Thanks for the detailed HOW-TO... We just got our first Husqvarna 16" and have never cut a tree down. This video was a HUGE help in learning how to cut down our first tree. A SAFE, precise way to drop a tree where you want it to go!
my friend was talking about this machine that cuts trees with like 2 "arms" and it hugs the tree and cuts it up, and it can go up and down the tree to cut the limbs off? anyone know of such a thing?
Nice job, but careful about walking behind the tree after your back cut has started. This should be taught as a "never to do". A barber chair or if the trunk kicks back could be disastrous.
I've used the crown width center technique described here to successfully point trees. It works every time. This is a very helpful video and outlines good basic techniques for safety. Same stuff I learned in the Husky chainsaw safety class. Thanks Tim!
Back cut will give you wider hinge instead of a small hinge with less direction control. I think this is a great video for non loggers, who wants to remove a tree from backyard or farm safely.
Wow That was a clean cut video! Its amazing how you put that tree right where you said it was going to go. Its like you practically told it where to fall. Great video, Very professional! I'de hire you for sure!
I didn't understand how he calculated exactly where on the tree to cut the face notch/hinge so that he gets the proper angle of fall. Is it done just by sighting up the target? That is, I don't get how he incorporated the degree of lean into all of that. Help, please.
not true, a sloping back-cut is a sign of a true novice. There is NO ADVANTAGE to a sloping back-cut. It just adds more danger and difficulty to the falling process which are unneeded. A flat back-cut is the best, plain and simple.
Calling others "novice" is a sign of a truly insecure douchebag. Cut the way you like and I will cut the way I like... While there is times slopes should be minimal, I have always put them on my cuts for over 25 years, slopes of varying angles for different types of trees and their degree of lean.
Your dead wrong about sloping back-cuts. Not that OHSA is right about everything, but they say there a not acceptable. A sloping back-cut actually increases the chance of the tree going over backwards. Physics happen to be laws, not opinions.
You flat out wrong on this one, and I'm not an insecure douchebag. Just calling out garbage. I totally agree with your other post though, the face notch is too shallow.
The face notch has no function in this "fall"... It is far too small and shallow. The tree is upright as can be and would fall where you want it depending on the direction of the back cut and not the notch.
There are uses to sloped back cuts... That's why they have been used for a long time, even before chainsaws... There is a book called "a climber's best friend" where angled back cuts are visited in a chapter...
Won't let me post links in the reply section so i PM a couple of them to you. One link is OHSA
s logging e-etool. The other link is to a thread that thoroughly goes over this subject with some good diagrams. If there is a book recommending that then it is definitely not a climbers best friend. I sorry but your dead wrong on sloping back-cuts. And yes sloping back-cuts are a sign of a novice. Sound's like you've just stayed at the novice ability level for 25 years.
"And yes sloping back-cuts are a sign of a novice. Sound's like you've just stayed at the novice ability level for 25 years."
Speaking like a true DOUCHEBAG my friend... Chivalry may be dead these days, but douchebaggery, veiled behind the cloak of anonymity certainly isn't...
I will end my correspondence with you on this note: It ALL depends on the lean angle of the tree, and the type of wood... Been a logger long enough to know my craft. Good bye.
Read the links on the PM I sent you and tell me there wrong too. A Logger? anybody using sloping back-cuts would be fired from any side I've ever worked on.
@jimmyab17 Occasionally I will cut the wedge the the top cut horizantal and the angle up from the bottom and slope the back cut to meet the hinge in line with the bottom of the wedge: Here's why. I'm up in a tree(50'or 60') and the top has a chance of contacting another tree before it has fallen all the way. Now the butt can slide off away from me instead of kicking back toward me. That is the only time I will slope a back cut.
can see your a book man you mouth is not always the way you want your tree to go get back in the office you came out of thats a twig try cutting a tree with a 6foot bar on
@hibbyhanky1 the man knows how to cut he started The Game Of Logging with Soren Ericson. Been training since all over the U.S. since I have been cutting with him twice.
@hibbyhanky1 the man knows how to cut he started The Game Of Logging with Soren Ericson. Been training since, all over the U.S. since I have been cutting with him twice.
Great video! Thanks for helping us take our bad trees down safely. We had some nasty trees that take over by growing hard up on good trees and then push them over. Now we have healthy good trees in our yard.
