Cut it with a motorized Pole Saw .
Post of the day!!!!!!I don't see any notch cut at all in that photo...
I would not advise any further felling or cleanup attempts in any way without at very least, spending some considerable time on Youtube watching professional felling techniques. Especially look for how to fell leaners with bore cuts. Thank your lucky stars this one didn't kill you.
11-S-14: Barber-Chair Tree Kills Logger
by Rick Meyer
"In this incident, the timber cutter (deceased) used a common felling method in which the undercut notch was less than 45 degrees, and he completed the backcut from the outside of the tree working inward toward the hinge. The problem with this technique is that the small-angle notch closes up before the tree has fallen even halfway to the ground. This puts stress on the hinge and causes fiber pull, sometimes splitting the butt log or creating a dangerous barberchair. This common method also requires the timber cutter to continue standing at the tree and sawing through more of the hinge as the tree begins its fall, to keep the tree from rocking backward or stopping short of breaking.
A safer method of felling is to create an open-faced undercut notch, 70 to 90 degrees; and then to bore through the tree to create the hinge first, working backward toward the outside of the tree from the direction of the hinge to complete the cut, using wedges if necessary. Using this open-faced method, as taught in The Game of Logging training program, would have prevented the tree from barber chairing; and even if the saw had run out of fuel, the uncut part of the tree would have held the tree in place and not caused it to fall prematurely."
https://forestresources.org/digital-magazine/item/203-barber-chair-tree-kills-logger
Problem is his saw is stuck already half way through the tree.....you can just see the end of the bar sticking out from the "back cut"....Go slow on any cut you're not sure of and see what the tree is telling you--in other words watch the kerf you're cutting to see is it opening quickly or wanting to close and pinch your bar.
Judging from the tiny wedge sitting on the stump and the fact that that's a pig hickory, I think I can deduce what happened. I'm confused though about what appears to the the chain saw bar stuck in the notch side of the tree. Is that what that is, and if so, why is it there? Or is that an optical illusion?
Where that wedge came from and why the bar is stuck seems pretty clear. Why the wedge is on the stump, no idea.Judging from the tiny wedge sitting on the stump and the fact that that's a pig hickory, I think I can deduce what happened. I'm confused though about what appears to the the chain saw bar stuck in the notch side of the tree. Is that what that is, and if so, why is it there? Or is that an optical illusion?
Where that wedge came from and why the bar is stuck seems pretty clear. Why the wedge is on the stump, no idea.
Seems like the wedge came from the side of the tree towards the woods. That tiny wedge didn't come from the camera side, unless maybe he cut a bunch of little slivers out and that's what was left (which is certainly possible). Why the bar is stuck on the woods side is what's a bit confusing to me. Can't imagine why somebody would be cutting on that side after a barber chair like that. Maybe he cut the camera side, tree fell and barberchaired, and then got the bar stuck that way in a misguided attempt to cut it loose? This is like some kind of tree guy detective game. Need to interview the perp.A tree can barberchair forwards or backwards. Possibly that one b.c. backwards.
Problem is his saw is stuck already half way through the tree.....you can just see the end of the bar sticking out from the "back cut"....
That bar is not going anywhere until the better part of the tree is removed. He needs to remove the powerhead, step away, then hire somebody who knows how do deal with hazardous trees to clean up that mess.....
I was looking for a bar too and now I see a pole pruner stuck in it.Not clear to me that's a bar. And it's sure not a backcut
Maybe, just maybe he was trying to do a back cut first on a heavy leaner but that is definitely not something one should try without considerable experience and instruction. Video below is a very experienced Faller on Vancouver Island.This is like some kind of tree guy detective game. Need to interview the perp.
Now I see it thanks.Looks like a bar, doesn't look like a wedge of any sort....
Heres what I see with a bit of closer looking-
A small narrow face cut was made on the part of the tree that is not visible, trying to get the tree to fall to the left, away from the camera position. A deep back cut was made and the tree started to go over slowly, the face cut closed up, stopped the fall and the tree split somewhere along the line but didn't fall all the way. An attempt was made to re-establish a face cut so the tree would fall but that of course resulted in the bar being pinched. The small wedge on the stump, who knows, maybe just tossed there out of the way?
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