4 on the ground and thought I better stop while I was ahead.
Pucker factor off the charts
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I think if you Copy & Paste the pics instead of attaching them, they'll be visible.
Not hingeworthy.
To mimic Elaine from Seinfeld.
To mimic Elaine from Seinfeld.
Sheesh...I would've left 'em for the woodpeckers. Playing with fire with those trees.
Looks like being frozen may have been all that was keeping some of those together.
I would tentative suggest you need to work on your felling cuts, particularly not overcutting the notch or the back cut. As mentioned above, you're playing with fire with these trees... so best not to give em any more reason for things to "go sideways"
I would tentative suggest you need to work on your felling cuts, particularly not overcutting the notch or the back cut. As mentioned above, you're playing with fire with these trees... so best not to give em any more reason for things to "go sideways"
Good decision on stopping while you are ahead
Here it looks like you've taken the upper cut past the lower cut when making your notch... looking again I think the shadows are just making it look worse than it is.
In these you can see you've taken the back cut far closer to the notch (on one side particularly) & cut a lot more of the holding wood than should be necessary... especially on an already compromised tree. Based on the type of tree & condition of the wood a slightly larger notch may have been beneficial too.
I can't see anything resembling directional cuts here, or even tell where cutting started or finished... given it's state I think you were lucky this one came down without incident.
This statement is concerning on several levels... I hope you're not cutting alone out there
The first one with the 500 I was swinging so I often nip the high side off anyway. I left lots of holding wood on the far side.
Yes those two were nasty and I cut alone, wife was not impressed. I do appreciate your concern though.
I would not recommend anyone that doesn’t have a lot of experience felling danger trees to go anywhere near something like these two.
Yes those two were nasty and I cut alone, wife was not impressed. I do appreciate your concern though.
I would not recommend anyone that doesn’t have a lot of experience felling danger trees to go anywhere near something like these two.
A more standard cut and a nasty widow maker I’ll let the wind take care of.
I don’t think you’d like this big old beech JD.
