Who would fell a tree with this cut?

[NDtreehugger]

 

[pacman]

Not my type of felling. I cut mine evem with the wedge.

 

[Nailsbeats]

Looks like a cut gone bad, I don't have a clue. I would do it though, lol.

You can get some weird looking stuff trying to cut yourself out of a bind or having the tree come back and then deciding to take it that way. I just can't put that piece of art work together, interesting.

 

[forestryworks]

damn, was somebody drunk?

 

[alderman]

What's the deal

Did they take two wedges out of this one?

 

[NDtreehugger]

Did they take two wedges out of this one?

Don't know I was asked to finish the job someone else started

 

[Ghillie]

You don't have the option "Not on purpose!" in the poll. :jawdrop:

Wow...

 

[husky362]

is it just me or is there a vertical bore cut

 

[KsWoodsMan]

Demented or misunderstood cutter, not sure which. Bet they had fun before they started sweating it and left.

Was the tree on the ground when you got to it or did you have to lay it down too ?

 

[turnkey4099]

Shucks, that looks like some of my work on one of my better days!



Harry K

 

[aandabooks]

Looks like they were trying to turn a tree against the lean or at least 90 degrees to it. Not sure if that second step is a bore cut to relieve the pressure of the heart wood.

I'm no expert faller and don't pretend to be. I'm just happy when one of my trees goes within a few feet of where I'm aiming. But I don't think I've ever made a stump that looks like that.

 

[tanker]

if I did,I'd cut it smooth so no one else could see it

 

[Mike Van]

Looks like they made another Bob Villa video! :jawdrop:

 

[LTREES]

Maybe JAMES was there?

 

[avalancher]

Looks like they made another Bob Villa video! :jawdrop:

Thats the first thing that I thought, ole Bob is going after big trees now. Maybe he bought a Wild Thing and thought he had a serious saw now.

 

[Caz]

Looks like maybe the tree came back and pinched his saw on the back cut, so he grabbed another saw and cut through the notch to fell the tree and free his saw :greenchainsaw: TAA DAA

 

[Wood Doctor]

"Not I," said the little red hen.

Glad I wasn't there to watch. It's pictures like this that make me say, "You drop the tree, after it's down, I'll help buck and clear."

 

[Billy_Bob]

That actually might be a very skilled felling cut designed to swing the tree a certain direction during the fall. (There is a felling cut called a "step dutchman".)

I would be interested to see the top part of the cut...


Edit: Actually that might be a double step dutchman (a term I just created looking at this picture). The tree would fall, hit the "step" on the right and go to the left (looking at the picture), then hit the high left part of the face cut on the left and swing back toward the right (looking a the picture). So the tree would swing around an obstacle when falling...

 

[strongback]

if I did,I'd cut it smooth so no one else could see it

+1 That's precisely what I was thinking. I wouldn't leave the evidence laying around for someone to post on AS!

It does look like it was done with a purpose so It's entirely possible that I'm just too ignorant to know at what I'm looking.

 

[treemandan]

Looks like a cut gone bad, I don't have a clue. I would do it though, lol.

You can get some weird looking stuff trying to cut yourself out of a bind or having the tree come back and then deciding to take it that way. I just can't put that piece of art work together, interesting.

Maybe a bad bore cut to start then the regular backcut cause it was time for lunch?