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The only standing tree of the job. Another big dead ash. Note how the next tree to the right looks a bit better and the next one again looks pretty good It fell nicely for such an ignorant dead tree. A stem had tore out of it few years back. The wound was where I had to put my face cut...

Back to storm damage today. Cut up a few fallen bog birche trees. The land owner brought his trailer to fill with chip. He's going to use it to bed cattle. This was the biggest. Fair bit of weight to it for it to not start lifting up when we cut most of the limbs off. Peeled...

Some conifers from today. No wind today, made for a nice change. Stripped this spruce of its branches, took the top out and 1 section of the trunk then felled the rest. Look how it pushed the logs we laid out into the ground. Very soft ground, I think it had been resurfaced and never...

I think the two main causes of barber chair are dull chains and stopping cutting when the tree starts to move. If your chain is dull you can't keep up with what the tree is doing. I barber chaired a small willow a few years back. My saw was dull, the tree started to fall and I couldn't cut fast...

It will chair if it's tall, straight, has no lower branches and the grain is straight. Often see branches splitting when cut but the main stem is unlikely to chair if its all gnarly and forks out fairly close to the ground. Spruce often tries to chair because it's tall, straight and has a long...

Yeah your hardwoods all look taller and straighter. Most of ours are shorter and with a bigger spread. Pics related.

Very rarely see barber chairs here. I think our trees are too twisty and full of knots. The grain is not long or straight enough. With that in mind all the trees I have seen barber chair were tall, straight and with lots of top weight and now lower branches. This was such a tree. Ash.

Maybe. I agree with @Woodpecker though, the variable nature of timber throws lots of curveballs. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Tree still landed where I expected, which was also where I wanted it.

Same job. This big ash was hollow. I got a bit of a shock boring into nothing. Ivy growing up though the cavity. Look at the slugs and mushrooms etc. Pretty cool. The next tree right beside it was sound, apart from dieback. We then cut a low hanging limb off this healthy...

Heavy leaning dead ash. Still went sideways But moved forward enough to clear a ruined shed the land owner wanted to rebuild. I would have liked to get the rope higher but didn't trust the timber not to snap with it being so dead. I also had to cut the tree high to avoid hitting wire...

Never really used metric system. Growing up everything was miles, stone, pounds, inches. Metric only really became a thing here in the 2000s. Don't hear many people younger than 20 using older measurements. It's funny. All older tradesmen use imperial measurements but everything is supplied in...

It's fun and scary dealing with trees like that. This was a beech we did a while back

Yeah the deutz is an animal. It's very heavy and always had traction. It's getting a full rebuild soon. Most old ash trees have that heartwood pattern here. That tree had 175 growth rings by my count.

Big decayed ash this morning. Bad case of ash die back. Right beside a main road. Got the pull rope into the tree yesterday evening and felled it this morning at 0600 before any traffic was on the road. 394xp made mince meat of it. Used this old deutz 120 to pull it. Serious bit of...

Finally got my hands on an old model ms400. I'd been wanting to get one for a while now before they can't be got. €1150