DANGEROUS TREES! Severe Lean, How to fell a tree with hard lean

Smart technique! I never thought about that you could do steps like that.. Thanks man I've got a few trees on my yard that's leaning :) :)

Thanks as a cutter in the black hills i had the pleasure during a windy day of being a eye witness of a 17ft barber chair .the noise i havent forgot dont want another

Excellent video. Thank you

Nice

Sooo . . . looks almost like a creative use for a Dutchman. I'm impressed.

Excellent information

This is a load of shit only two cuts are needed (1) cut out a wedge on the leaning side (2) then one cut only from the opposite side of the first cut.

Thanks for video brother

I doubt the usefulness of the overlapping steps. You mention something about the middle of the tree kicking back, but your steps become non-functional, with the slightest bit of additional tilt. The barber chair is caused by shear forces being concentrated in a narrow, vertical blade of wood, as the tree starts to hinge over, if the back cut is brought toward the hinge. By simply cutting the back cut in the reverse direction, out the back, from the completed hinge, this shear stress concentration is eliminated. Your steps accomplished that effect but in a more complicated way than was necessary.

He's wearing all the safety gear, and performed a textbook perfect fell, listen to this man!

thanks for the useful and succinct video

Thanks!

Man that's good, but that saw needs the clutch drum bearing grease and a bigger carb

Great stuff, you clearly know what you’re doing! 👍

Thanks. I have one I need to do.

Don’t add unnecessary complexity!Granted I have only been cutting professionally since 2017, mostly in Colorado conifers, I’m sure the old timers would agree with me that stair stepping boring cuts is pointless/dangerous beyond having a single ‘stump shot’ to prevent the butt of the bole from kicking back over the stump, when there is potential (such as felling up a steep hill). As long as you have properly set your holding wood at the beginning of the boring back cut, it will not release until you cut through the trigger on the opposite side from the face cut. I think this is actually more dangerous than a standard boring back-cut, given that you are spending more time under the tree than necessary and actually increasing the possibility of a barber chair by introducing overlapping cuts. It gives the appearance of skill (nice flat cuts!), but some newbie homeowner is going to definitely not get the overlap right and cause a barber chair by having an unintended second piece of holding wood in the middle of the tree, creating a point where the fibers could likely split up the bole, then barber-chairing anyways. This cut is still relying on the trigger (aka back strap). I do appreciate the sap wood cuts on the corners of the hinge and that your face cut was very shallow, which are other valid mitigation techniques. There is no one ‘right’ technique, but introducing more potential for error when a simpler method works just as well or safer, is a negative quality in a sawyer. Just my 2 cents. Stay safe out there y’all.

That was a great technique. Boy that tree popped fast. Note to cutters....before the Arborist finished his cut....he scoped out his escape route

You left the engine running on the tractor.....don’t do that please.

Wow...what a very good idea/technique!
Keep safe, thanks.

That's not an undercut, that's a joke.

I referred to this video in the woods the other day just before felling a big leaning larch - just to refresh the memory on proper technique. Followed the video precisely and it was perfect 👌🏻👌🏻
Thank you man 👍🏻

That's nice

Thanks for keeping it short and to the point. I have a bowed over oak tree that just died during the dry hot summer. I is on the fence line and I don't want to have to rebuild the cedar fence. My tree is slightly smaller than the one you used to demo. As an old retired shrimp boat owner I keep thinking it would make a perfect bow stem for a 30 to 40 foot boat.

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Excellent presentation and demonstration. 👏👏

Thanks for the tip. I've never actually had a tree barber chair on me (yet) but that little clip you had in there of one that did certainly illustrates the point of how dangerous it is!

Great teaching! Thanks man.

Ratchet strap the tree first

After a bore cut out towards the back...the release cut should be made from the outside to prevent the tree from possibly taking the bar with it...dont worry....with that much tension...it will pop...

Not a bad video but sheesh, you stopped detailed filming of your final final felling cut!!

Awesome! Great technique. haha

some pro levels work.

Now is it possible the fell the tree the opposite way it’s leaning cause I got a house in the way.

Wow! Great backcuts!

WHAT DO YOU SUGGEST FOR SMALLER DIAMETER TREES THAT DON'T HAVE SPACE FOR THIS TECHNIQUE ?

Why can't he just do a STANDARD non-overlapping bore cut 1.5" above and behind the hinge? Cut it back more so just the back strap holds the tree. Then just cut the back strap? You can do a bigger wedge to give you more time before the hinge breaks.

Approved 🧌

One of those rare videos where I actually learned something that may save my life!

Thank you

I'm going to have to try that, I've got a few leaners that need to be taken down

Most amuture videos I've seen go take a class bud who taught you this?

Ok it's leaning and if you just cut that hoe down right there the way it's leaning the only trouble I see is it might hit another tree lol I'd had that hoe cut down and cut up while your playing

That is a good video!. Thanks for that technique, will come in handy.

I thought the tree was going down opposite to the lean. I'm thinking that this is a miracle I'm about to witness.

Sweet

Thank you for sharing this video! You made it look so easy and simple! I have to cut one that looks the same. Excellent explanation step by step!

Why not tighten a ratchet strap above the cut so it cant plit ?

Excellent !

Yep with some trees even doing a special cut like that they will still barber chair, so in my opinion depending on the tree, you should always wrap the base with a chain or a strap

How would you cut a smaller tree that you can’t cut like that. Say pine tree that’s tall and only 14 to 18 inch trunk?