Tree Felling with Rope?

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I am a newbie to falling, but I have always used a standard come along with a wire cable and attach that to the rope in the tree. Is a rope puller somehow better of safer than my come along with wire cable method? Thanks
with Maasdam kit came with 300 ft of 3 strand rope
 
I did a tree job a few years ago using the Maasdam pow'r puller for a tree that not only was leaning towards the building but, not only was I afraid that the tree was hollow from a crack (turns out it was) but the gas meter was on the same side of the building that the tree was nearby.
 
so I put a ratchet strap around the tree to keep it from splitting then I chained the butt end of log to a tree, so it would stop log from going down the bank and hitting gas meter. put face cut in the direction I wanted to fell it, bore cut, set wedges back cut, then pulled it over😀
 
so I put a ratchet strap around the tree to keep it from splitting then I chained the butt end of log to a tree, so it would stop log from going down the bank and hitting gas meter. put face cut in the direction I wanted to fell it, bore cut, set wedges back cut, then pulled it over😀
Nice placement of offset block. Rather dynamic drop, all things considered.
I've chained a few hollow trees and used wedges to tighten the slack.

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so I got my Maasdam rope puller kit from treestuff (with 200 ft of 1/2" 3 strand).

I first tried to pull a tree that I had cut previously that was hanging. I was pulling the bottom of it.

I had the same exact issue as this guy:


the rope would slip unless I was constantly pulling the tail rope with one hand.

not sure if this is a function of that specific application? I guess the pulling from the bottom makes a tree bounce a bunch more? or maybe the rope has to break in a little bit?

either way I'll be using a progress capture pulley from now on for sure.

other than that everything worked great.
 
yeah it must be just this specific function / application then. I got the exact right rope (bought an entire kit).

probably when pulling a hung tree from the bottom when you pull out the tension then pull a little more then stop (even just between cranks), the tree bottom swings and releases tension. I guess if you're pulling a fixed tree, it won't bounce around like that.

if I just keep a hand on the tail end and keep a little bit of tension, it worked fine.
 
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