Normally I like to experiment with things to see what happens / learn new things.
However with felling small trees, I think I'll do all my "experimenting" only by first discussing it here!
Anyway for a small diameter tree (like 10 inches) which has no obvious lean and there is a possibility of the tree sitting back on your saw when cutting the back cut.... (And you can't stick in a wedge behind the saw because tree is too small.)
How about first making a "lean cut" [my invented words] higher up on the tree which would be the same as a back cut, then hammering in a wedge. This would create a lean I would imagine???? Or would the tree not lean because there was no face cut????
THEN... Say a foot below this "lean cut and wedge", make a regular face cut and back cut. Then the tree would be guaranteed to fall the direction you want.
(Or making this "lean cut" lower down than the regular cuts???)
However with felling small trees, I think I'll do all my "experimenting" only by first discussing it here!
Anyway for a small diameter tree (like 10 inches) which has no obvious lean and there is a possibility of the tree sitting back on your saw when cutting the back cut.... (And you can't stick in a wedge behind the saw because tree is too small.)
How about first making a "lean cut" [my invented words] higher up on the tree which would be the same as a back cut, then hammering in a wedge. This would create a lean I would imagine???? Or would the tree not lean because there was no face cut????
THEN... Say a foot below this "lean cut and wedge", make a regular face cut and back cut. Then the tree would be guaranteed to fall the direction you want.
(Or making this "lean cut" lower down than the regular cuts???)