Two felling approaches demonstrated on video

[weimedog]

First one a large Oak, focus on getting as much of the money wood as possible. By someone who makes a living on maximizing how much of a money tree gets to the log sale.



From another school of thought, but get the tree on the ground safe

 

[weimedog]

HAD to drop this one, a place where ONLY a Humboldt makes sense. Can you imagine how tall a person would have to be to do a conventional on a tree on the hill side like this ?

 

[davidwyby]

Sure is hard to generate a good felling discussion anymore, ain't it Walt? :-/

 

[NSEric]

While im interested in all this stuff im not qualified to comment much on it, im a firewood guy who just has to get a tree on the ground without hurting myself.
I cut smallish wood on mostly flat ground for fire wood. I do conventual notches to keep the stumps low so I dont have to recut them after I fall the tree. The stumps need to be low to get the tractor and log loader over them. The wood is either skidded out or cut 8 foot for a log loader, any short block that gets cut off the stump because it's too high gets left in the woods.
If a tree is leaning the wrong way, I let it go that way and drag it out of the mess it fell onto with the tractor.

 

[weimedog]

My way, I should call it the "against the grain" directional felling