?? Humboldt Notch ?? Does anyone know how to make this?

[andosca]

a joke???????????

 

[tree md]

what do you call the notch made in the rear, ive seen some pics, it appears it's used to drop a tree on a house?

I would call that the oh $4!+ notch.

 

[andosca]

how about the $10k notch, gives it kind of a positive spin if you don't know the $10k is what it's going to cost to fix your roof.

 

[randyg]

whats a humboldt with a large kind of square taken out at the back of the face all about?? seen a few pics on large red woods being felled like this...
here in the uk all are felling is pretty much done using a conventional face or harvester!

If you see this square in the hinge wood on the stump, could be center of tree bored out by reaching through face cut so don't need as long of bar to cut tree?

 

[matty f]

that's the block out style humboldt.

used on old growth redwoods.

face is a gap (big) instead of in a pinch.

Thats what ive seen, it always apears on old growth red wood felling pics ive seen.
Just wondering what purpose it serves.

 

[forestryworks]

true old growth redwood is brittle wood, so the gap in the face increases the hinge wood vertically and gives you more control at the stump.