Some Tree Work is Easy, Some is Not
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- Опубликовано: 9 дек 2023
- Falling limbs + Mud + Window = One Big Mistake
While I always try to avoid making big mistakes, sometimes they just happen. Luckily, this one wasn't as bad as it first looked (But I did see my life flash before my eyes)
#treeclimbing #treeremoval #chainsaws
Cherry trees always fight back 😝 they have hurt me on more than one occasion. I like your message at the end of the video. Nobody’s perfect out here. 💪 We are all just trying to learn and become better. It was nice to sit back and drink my coffee this morning watching your video. Keep them coming bro. 😊
Thanks man! I'm glad to hear it! It takes discipline, but I think it pays off in the end!
I don't care what your cutting, clearing, or even trimming, they ALWAYS fight back. I've been poked, punched, stuck, tripped over, and the worst slapped by trees and bushes.
Trees in general fight back. I like the wild black cherry. Strong and predictable. The bark grabs everything tho.
My two favorite smaller tree channels in the same comment section 🤯 you guys should collab for RUclips
@@gormaionem4648 absolutely I agree 💯 percent! 💪🌲what say you? @zaccheus
You helped make this one exciting Zach! Little bit of barber chair, crashing limbs, and an end over end mud slinger. All in all nobody got hurt and the house just got dirty so it was a good day. Love your humility and being real in your videos.
Hahaha, thank you, Jon 😁 It was all the kind excitement that I generally try to keep out of a job, but I am blessed to be able to say thay everything turned out okay in the end.
I for one appreciate leaving mistakes in videos like this as no one ever learned from another’s omitted, obfuscated, or secret mistake.
Certainly not. One of my dad's favorite sayings is "a fool neglects to learn from his mistakes, a smart man learns from his mistakes, but a truly wise man learns from others mistakes."
Thanks for the honesty and humility - I'll take that in a co-worker over perfection any day.
Once again, I appreciate your humility! That’ll keep you alive a lot longer than being a hotshot! Good job once again, and you’re a great teacher!
Thanks Chuck!
Did a great job ! Thank you, and I cleaned the mud off the bar window the other day. All is good 😂
Haha, awesome! Thanks for understanding! It was a fun tree to bring down, and I'm so very thankful that the consequences were minimal. Good luck with the log!
Cool project and great words of advice. So easy to get distracted by something early in a job and let it effect is the rest of the job.
Thanks, Sam! Seems like it's been a part of my development in nearly every job I've worked. I can only imagine others sometimes experience the same.
That was a close one man - glad you shared at the end about mistakes and letting them get to you. I’m hyper critical of my work also and have fallen into the same trap. Stay safe brother!
Trap is a good word for it. Self criticism is necessary for improvement, but too much can lead down a bad path. Thanks!
The difference between a pro and an amateur in this situation is an amateur (like me) would have thought "at least it's on the ground", after the first cut. A pro (like you) can evaluate the situation and make corrections. Being self-aware and seeing the potential (even if not realized) consequences is a definite positive!
This passed spring my sister-in-law had a pro company take down a huge red oak. They did something similar when they fell the stem. It sent huge chunks of mud over the fence and splattered the patio and pool cover of the neighbors. They seemed fine with it, no reflection or remorse.
Great video!
Thanks Kevin! It's never fun to do less than perfect work when offering professional services. I'm sorry to hear that your sister in law had such an experience. I remember when that tree was starting to fail and needed to come down. Sometimes things like mud splatter are hard to forsee, but I think it's still important to take responsibility for unforseen consequences of your actions.
Scariest tree I ever climbed in Ohio was a cherry around 100ft. It also had a giant secondary stem. I had to do a 90ft straight ascent over straight air. The only way to climb it! Luckily all I had to do was cut out big deadwood leads.
6 months later, I went back to that job site, and the ENTIRE secondary lead had snapped off in half during a windstorm and crashed into the woods. The tree looked safe upon inspection when I climbed it, but 50% of the entire center had brown rot. Invisible, no way of knowing.
Looking back, I realized the reason I was so scared climbing that tree, was because my gut was trying to warn me not to trust it.
Aw man, I hate those experiences. That sounds to me like you had someone looking out for ya 😅
The scariest is always the unknown. I'm glad all the trees round here are tiny 😅
You're videos are great the way you explain stuff . I love your videos a lot god bless stay safe buddy
Thanks Bill!
