all good questions mate.
thinking back i think the reason i didnt cut that limb at the knuckle was for fear of the butt weight swinging the top of the tree straight into me as it went. tension wood is always hard to cut, and poplar is a funny wood at the best of times, it did nip my saw up twice as you said, second time the cut was pretty much through and was had wedged itself up, hence i went further down the limb and make a seperate cut at a safe distance. the end of the branch as you said, did stay in the other tree, at a safe distance from where i was working. that was retreived later with a throwline.
The poplar was WELL AND TRULY lodged against the beech tree and i assessed it was safe for me to climb.
The fell, was arguably a dangerous scenario for the faller but again was assessed and a plan drawn up. The tree was too heavly to pull out particularly as access to get the correct angles just wasnt possible. the following method was mutually agreed on.
We decided felling the beech in the direction the poplar was pushing it was definetly out due to the liklihood of the hinge breaking prematurely. To avoid this we felled the beech at a right angle to the direction of the lean. the tree was pulled by a cable on a 100hp john deer. This gave us the option of leaving a very thick hinge, giving the faller time to go clear. Here was our biggest concern, having done the back cut and walking away from it, if the tractor hadnt have been able to pull it no one would have wanted to go back in and cut more! Fortunately it went over kist as expected in a controlled manner. The whole job from start to finish was a dangerous undertaking and has undergone a lot of criticism, and in fairness probably rightly so. In short, i turned up to the job blind, assessed it, made a plan, and carried it out with the tools we had to hand. No one was hurt, tree was safely down in under an hour and we all got paid:greenchainsaw:
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