View attachment 208360
Yes sir. That’s what I tried to do. I’ve been successful w that before. Saw clearly wasn’t level I was rusty. First big tree I’ve cut since last winter.
Main thing is you cut around your sap wood 100% until it went to rot then broke. That's pro and that will keep you alive.
One of the safety rules under BC Fallers program is don't fall trees into standing timber (objects basically). If you break that rule as in 'overcoming a falling difficulty' then the step may jam the tree from coming back at you. Then you have 'looking up and egressing back far enough. (to name a few) So if you unintentionally brushed a tree badly then they want you to fall it immediatley. One rule just backs up another which backs up another... (most of this has been in industry forever)
So if you are falling to an opening then the tree will remain in forward motion so the step doesn't come into play as a safety feature under this circumstance.
Uneven back cut goes together with intact holding wood and working from the high side.
Again you rationalize if you have to but always know ALL of them through and through in an organized priority order. All three mentioned as important tequeques to being safe but angled back cut and cutting far side corner are unlikely to get you if you are on the high side and the tree is pulling down with no trees to fall into. The importance will change as the circumstance does. Generally the ones in the highest propriety are the ones everyone has the most control to correct, if we think about it?
In your situation then it just pure vanity.
You did the most important thing.
"Leveling" the saw is a muscle memory.
Cutting Timber is a muscle memory.
It's way more a feel than a 'visual'
I have a much better chance of falling a 6' tree on a steep mountain side blindfolded than most people on here would even know how to fall.
That's only because that kind of falling taught me how to tap into the different sences.
You come so far and then you come to realize it's your eye sight that is getting in your way.
I have often said, If I could learn more, it would be through a blind man.
If I'm cutting a 45" undercut with a 36" bar then I can not see exactly when the cuts will marry up as I would with smaller cuts. I can only feel it when I put the bar back in the top as to which one needs a little more. Sometimes I go back and forth a few times in a tense rigit stance to get the answer.
To finish the far 8 - 10" or whatever then
I just dog in and cut most down so it's somewhat even but yet a little high on the flat cut and run my tip down on a steady angle as a bumper that pushes up my left palms. Level out a few inches and then run your tip again until it pushes up on the next high spot. That kinda thing.
If you have been doing that kind of Falling for a while then I feel like I'm cheating if I'm in a situation where I can work the undercut from both sides. Just a personal little hang up that would go away quick.
Here's an up hill leaner That was fell through the intended hole to the right. I didn't notice the rot from a small undercut. Perfectly green with no heart rot conks. It had the split that heeled together but oxygen exchange prompts rot.
I cut from lookers veiw (hikers veiw)
I dogged in the back and then would have dogged in the mouth and pulled but as I was adjusting on the fly coming around the back when I realized what was going on. I just laid the pressure on until it started to fold and got outta Dodge.