Youve probably figured it out now, but that first iffy cut was due to the notch closing up too soon. The force of weight closing up on those faces jacked the hinge wood upwards causing it snap. So far I've always regretted doing too acute an angled notch (Sink cut here in the UK). Either ways good work dude.
Thanks for the thoughts Bob! I'm really not 100% that the face ever even closed. I thi k I know what you're talking about thought, too acute of an angle doesn't bend the fibers enough for them to break off when the faces of the notch meet. I really wish I had captured a better angle of that cut so I could know more certainly what went wrong there.
that limb took off like one of those poles they toss in the Scottish highland games! I know you will re-live that one for a while. Thanks for sharing it, and hey, did you just say I'm not perfect either? hahahaha, I need to hear that too I guess. : )
Haha yes it did! I think I've seen videos of those contests. Super cool principle as long as it's not sending a log toward a house 😂
Haha, believe me, I wish perfection was achievable, I really do 😅
That 881 lookin mighty clean. Thought it was new for a sec!
Haha this wasn't it's first cut, but it was new late this year. It's not mine, the fella I was working for owns it. First one I've ever used. She heavy 😰😅
I love your videos! Keep them coming! Thank you!
Thanks for sharing! I'll do my best!
So many things to watch out for, but you can’t ever guess all of them. Glad nothing serious happened
Awesome work bro 🤙🏻 keep safe
Thanks man, you too!
Yo my guy that mud whipper scene might go viral on a short. That was but puckerin.
Hey, that's a good thought! I might just put one together.
I was so nervous on that first branch you cut. When I saw it barber chairing I was having a mini panic attack. I'm glad it ended up exactly where you wanted it.
Haha you and me both man. I hated it. It really messed up my head space for the rest of the job too, which was obvious 😅 I'm just glad we didn't have any more serious consequences.
Enjoyed the video. Definitely a unique tree in a unique location. Heavy leaner, heavy limbs and steep (cliff) drop zone (and house within range). You did good. One rogue spar chunk ventured away from the "program"......didn't play it's part. I've dropped limbs and logs down steep gullies in the past. I noticed several different reactions from the limbs and chunks when dropped. Most predictable.....some not so much. Ropes are our safety cushion...both for climbing and rigging (controlling dropped limbs and logs).
Absolutely, I thought a couple of times about halting the project and getting out some rigging equipment. I talked myself into thinking that I would be silly to make so many extra trips to drag everything to the top of that hill. Turns out it would have been worth it 😅
Something I like the most about rigging is that it's often way more reliable than the guesswork associated with free falling. Some folks would probably laugh at the stuff I've rigged becaise it appeared needless, but when you need absolute success, rigging can be about as close as you can get sometimes.
Not everything goes as planned. Kudos for honesty and transparency :)
Indeed, thanks man 😊
am always impressed with your honesty. I suppose with your mind sort of "unfocused", at least maybe temporarily, I wondered why you wouldn't have negative rigged a couple of chunks first b4 falling the stem? Just wanting to get it over with, eh? Pretty cool work location. From road, creek elevation that was up there a bit. Good job Zach, thanks.
Thanks, Clell!
That's a great question, and the thought did actually cross my mind. After that experience, it seems silly that I didn't rig those pieces out, but when I was up there and things were going fairly smooth, it seemed silly ro stop the project and spend an hour getting everything out, dragging it up the hill, rigging two chunks, taking it all down the tree, packing it up, and carrying it back down the hill. I guess hindsight will always be 20/20, and maybe I'll be more inclined to consider the magnitude of the possible consequences next time 😬😅
thanks for posting the wonky stuff...so much more informative than just posting the sweet successes....tree work teaches lessons and the tree gods do seem to favour us most times thankfully...but best not to call on them too often. :)
No problem!
Bro I had terrible day other day was like I forgot how to cut trees .don't feel bad .as long as your safe nothing broke.
Those are fun jobs.just got one dropped 10 good size ones ended up makeing several mistakes. Just couldn't do anything right otherday..?was strange even basic cuts.i have 1 huge redoak to finish no clean up. But it has top weight going towards the house and gas tank.thinking I might need to climb and cut top.out. hurt real bad my back so was hoping could put 3/4 200ft line on grcs and pull it .the slope goes toward the road 30 degrees but tree leans to the right towards trees they want and house. There is a hole to squeeze in threw but the way it faces and being on hill don't think I can notch it that way kinda goes towards the road but the side lean might interfere with that or worse.its a good 90 ft or more has 1 limb on le ft. Dead.and rest leans up over towards the woods that's its in.but at the targets. I should have saved some of the trees to use for rigging or at least to tie off.kinda showed up thinking was just guna be felling but turned out be bigger job .hickory s .maples .beech and oak .and others
Seems like that's how it always goes. It's the jobs that seem like they should be easy but keep getting more difficult that seem to get you ahead of yourself and leave you wish you had taken a different approach in the end. Best of luck to you with that project.
