Joe Kuhn
Hobby Repairman
Fell my first tree the other day. Listed it in the homeowner's section.
Today the Township was doing their yearly cull, so I watched with interest as they took down a tree right outside my house.
The guy in the basket would make a short cut on the fall side of the bigger branches, then cut from the other side downward towards where he wanted it to fall. Most times he would finish the fall with a push from his hand. He did that over and over again. He would carefully wait for the crew to pull branches away to chip 'em up. Everybody was aware and watching out for each other.
When he did the trunk in the picture, he didn't do a notch at all. He cut from the South side of the tree (left in pic) and when he had gone far enough they put two wedges in his cut opposite the fall. Hammered them in good and then finished the cut. Right at the end 2 guys pushed on the trunk from the South side. This trunk didn't fall to the North. It fell to the East, probably because of the branch stubs on that side. Oops. Nobody was hurt. It fell towards the guy with the yellow vest, but he and the truck had been moved by then.
No wedge cuts all day.
Here he is finishing one of his bigger branch cuts on a different tree.
The crew would tie a line around the biggest pieces, drag them over to the chipper and up and in, sometimes reconnecting the far end of the log and pulling it the rest of the way in.
Here he is dropping that last big piece. Right after I stopped taping, the one guy pushed on the trunk and it fell towards the street. Again, notice the angle of the cut towards the fall.
The method seems to work for these guys. Thoughts?
Today the Township was doing their yearly cull, so I watched with interest as they took down a tree right outside my house.
The guy in the basket would make a short cut on the fall side of the bigger branches, then cut from the other side downward towards where he wanted it to fall. Most times he would finish the fall with a push from his hand. He did that over and over again. He would carefully wait for the crew to pull branches away to chip 'em up. Everybody was aware and watching out for each other.
When he did the trunk in the picture, he didn't do a notch at all. He cut from the South side of the tree (left in pic) and when he had gone far enough they put two wedges in his cut opposite the fall. Hammered them in good and then finished the cut. Right at the end 2 guys pushed on the trunk from the South side. This trunk didn't fall to the North. It fell to the East, probably because of the branch stubs on that side. Oops. Nobody was hurt. It fell towards the guy with the yellow vest, but he and the truck had been moved by then.
No wedge cuts all day.
Here he is finishing one of his bigger branch cuts on a different tree.
The crew would tie a line around the biggest pieces, drag them over to the chipper and up and in, sometimes reconnecting the far end of the log and pulling it the rest of the way in.
Here he is dropping that last big piece. Right after I stopped taping, the one guy pushed on the trunk and it fell towards the street. Again, notice the angle of the cut towards the fall.
The method seems to work for these guys. Thoughts?