chuckwood
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Before and after pics always helps. Looking at it now, it seems you removed most of the already split part of the tree before making the back cut. I still believe if you had just went ahead and cut a notch on that side before the back cut, there wouldnt have been a barberchair,.
I agree. The wood about 3-4 feet above my hinge was cracked, busted junk, and so it just broke and peeled off. I should have notched it back maybe three or four inches into more solid wood. Part of my problem was lack of experience with extreme leaners, I knew that there was a *lot* of potential force in there just waiting to bust loose if I made a wrong move, and I was nervous about cutting a lot deeper into the face. In hindsight, I didn't need to be concerned, that wood in the face was all messed up anyway and wasn't doing anything to hold the tree. About all the wood I needed in the face was just barely enough to keep my bar from getting pinched. So much force above was pulling it in one direction that it was not going to be steered by a hinge anyway. An inch and a half or less of good wood would have been enough.