Great video demonstrating that were all human and aren’t perfect! I hate the depiction that social media provides making everyone seem perfect. Well done. Also going back to your hinge I think maybe you left a perfect amount based on how rotten it was. Granted you really couldn’t tell before hand. All in all great job brother!
Thanks for the encouragement! It must have been "good enough" which is what really counts in the end I suppose 😊
It is a technique when manually handling down logs to spin them on a parallel access, or what might be referred to as a rotation. The way helicopter blades move. This is it from me personally. Just what I've learned from other tree guys and forces and vectors etc.
You mean like giving the butt a shove sideways as the piece comes off of the tree? I can see how that might help it land flat.
There is some science behind what we do, but id say in reality its experience based guess work. Dealing with nature, you just never know. I agree with you 100% we all make mistakes its going to happen and do our best to mitigate it. Its dangerous work. People i dont think truly understand the amount of weight we deal with
no doubt
Absolutely, man. It's definitely a mix of all three things, science, experience, and guesswork. For the longest time I discredited the value of experience and that led me to more mistakes than anything.
Hey great video. Would a vertical zipline setup have prevented the pitchpole getaway? I've used it a couple of times, running a line vertically down the trunk, tied off top and bottom and a sling and steel biner on the piece being cut (neither of which you treasure in any way cuz they can get pretty beat up). Down she goes but one end stays more near the treetrunk/ root flare. I've also tied off a stem above and below my felling cut on big hills, with some old 5/8" rigging line. Left some slack in it, but it stopped the trunk from taking off downhill. Ya don't want to be anywhere near the hinge/ backcut when she goes, in case the rope breaks and slingshots back, but it worked for me couple times. Probably not in any felling book though. Like your videos, especially when you show yourself moving around the tree, not just cuts. Season's Greetings and Cheers.
Hey thanks for your thoughts! A vertical zip line would have been a good idea. I've never tried that, but I cam definitely see how it would have been a quick way to keep the pieces close.
Nice huge cut @5:27!!! I like taking them big like this to if I can, maybe a helpful tip for you... With the bore cut after you set up the hinge..." I already know you get nervous about all the weight pinching your saw😂"... Anyways, instead of leaving the hinge all the way across like normal, bore out the center of it to where your nose comes out of the center of the notch, till your left with like, i call them hinge pins And it'll be less likely to happen and be sure to put kurf cuts... That barbor chair has happened to me a lot ... Gets worse with ash and cherry heavy learners 🤙 anyways man I like your videos, great climber!!! Always a pleasure to watch!!... Maybe next opportunity I get I'll make a video myself on it may help to keep us all safe!!! Nothing like that feeling when them big uns let go!!!!😜
Haha for sure man! Send me the video if you make one! I might have to try that method sometime. I have had hinge fibers compress and close the kerf while I was tidying up the hinge. It wasn't a fun experience 😅
@@zaccheus will do man👍 oh man I already know been there done that!🤣 it's the worst when your off the ground hanging from a string!!
@zaccheus I think reg Coates has a video explaining this concept. If I'm understanding properly. It's hard translating words to pictures sometimes. ruclips.net/video/BR_2sFgBuYY/видео.htmlsi=R8y4fIUZChLDA7hk
I take the center out of every hinge I cut on the trees with forward lean. Don’t see that too often, I see most guys do a trigger hinge bore cut or like August does with the post cut he does. Leaving only the center. Opposite of what we’re describing.
Big Cherries are always Sketchy!!
Very small face cuts like 1/4 will cause Barber chair Dynamics. Especially with pull force or parallel weight. I've done this on purpose after having a similar experience. Chasing the cut works with the appropriate saw.
If chasing the cut with the saw helps, I'd be inclined to think that the problem had more to do with how thick the hinge is. I can definitely see that super super narrow notch could cause a barber chair.
I failed to mention...getting to maybe destroy a couple of hackberries. that's a good day, any day!
