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[10roadkill]

If I caught ant of my guys making cuts like that I'd hit them with saw.

 

[Gologit]

If I caught ant of my guys making cuts like that I'd hit them with saw.

What do you see as being wrong with it? Just curious.

 

[slowp]

If I caught ant of my guys making cuts like that I'd hit them with saw.

The guy who cut it did it on his own volition. He's one of the excellent former old growth experts still cutting--as a part time job in his case. He knows what he's doing. How would you get it down? Explosives?

 

[smokechase II]

Run like heaven

"I read somewhere that most felling accidents were within 15 ft of the tree. So seems to me that "running like hell" once the tree begins to fall is a good idea!"

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The C faller training the Forest Circus got started circa 1978 after a learning cutter cut off holding wood, ran like hell, didn't watch the tree and was killed 72 feet from the stump.

So may I make a correction and suggest a minimum of 75 feet, just to be safe?

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I honestly can't tell what the cuts were that SlowP has pictured.

John POllman is the best cutter/teacher combination I have ever been around.

 

[joesawer]

Smokechase, I agree, trying to out run a falling tree after things go wrong is a losers game. Kind of like Russian Roulette.

10roadkill-What cuts are you referring too? If you try to hit me with a saw, you better do it from behind and make it count.

 

[joesawer]

Even in the rare run like hell routine, 9 times out of 10 or more, still using the bore cut, cause its heavy topped hardwood, and the tree isn't starting to fall till your really in position to escape. No reason you couldn't bore any of those, but you don't need too cause they're still pretty straight up and down. Just different timber. but looks like good work!

On the first tree it would be a real trick to back up far enough to get a 50" bar started in a bore cut. Heck making a horizontal bore cut with a 50" bar is hard enough while standing on the ground. You need to get the bar in the kerf and the saw on the dawgs as soon as possible. Also Steve (the faller) was waiting for me to shift the weight forward with the wedges before he finished cutting it up. It is impossible to shift the weight with wedges while there is a back strap holding.
On the second tree, it was leaning out over the highway. The only access was the only way for the tree to go. I put a rope in the tree, then cut it up and let it lean back against the rope. Then I climbed out of the hole directly in front of the face cut, and had my helper pull it over when I was clear.
The ground was so steep that the tree shot back down the hill when it hit the ground and would have speared the road below if I had not tied off the pull rope in order to catch it.