perhaps i worded my question wrong. i wasnt nescessarily looking for the right way to do it, i cut it a different way than i wanted because, i was working for free for my wifes dad, and he wanted me to just chop it off. my question was for future refrence is there ever a good way to goon cut a larger limb if theres nothing you need to worry about hitting. or is it always a no no.
i have to wonder where we would all be if none of us ever did anything we had to ask about.:bang:
There seem to be a glut of people lately not "necessarily looking for the right way to do it".
I also don't understand at all why someone would do something the way someone else told them to, instead of how they knew they should, just because it's a freebie job. It's your saftey and reputation. Do it right the first time, you only get one chance.
So what do you want to hear blacker? That what you did was the best way, and it couldn't have gone better?
The procedure geofore explained to you would have kept GRAVITY from exerting nearly as much force on your already compromised split limb, giving you the control needed to bring it to the ground where you want, slowly.
I have no idea what a "goon cut" is, but there are many ways to control what a limb is going to do when you cut it. Search TreeSpyder's posts re: hinges, MUCH to learn there.
In this specific instance, the biggest factor to have it go right would have been to identify the split before you put your saw to it. If you had seen the split, you could have oriented your hinge so that both the top and bottom of the split provided support until tear off, or completely severed the compression wood, and set your hinge in the tension wood above the split, minimizing the size of the barberchair (if it would have at all) when you start the top cut. Its not easy to make that deep of an undercut without trapping your bar, mostly depends on the location of the split.
I've got way more to learn than I've learned so far, and listening to the advice given on this site has eased and accelerated the process. But all the information in the world wont help you if your'e not interested in finding the "right way".