Recent content by TheDarkLordChinChin

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

Took down this big ugly cypress tree if some description last week. Someone said it could be an oversize Italian cypress, any ideas? Anyway, 394xp got to stretch its legs a bit. We moved all the timber into a little garden shed for them. There's not much room left in there now.

What mac is that? Love those old saws

Or plant the garden full of fancy ornamental sh1te