Tree cutting skills. Be careful who you learn or take advise from

[Normzilla]

Boulder Creek, in the Santa cruz Mountains, thems the little ones.

Awesome. Good friend of mine. Bob Fogel is from Boulder creek, lives in Redding now.

 

[redline4]

The township I'm in decided that the trees were too close to the road where my parents live.
Here's an example of a stump from the crew they hired...



Pretty sure this could be used as a "don't do this" example.

 

[Normzilla]

The township I'm in decided that the trees were too close to the road where my parents live.
Here's an example of a stump from the crew they hired...

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Pretty sure this could be used as a "don't do this" example.

Wow. Hope they are long gone, far away.

 

[Newdave]

Jacob Rogers and Jed Walters did a video a couple of years ago on the channel he had while he worked at Eastside Tree Works that was great.

Having watched this video several times, along with all the others with Jed Walters on their channel, I was shocked and saddened to hear of his passing. My thoughts and prayers go out to his family. It also reminds me just how dangerous trees can be as I start to clear the landing zone for the stand of dead fir trees I have to bring down in the coming weeks.

 

[Normzilla]

Having watched this video several times, along with all the others with Jed Walters on their channel, I was shocked and saddened to hear of his passing. My thoughts and prayers go out to his family. It also reminds me just how dangerous trees can be as I start to clear the landing zone for the stand of dead fir trees I have to bring down in the coming weeks.

I totally agree shirts are being sold to support his family if anyone is interested.

 

[Normzilla]

https://westcoastsaw.com/products/j...irt-sticker?customer_posted=true#contact_form. Shirts for Jed walters family.

 

[Loony661]

I totally agree shirts are being sold to support his family if anyone is interested.

Thanks! Good on them for continuing to support his family during this difficult time.

 

[Normzilla]

Going through old pictures tonight.

 

[Normzilla]

Road hazard, leaning out into traffic.

 

[Loony661]

Left a kickstand on my back cut, and I’m glad I did. Needed 1 wedge to pursued this tree in the direction I needed it to go..
The hinge looks back farther than normal, but it really wasn’t - I had to remove a large root flare from the front first. I performed my usual plunge cut here, with the exception of the slanted back cut. This works great if I’m ever in doubt that the crown weight isn’t quite right. If it settles back, it will sit there until I either place a coulle wedges, or bump it with the skidder. In this particular case, it started to settle back but never actually closed the gap. A few hits and it was over.

 

[davidwyby]

Road hazard, leaning out into traffic.

Good enough hinge wood to just face it sideways to lean?

 

[Normzilla]

Good enough hinge wood to just face it sideways to lean?

It was leaned pretty much close to my face. I just faced it uphill slightly, two hopefully center the road, which it ended up doing perfectly. Not worrying of damage or anything l, no utilities. Just would make it easier on us, otherwise it would have put limbs and part of a tip over barbeqire fence, just more of a mess for us. We planned on using the truck to drag it to a widespot up the road. Plan actually worked

 

[Normzilla]

Another view. And holding wood wise, very stout.

 

[Loony661]

Wanting to try something new, I performed a swinging dutchman - kinda.. I wanted to see if I nipped the side of my hinge, but then bore cut the hinge thickness instead of coming in from the back, if it would save out. It clearly did not. I wrecked a very nice butt log on this white oak trying. Almost 3 ft of heartwood pull.. Lesson learned. I also learned that when you bore cut after cutting through the end of the hinge like that, with the tree leaning that direction, you pinch the bar in a hurry, no warning. I had to self rescue with the backup saw If there’s a silver lining to this failure, it’s that the tree swung exactly where I wanted it to, and it missed the young white oak growing downhill from it.

 

[Normzilla]

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Wanting to try something new, I performed a swinging dutchman - kinda.. I wanted to see if I nipped the side of my hinge, but then bore cut the hinge thickness instead of coming in from the back, if it would save out. It clearly did not. I wrecked a very nice butt log on this white oak trying. Almost 3 ft of heartwood pull.. Lesson learned. I also learned that when you bore cut after cutting through the end of the hinge like that, with the tree leaning that direction, you pinch the bar in a hurry, no warning. I had to self rescue with the backup saw If there’s a silver lining to this failure, it’s that the tree swung exactly where I wanted it to, and it missed the young white oak growing downhill from it.

Good on you for posting it up though, definitely how others learn.

 

[davidwyby]

I thinking swinging is better on hingy western wood. ;-)

Then againJohn Adler loggerjohn on YT in NY has done it and you could probably pick his brain.

 

[Junk Meister]

Screw that saw Steve. They are easy to replace

You might make "THAT SAW" a wall hanger and put a few pictures with it to tell the story, Could possibly stick in a few memories and unknowingly save a life.

 

[afleetcommand]

Yup, I agree with the premise of this thread.... and certainly the right person to get advise from in my world is :
This place. Pretty much nothing related to cutting the west coast huge pines applies here. Two video's really made impact from that collection, the first is this one:

Their site for those who work in the area's I do:

https://www.youtube.com/@gameoflogging

 

[davidwyby]

I have a real hard leaning dead Euc to drop. Euc is brittle and doesn’t split easily…I wonder if it will chair.

 

[afleetcommand]

I have a real hard leaning dead Euc to drop. Euc is brittle and doesn’t split easily…I wonder if it will chair.

What I do know is you are analytical enough to build a plan to safely deal with that tree.