Haha no kidding, I was very suprised to see them that far north. That job was in Norwalk, Ohio and those trees done seem to grow a whole lot north of Columbus from. What I've seen 🤷♂️
Hey man waz guna try the technique you used .what s name of that video you did with the base tie and +canopy tie with 2 quickies. Wanted to try it
"SRT Anchors" ruclips.net/video/4yjbVgiqZsg/видео.htmlsi=6L0YuD_VF47QLVqc
Love cheery best firewood .been buring it all year and last
Great video! Thanks for sharing. I enjoyed it from Vermont. How tall you reckon that baby was?
You bet, glad to hear it!
The tree itself wasn't anything crazy. It was maybe 75ft or 80ft, but the bank below it was probably every bit of 50 or 60 feet. I never measured, but I'm guessing I was 120ft over that lower plateau.
would a deeper face prevent that first blowout? or just a matter of the hinge being too thick?
I'm not really sure. There seems to be a variety of opinions here in the comments. If I had to pick, I'd say the thick hinge was more the culprit 🤷♂️
Lesson learned. That's called experience.
Indeed, it comes in many forms
Big cherry there buddy!
It was a bigg'un! Nice to have an 881 onsite for the falling cut 😅
Super work there Zac and crew, very accurate felling on that large stick, love the look of your beautiful MS 881 and “ How Sweet The Sound “ What length B&C have you on this awesome machine, are you impressed ? I have just Subscribed, greeting from Ireland !!!
Hello there! That 881 has a 120cm bar and chain on it. It might have been a little more than I really needed for this tree, but it was nice to have!
It came down safe, Good job ! What state are you in?
Thanks Pat! We are in northern Ohio here 😊
And what do you mean calling me not perfect? You said you're not perfect, but I'm perfect. LOL God bless buddy. You're definitely right, nobody's perfect. We all make mistakes, and we all learn from them. You're attitude is great, god bless.
Hahah, thanks Bill. I don't doubt that experience probably gets people closer to perfection. I would be very suprised to find a climber who doesn't a mistake at least once in a while. Hopefully all of the mistakes are minor and provide opportunities to learn core principles before major mistakes happen.
No shame in the bore cut and I would have used a vertical speed line for the logs I have done trees on hills before and that has always worked well for me
Thanks man. That's definitely the method I did not consider while I was up there. Thanks for mentioning that!
@@zaccheus your welcome you share so much to us so I was excited to share with you
Hey, buddy, I wanted to ask you if you know the bent right ring. I have those it says you can use a 3/4 rope. But it's super tight getting it in what is your opinion
I have looked at it before online, and I handled some really big rings at the tci show recently. Bend radius is a controversial topic in our industry. Samson says that a bend in a braided rope that moves around a block or pulley should have and 8:1 bend ratio. So a 1/2" rope should be on a 4" sheave. The problem is that the industry has had good enough success with following the good old 4:1 ratio that equipment manufacturers don't really make anything that big. Bend rite says they have their ring optimized to meet the 4:1 ratio with up to a 9/16" rope. I probably would avoid going much bigger than that. I also don't like to use rings in places where their temperature cannot be monitored. Some ropes can lose as much as 50% of their strength at as low as 150°F.
Rings are super handy, I think they just have to be used carefully with really good judgment. I have had friends who broke a rope right at the ring before.
@zaccheus I understand now I got you buddy. I guess I'll have to rig smaller than or just use a big block to take a bigger piece with the 3/4 rope.
@br-dj2ti Big blocks are a pain because they're so heavy. I have had my eye on some off centered rings that might make it possible to run the work rope over the large radius on the ring and maybe put the sling on the small radius 🤔
The second plunge cut was textbook
Thanks, Jeff! That's mighty encouraging to hear from a fella with your experience.
I'm surprised, buddy when you dropped the big log. You didn't no wedges in there it went great tho nice work god bless
Ah, I was wondering is anyone would say anything about that. I'm not one to suggest leaving out wedges, but in a case like that, I find I get a little more information out of the log if I leave the wedges out. As I'm cutting up to the hinge, it lets me know when the remaining wood is small enough to allow the tree to move. In a way, it tells me when it's ready to go. Maybe not the best practice for many scenarios, but I find it handy in cases like this one 🤷♂️
@@zaccheus That does make sense 100%. I might use that technique and certain situations thank you god bless buddy I never thought about that all these years. L o l learned something all the time I love it
@br-dj2ti haha, me too, man. I love learning new things!
that cartwheeling log headed for the house scared me! hard to tell the slope from up in the tree.😀👍alls well that ends well!
Haha mee to man, me too! I though for sure it was going to lunch a hole in the side of the house there for a minute!
