Tree Felling

[hillbilly]

              I used to have one ofthem step side chevys when I was in school. Darn thing never would qite haul a big enough load of wood.
                        About  a year or so back a logger of probably  30 years or better was seriously injured while he was cutting a rather large WO, there was a grape vine that ran around the opposite side of the tree from him and then under the leaves on the ground to another tree behind him, when he fell the tree the grape vine caught him across the back and threw him under the tree as it was falling ,still alive but he sure can't do much.

[rebocardo]

Yea, vines are pretty dangerous and I could see that happening.

They are like 1/4 steel cable in strength. What I hate is cutting through them and the kickback. A vine covered tree can dull a saw just in one felling.

I have had trees so rotted the only thing holding the tree up was the vines around the trunk and in the branches.

[RSteiner]

Two weeks ago a friend of mine had just that type of tree, it was a white pine with two stems leaning in opposite directions.  The tree was about 120 feet tall and dead.  One stem was 36 inches diameter and the other was 30 inches across.

The smaller stem went first.  First the notch cut, second a vertical cut from the marriage point of the two stems down to the horizontal point of the back cut.  The back cut was a plunge cut started at the hindge and worked back on each side.  The last of the back cut was made from the escape route side of the tree and the stem went over.

The second and larger stem was cut in the same manner except that the back cut was made from the hindge point to just a couple of inches of the backside of the tree.  The back cut was finished from the outside.

I most always use a plunge cut to counter any chance of a barber chair.  I had a barber chair happen once before I knew about plunge cutting and boy that was scarry, only by the grace of God did I escape being hit in the head.

Randy

[rebocardo]

That is interesting!

I had wondered about that kind of tree. Someone wanted to know if I wanted to cut an unusual pine tree. It looks like a big Y.

The first thirty feet is straight trunk and then it splits into a Y with two huge trunks. I have never seen this on a pine tree. I declined, I know my limits. All I could see is the tree splitting before hitting the ground and hitting a house or something.

What is it called when a pine tree does this?

[Kevin]

A double .