Trees you've cut

[TheDarkLordChinChin]

More ash trees. Cleaner ones this time

 

[singinwoodwackr]

Big, dead, ivy covered ash.
Noticing a pattern?


Right along a road outside a small town. Power line too.


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View from the field. Ten foot drop from the road.


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Very awkward to cut with it growing directly up out of the bank. But I managed.


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The butt sat up supported by the branches.



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We got a rope around it and pulled it down with the tractor.


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One ugly mutha

 

[TheDarkLordChinChin]

The sizwill worked really well in this one.
Im not sure what type of tree it is, maybe some kind of aspen. It was harder timber than poplar but not as hard as ash.





It was leaning hard away from the camera and leaning back too. I had to double stack wedges to move it.
My back cut was s bit high but it was hard to line up my cuts at all as the tree was a weird shape.


I re-watched guilty of treesons famous "how to fell a try video" again recently. What i took away from it this time is that theoretically a sizwill should work better with a humboldt.

Their thinking is that when the face closes the hinge would normally break off but when you use a sizwill it allows the hinge to keep working and peel off down into the stump.

It won't work as well in a conventional face cut as the face won't fully close before the hinge breaks unless you make an awful narrow face cut.


If you watch a conventional face cut closing you'll see how the hinge tends to snap off rather than pull fibres where as when a humboldt closes it forces the tree up off the stump thus forcing fibres to pull rather than break off. Obviously variables such as hinge thickness, timber quality, etc can affect how this works out.

Sizwills have worked for me with conventional face cuts but only with naturally hingey timber like spruce or willow. Its been hit or miss with more brittle timber like ash, beech or cedar.


Food for thought. I wish id taken more photos.

 

[davidwyby]

Exactly

Great post

I like it

 

[davidwyby]

 

[davidwyby]

 

[Maintenance Chief]

 

[SawAddictedFarmer]

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Locust?

 

[singinwoodwackr]

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Dats a lot o plywood

 

[TheDarkLordChinChin]

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Nice tidy work. Love to see a 3120, beast of a saw

 

[jacktheripper]

Nice tidy work. Love to see a 3120, beast of a saw

I think that’s a 394

 

[Maintenance Chief]

Locust?

Eastern cottonwood

 

[Maintenance Chief]

I think that’s a 394

Yes

 

[Maintenance Chief]

Dats a lot o plywood

Expensive bermuda sod, and sidewalk, plywood is cheaper,! Haha

 

[Maintenance Chief]

Nice tidy work. Love to see a 3120, beast of a saw

394xp , 32" husqvarna light bar.
I got lucky a few years ago and a junk man friend of mine sold it to me for 300.00$ .

 

[TheDarkLordChinChin]

Poplar

Or cottonwood as its know in the US.

They grow fast and straight.




We had a nice open field to fell them into.





Very soft and brittle. There's no strength in the timber.


This tree was back leaning and started to move forward before I had even this much cut. We were pulling with the chipper.





Thats a lot of hinge.

 

[davidwyby]

I think cottonwood is more branchy/forky?

 

[Maintenance Chief]

Poplar

Or cottonwood as its know in the US.

They grow fast and straight.

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We had a nice open field to fell them into.


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Very soft and brittle. There's no strength in the timber.


This tree was back leaning and started to move forward before I had even this much cut. We were pulling with the chipper.


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Thats a lot of hinge.


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I definitely stick too 30% on the face cut with the cottonwood species. I've found if I go too deep and then pound the snot out of the wedge it can break one side of the hinge, plus it's easier to tip over at 30.

 

[jacktheripper]

I’ve found our “cottonwood” to be extremely spongy and hinges well. Almost too well. Even when rotten in the middle, the side posts will hold on well. It will hang on by the last little bit and pull fibers when it drops. That heartwood looks completely unlike any cottonwood that I’ve seen. Are you sure it’s similar?

 

[singinwoodwackr]

I definitely stick too 30% on the face cut with the cottonwood species. I've found if I go too deep and then pound the snot out of the wedge it can break one side of the hinge, plus it's easier to tip over at 30.

I've had big ones form over and around a wedge as well as multiple wedges. Had to push the tree over with an excavator. Not fun.