That first cut you made should’ve had a little deeper of a notch that was way to shallow
I won't argue that it was on the shallow side, but I don't think the notch size was a contributor to the barberchair. Atleast I'm not sure how it could mechanically contribute to the risk of barberchair in this scenario.
Would love to see an excavator review from you!
Hey I'm glad to hear that. I'll keep that in mind for when the work slows down and I need video content. Are you looking into buying one?
@@zaccheus eventually I still need to buy a chipper and a chip truck first. Still working with dump trailer, but there are a lot of land clearing jobs down here and wanted to know what would be a good excavator to have that was big enough but not too big that it’s a pain to haul around.
@seanshaffer2271 What size truck do you have to haul with? Are you hoping to haul the machine in the dump trailer?
@@zaccheus I just bought a new 7x16 dump trailer to replace my 6x12. So I can more safely transport my tractor. I have a 2019 RAM 1500 that can pull 10k, but I know I’ll need to buy a 1ton soon, or I’ll wear out my drive train.
@@zaccheus I’m a certified arborist and for now do mostly pruning. I know I need heavier duty equipment to do the removals effectively enough to make a profit.
It wont produce the best yield as far as lumber goes, but it will definitely be worth it to mill it.
Thays kinda what I was thinking. The owners were looking for a few live edge slabs for bar tops, I believe, and I think thay log will give them what they need and probably show some character when they start sawing it.
Had one like that in spring bucket only reached halfway 60ft .I shot a 3/4 line .in it.big shot had come dominant tops.was at least 120ft. It had carpenter ants in 1 limb and strangley also in tree about 25 ft up a 4 ft section .the rest was solid .pulled it over just 2 guys. Then dropped the spar.between that cherry and the huge huge persimmons tree were the ants cane from next to it.was 8 14 trailers of rounds by hand .the persimmons waz twice the diameter about 5ft and little shorter .by power lines. Full of ants in half of it.a guy came to get the stump wood and few loggs for carving apparently it's real white carving wood full of purple and white.and yellow .stump waz just white
Very interesting. That's a lot of wood to move by hand!
@@zaccheus it's why I'm hurt.been doing this 4 years alone. Plus other work similar to you landscaping and dirt work..have year round work .had to give more than half away .useing thatc750 ditch witch for 65 hours memorial day week long days no breaks .I buldged my Lowe right disc. So I compensate and move wrong ots on same side as my hernia torn scrotum. Right dominant side .and same side I torn my knee 3 years ago .realy struggling. Then when I have climbing to do or normal work I'm hurt and have to learn all over to do basic things being that can't move normal. It messes with confidence. Can handke it usually but this back pain is worst than tooth pain I used to go threw have new ones but it's same kinda constantly stabbing pain and affects concentration..someday s can barley hold big saw up bent over.as in my picture. There was barb wire but it's because my back pain.thanks happy holidays .......praise God
Surprised was no ants..carpenter ants are usually in theode old cheerys
I wonder if it wasn't just too cold for them to come scurrying out 🤷♂️
@@zaccheus u just pulled a dozen 🍒 rounds out ft under my dump brush pile..great wood 2 of them had carpenter ants hibernating in them poored gas on them and split it..its all I had down at my wood yard..big suckers
Lol trashed the maple beautiful
Lol, it was a little hard on it. It was an acceptable risk to take for the reward of cost savings on this particular project. Definitely wouldn't have taken the risk in someone's front yard 😅
Can I sharpen your saws for you i think they could cut a bit better lol
Are you one of those fellas who thinks they can make it better than the factory?
@@zaccheus oh of course! Lol
@@urboi2054 haha I figured
Pohon yang sangat tinggi , bagaimana perasaan anda di atas?
It's was pretty comfortable. This tree was fairly rigid. 😊
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Haha thats awesome, thanks Wendy!
I ain't nuttn but an armchair arbrist but my guess on the first big branch failure is that your notch was woahfuuly small. I don't know but isn't the notch supposed to be 25-30%? The backside of your hinge looked like it was where the backside of your notch should have have been but you had to make allowances for rot. I think the same variable caused that other branch to massacre that forest tree. The branch didnt look like the hinge swung it toward the target hardly at all. But what wooda happened if you had made on overbig notch? Breakage and the same result?
When you make judgements based on what you see on RUclips you have judged truth as seen through camera lenses. Distorted truth at best.
But at least truth is nigh.
