Why did you back cut the stump? Unnecessarily dangerous to run the saw on the top side of the bar if you don’t have to.You want it pulling into the wood, not pushing back out. You had 3 very close calls in this video man, I hope others take that as the biggest learning from everything you showed. Can’t stress enough these are just bad ideas. The time to rig all of those hung up trees was before you ever touched them with the saw. You also got speared twice and almost dropped 2 on the garden tractor. Learn what a snatch block is and how to use it and you won’t spend extra time rigging your come along and you’ll be way safer. The time to use your come along would have been on the last one. I still fail to see what the chain really does long term? What if the crowns get caught up in other trees and it doesn’t split all the way down? Now you’ve got 2 hang ups and no safe way to cut them down with out compromising the structure of the other. By then, the thing could be split too far down to get any leverage on it. Should have wrapped the chain around the whole thing where it was mostly still together as high as possible, hook a clevis and a strong rope to it, then put a small amount of tension on. cut a shallow wedge and then pull it with the come along the rest of the way. You need to learn to make a double cut on the backside of the small trees, then you can get 2 stacked wedges in right away. As you discovered, smaller trees are the hardest to wedge becuz the wedge hits the hinge wood before it lifts the tree enough.
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Excellent real life situations, love the chain idea, thanks!!
I had to chuckle when that tree narrowly missed your tractor. I had a similar situation with my 4 wheeler
What would happen if the tree split while you were climbing?
Why did you back cut the stump? Unnecessarily dangerous to run the saw on the top side of the bar if you don’t have to.You want it pulling into the wood, not pushing back out.
You had 3 very close calls in this video man, I hope others take that as the biggest learning from everything you showed. Can’t stress enough these are just bad ideas.
The time to rig all of those hung up trees was before you ever touched them with the saw. You also got speared twice and almost dropped 2 on the garden tractor.
Learn what a snatch block is and how to use it and you won’t spend extra time rigging your come along and you’ll be way safer. The time to use your come along would have been on the last one. I still fail to see what the chain really does long term? What if the crowns get caught up in other trees and it doesn’t split all the way down? Now you’ve got 2 hang ups and no safe way to cut them down with out compromising the structure of the other. By then, the thing could be split too far down to get any leverage on it. Should have wrapped the chain around the whole thing where it was mostly still together as high as possible, hook a clevis and a strong rope to it, then put a small amount of tension on. cut a shallow wedge and then pull it with the come along the rest of the way.
You need to learn to make a double cut on the backside of the small trees, then you can get 2 stacked wedges in right away. As you discovered, smaller trees are the hardest to wedge becuz the wedge hits the hinge wood before it lifts the tree enough.
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