I'd love to see a picture of the notch, either of the trunk or piece removed. To me it doesn't appear your notch was deep enough into the trunk. How thick of a slap was still standing after the break? How much hinge wood?
Sorry, no other pictures. The slab left behind was about 4" thick at its widest in the center. Pic has a me with a limbing saw, but i used my MS660 36" bar for the notch and backcut. Only had maybe 4 barber chairs in 30+ years in the business.
The notch would be on the other side of the barber chair. Which would have been on the bottom side of the lean.
******** there is no notch in that tree I can see 95% of the diameter sitting on the ground next to the stump there is no notch in that log! if u had 4 inches of a slab sticking up how deep was your notch ? Half an inch?? I don't see the notch piece on the ground anywhere, could it be out of the shot sure it could, but I dunno... u yourself said u made a notch 80 to 85% of the trees diameter, so u either cut way to deep and it just fell over or u only cut into the tree 15 to 20 % depending how you were referring to 80% but then that 4 inch slab would be much closer to the center of the stump not right on the edge!!
Yeah Chris, The notch is on the backside of the chairback. It fell in the direction I wanted it to go, just let loose about an inch sooner than I wanted. If we call this a 30"diameter tree, I wanted 3" [10%] of hinge, chairback is @ 4" max width. The depth of the notch was probably 5"to6". I always keep a sharp eye on my backcut and head out as soon as it starts to open up. That is why I don't like the idea of a plunge cut. Seems like everything would happen all at once, giving the sawyer no time to get out of the way. Thanks for the constructive criticism climbhightree and gorman.
No notch in that tree.
They got buried in da snow
