedge and I was too lazy to walk back to the truck for an hour xtra wedge for stacking. Could have probably pushed it over but lazy still.
So I gutted the hinge from the face cut with the nose of the saw.
Wowwe folks are will be singing my praises for decades to come.

I call it a ‘don’t give a f-cut’ or DG/FC for those who like acronyms
I just invented a new cut of my own this week!1000002591.jpg1000002592.jpg
I call it the small pecker, for reasons that I think are obvious. This tree had a lean about 90⁰ away from the desired lean, but it wasn't horrible. The homeowner is a friend, and he knows his way around a saw, but the tree, which was dead, wanted to fall across the septic leach lines, so he called in a favor.
 
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I call it the small pecker, for reasons that I think are obvious. This tree had a lean about 90⁰ away from the desired lean, but it wasn't horrible. The homeowner is a friend, and he knows his way around a saw, but the tree, which was dead, wanted to fall across the septic leach lines, so he called in a favor.

Nice butt kicker, and you even missed the inspection port
 
Looks like you put in a small snipe.. ??? and that the snipe didn't do anything. would you like to share the details???
I told you, it's called the little pecker. You'll have to look closer to find the little pecker.
 
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Looks like you put in a small snipe.. ??? and that the snipe didn't do anything. would you like to share the details???
Another use for a snipe is to get the log to roll after the hinge breaks, if there is risk of it getting hung up or minimize brushing other trees.
But I agree, the compressed bark as it left the stump.
 
Another use for a snipe is to get the log to roll after the hinge breaks, if there is risk of it getting hung up or minimize brushing other trees.
Bingo! That's why I did it, and it did what I wanted, but that's not the little pecker. I was hoping Daniel would find it.
 
Another use for a snipe is to get the log to roll after the hinge breaks, if there is risk of it getting hung up
Nice.... i finally learned something on this forum... it's been a while... and it's been a long time since I dropped a tree in the woods, so unlikely that I'll use that information anytime soon. Still nice to have those tools in the box
 
Nice.... i finally learned something on this forum... it's been a while... and it's been a long time since I dropped a tree in the woods, so unlikely that I'll use that information anytime soon. Still nice to have those tools in the box
This was only 50' from the house, but we do live in the woods. The point here is that out west, we really blend logging and suburban tree work a lot. In your videos it looks like a lot of your area is rural enough to call it the woods, but of course, with different species and growth habits. I'll bet anything you'll see an opportunity to test the principle soon now that it's in your head.
 
This was only 50' from the house, but we do live in the woods. The point here is that out west, we really blend logging and suburban tree work a lot. In your videos it looks like a lot of your area is rural enough to call it the woods, but of course, with different species and growth habits. I'll bet anything you'll see an opportunity to test the principle soon now that it's in your head.
Residential and suburban are different things.
 
Not sure if I posted this vid here before. If I have I apologize for wasting 2.5 minutes that you will never get back.

That's pretty interesting, because I heard somewhere around here that nobody could push over a piece that big and heavy without at least a 10k lb loader.
 
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a lot. In your videos it looks like a lot of your area is rural enough to call it the woods,
Only 1 that I can think of..
It's all Suburban here...
One of the biggest properties that I worked on is 6 acres... all manicured... probably 4 million dollar property..

Still it's a nice trick...

Maybe use it someday
 

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