Haha I don't know if you did it on purpose, but thank you for using the word "nigh" in your comment 😂
I think the method generally accepted and taught by most training organizations around here is that a notch for tree felling should be 30% of the diameter or less. I don't think I've ever heard of a minimum, though I have seen super small notches be less effective. It gets a little different when notching a limb that has a bunch of weight hanging out on it. On some species and in some conditions, a 30% notch on a limb will cause the limb to fail or pinch the saw on the first cut. I was a little worried about the integrity of the first, lower limb because of all the decay on the top side of the limb, so I didn't want me make the notch too large. It was also hard to cut and I didn't want to try harder than I had to 😅 in hindsight I think I could have made a bigger notch and a smaller hinge. On the next big limb, it didn't swing as far as I wanted, but I suspect that was mostly due to poor aim.
Thanks for your kind and humble attitude. It's a pleasure to interact with folks like yourself much more than folks who come into the comment section with their chest out.
Zach I had just about completed the below when i rec'd your reply. I will leave it.
Yes"nigh" was intentional.
If I were an arborist for real, A long time ago I would have tried cutting a heavy branch and gone too deep and got bound up and realized that while watching you do it. But, alas, I am only an armchair arborist.
I like to comment on vids or channels that I like, Al Gore ithms you know. But sometimes I suppose I comment with my chest out too if I think I'm dealing with bullies. At those times I can become bullying myself. Its something that I dont like to recognize in myself and since I mimic those I'm around to some extent, the best thing I can do is associate with a type of person who I would like to be more like. On RUclips, I find people with a demeanor similar to yours set that example for me. Thanks !
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Hey Zacheus, I didn't mean the crack about "nigh" to be ridicule. I have been ridiculed for my vocabulary for my whole life and it caused me to dumb down and lose some of it. People pick on others to exclude though I once had an acquaintance who made you feel included when he picked on you. That was my intentions with the crack.
Don't let anyone curb your vocabulary especially me.
The reason I like your channel is how well spoken and considerate you are. And I love arborism and my career was construction so equipment too of course!
I'm sorry.
Did he say "arborism" ? Is that a word or did he just make that up?
And "alas" who the heck says alas?
@@Estwing22 I harp on vocabulary. If you have a broad vocabulary, you can communicate efficiently without turning my chest into a bellows of “like” and “umm” and an essay about another instance to recall, so as to use as a replacement for descriptive terminology
@@ericharris893 did you tell me that if "I" have a broad vocabulary and that "I" can communicate efficiently without turning "your" chest into a bellows? I don't get that part, so I guess everything after that is way too hard for my simple brain to understand, could you elucidate?
Asking for elucidation might sometimes be considered to be similar to asking for illumination.
Asking you to elucidate means can you clear this up for me. While asking you to illuminate something means would you shine light on this. But the answer you get will differ depending on whether someone gives you your answer literally or figuratively. That means asking for illumination might get you an explanation, or a flashlight. Capice?
You know at this point the best advice I could give you is to proofread. Lay off the sauce. And sober up. Proofreading helped me maybe it'll help yoo tou.
@@Estwing22 in general, people nowadays, just use “like” and “um” whene there describing something, and bring up an instance that’s comparable, so as to make the description because their lack of vocabulary. Here in New York wee mean and sarcastic. Maybe it comes off as defamatory, but here, this is how we communicate. No hard feelings at all and my apologies that it sounded like I was putting you down. I was in agreement. Vocabulary is important so anyone won’t have to turn ONE SELFS CHEST into a bellows of “like” and “um”. And if I’m being real, you attitude is a bit abrasive over nothing and we don’t play with sauce. We play with wood.
Good boring technique if thats how u spell it, i also bore the hinge, or separate it into 2 pieces.
Thanks! I think you have it right! It's definitely a very useful cut when executed correctly 😅
I always enjoy and appreciate your videos, thanks for that.
Did you consider, for the second big leaner that delimbed the side of the maple, if you had removed the sycamore limb, which might actually have been good for it, it would have opened a bigger hole to drop that limb through. Then neither would have been damaged (maple not sycamore).
Just a thought.
Thanks, man! And thank you for asking that question, I always enjoy hearing others' perspectives.
I had not heavily considered that option that day as I recall. It would have been outside of the scope of preservation that the job was bid for. That doesn't mean that it wouldn't have been the more correct thing to do. Just that the customer wasn't interested in spending the appropriate amount to cover that much preservation. As I recall, they really weren't interested in putting any money towards saving trees in that hill, I just put the effort into it because it didn't cost me much to do the little things I did and I hate tearing trees up.