MountainHigh
Selective Tree whacker
..... nice instructional thread! Glad it turned out well.
I prefer the tiangle cut most of the time. The T cut doesnt allow as much leverage if you need to pull the tree as it falls. With the triangle cut, if you find you need to hold the tree in one direction or the other, you can simply slow down cutting the side that need to do the holding and increase the speed of cut on the side you dont want to hold. I have pulled some mighty big trees around the side of a hill using that method.the coos View attachment 333764 triangle cut may have prevented this chair ,cutting the sides before the back cut relieves pressure ,i have had good luck with the one on the right ,i think a wise man i know had a quote about straps and chains once and where they belong ,can i ask what the purpose of the tall face was ? looks like that made it chair worse ,not trying to put down your cut ,it just looks like it weakened the tree there to me
I prefer the tiangle cut most of the time. The T cut doesnt allow as much leverage if you need to pull the tree as it falls. With the triangle cut, if you find you need to hold the tree in one direction or the other, you can simply slow down cutting the side that need to do the holding and increase the speed of cut on the side you dont want to hold. I have pulled some mighty big trees around the side of a hill using that method.
can i ask what the purpose of the tall face was ? looks like that made it chair worse ,not trying to put down your cut ,it just looks like it weakened the tree there to me
here's a pic of the tree after I cleared away the big crotch that had peeled off it. There was a big hunk of wood still attached at the base on the leaning side, going up about 6 feet high. There was a vertical crack in the trunk that continued on down from the part that had peeled off. So what I had was a guaranteed barber chair unless I removed a big part of the face. View attachment 333790
Yep it was a success. I never did like it when cutting a leaner and the barber chair started but stopped as soon as the slack was out of the chan. That sudden BANG is a heart stopper. I reviewed the pictures again and doubt the straps would have made difference.Looks like a success from where I am sitting. I will remember the ratchet strap, Harry!
Ron
I like the idea too of a tractor with a "Loooonnnggg" big chain or cable pull out of fall zone to make that hackberry say "UNCLE"!!!!!!The lean in the first pic doesn't look all that extreme (armchair perspective).
Probably would have tried to put a small face cut in it; if it pinched the bar I would have used Masdaam rope puller or capstan winch,por truck, or tractor, or team of abominable snowmen, etc to pull it back enough to free the saw. Without a notch you were asking for excitement, but I understand your rationale.
What caused all that leaning distortion in the 1st place? Disease or ice storm damage or prevailing wind? Just curious, I'm always curious of the "root cause" no pun intended
I see what you mean, I have several small sapling hackberry, black cherry, and mulberry doing that on my south fence line of brome hayfield also?The hackberry was right at the edge of a field, and behind it were some big trees that were blocking all the sunlight, so the tree just naturally grew towards the light. Here's a pic of another hackberry next to it that did the same thing. This one is a lot smaller than the barber monster but shaped in a similar wayView attachment 333837 .
I would put it in the C- category, w/o looking at a chart I would say heat values near sycamore. Not fun to split by hand, I do best taking flakes off the perimeter. Branches like a roll of barb wire when you are trimmingWe dont see a lot of Hackberry around here and am curious if it makes decent firewood?
Ron
Hackberry makes really good firewood and isn't that hard to split. It does need to be split soon after felling, if left in the round for long it gets punky. Split, it will dry fairly fast and stay solid for years.
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