No general rules apply to this tree

[smokechase II]

Here is a tree where your general rules may not apply.

Dead and leaning strongly in the direction of the lay.
Impressive amount of rot on the back side. There was apparently just enough good wood along the sides to keep it up.

A 33% in face was not workable. It would have collapsed and pinched the bar. {If you included all the rotten wood one could have stretched the story to say the face was in 1/3rd.}

A high open face had no relevance. It was gonna go where it was gonna go and the hinge might have held through 50 degrees if that because of its the dead dry nature.

If you are a plunge cutter on every tree you might want to have that second saw handy when the first gets pinched or involved in a crushing event.

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A very small face was cut carefully in segments.
Back-cut from the rear.

 

[Nailsbeats]

Couldn't you put your backcut in, start a wedge, then notch it to set up the hinge........lololol.

Musta hadta get in quick and get outta dodge. Nice.

 

[joesawer]

Nice work, those trees can keep your day from being boring.

Last year I discussed falling this tree with the FS.
It is leaning towards a water course, to the left and away from the camera, and needs to be fell towards and slightly to the left of the camera.
If they decide to take it down it will be fun.

 

[056kid]

How big was the leaner?

 

[smokechase II]

Oblong

About 22" across the wider part, as I recall.

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Joe:

That tree might stand till the next windstorm or for 80 years.

 

[hammerlogging]

True true, not plunge EVERY tree. Challenges, creativity, adapting to change, the challenges of cutting, as life, no? Good work to get em on the ground one way or another.