I once "dominoed" 4 trees, I gunned them against their leans and a started on my back cut first and wedged them then did the face cuts last but on the starting tree I did the standard cutting technique and boom boom boom boom, I was impressed with myself, the trees where beetle killed pines.... but I noticed that this guy has a different technique than the people I know and work around, we do whats called a gunning cut which shows precisely where the tree is gonna land and deeper face cuts also.
@nikjohn1997 You want to konw why??? Theres all kinds of reasons for cutting trees, where I am from theres alot of forest area and there is a new killer thats taking more trees than anything... the Mountain Pine Beetle. Takeing out beetle killed trees to stop the spread is very important but whats more imoprtant the safty of me and my crew and any other crews when cutting down massive trees. Thats why someone would want to cut a tree.... or stopping a forest fire, that would be another reason.
Just amazing what youtube can do! Watched this video, went outside, and cut down a 8 m tall tree between a street lamp cable and our precious apple tree with a small opening. And it worked perfectly! :D
Holy smokes...I cut down 175 trees pretty much that size yesterday. Didn't spend wuite that much time planning each fall..hehehe. Went through five tanks of fuel in the mighty Husky 357xp. sharpened her once around midway through the day. Like a hot knife through butter. No wedges or stuff like that. I just cut a 25 or so foot pole before i start, and use it whenever needed which is very seldom. All good ideas there, but a fella needs production sometimes!
I just recently cut down a tree and applied everything discussed in this video. Everything worked out great! The tree fell exactly where I planned it to go. Great how to video! Thanks!
I doubt very much he is cutting those little trees for anything other than personal firewood.Still I agree,no need for a high stump.Cut that face a little deeper too.
You are never supposed to turn your back on a tree that is either falling or hung up! He completely let his eye off the tree as it was falling...definetly not good! Great video otherwise! I will make a few videos of trees falling.
Great video. Of course he used a small and easy tree as a demo, but the explanation was clear and practical. Some of the epxerts here ought to film their many exploits felling trees, if they think they know more than this man. He did a good job.
What if the plunge cut was at say a 15 degree angle down to the hinge. Would that help make the tree fall where you need it too? Would you need a wedge then?
if the back cut is slanting downward towards and end slightly above the hinge cut will this help keep the trunk from falling in the opposite direction through the blocking effect of the slanting cut?
@ghendric The hinge would be too small and would risk not falling at all. The hinge would close before the tree has any good falling weight to pull itself over once the hinge has closed. Stick with 45 degrees
Gravity is going to pull the tree in the direction it is leaning...if you want to conteract that..you need to use mechanical advantage ie the WEDGE
when you cut you create a lever
The hinge acts as a fulcrum with the backcut becoming the lever arms. So this is another reason to keep your notch shallow..giving your wedge more leverage. consider this..a 1 inch thick wedge with a 10inch backcut will move the tree 1 foot in 12 feet of height or 5 feet on a 60 foot tree.
The only thin I'm confused about is how to put a hinge notch and find the back lean on a. Zombie comrade ? Some of them have terrible posture but some are straight as a board.how big do I have to make the notch.
It's recommended to make the notch go about 1/3 of the way into a tree. Don't go any deeper than that because the tree could lean on the chainsaw bar and pinch it.
i don't get it, if you look for the natural lean of the tree and the direction it wants to fall, how can you make the tree land where you want? in other words....can i make any tree fall in any direction i want?
even if the tree has a back lean you can still fell the tree against it's lean if you know how. just because it looks like it has to go one way does'nt mean it does.
You may not always need to be this precise but when you do wont it be nice to know you can. What he did in real time takes about ten minutes. Much less time than waiting for an ambulance or filing an insurance claim..
OK Bob Vila! Now do an advanced studies video on how to cut a tree leaning in one direction or with more weight on one side and get it to fall in the opposite direction.
My comment as you may see is not about the tree in the video. It was a testament to how good this very same technique for me personally. Of course since that time I have cut done much larger trees.
Wow, using a chainsaw is a defenite skill to be done effectively and safely. I just bought a chainsaw and started to cut down dead small trees for firewood only, but I just jumped in there. I found that the tree would usually pinch the blade, or my chain would completley stop in the tree, and other times it just took way to long to cut. One time i made a cut that was so crappy, that when I tried to push the tree down it just came out from the roots instead of breaking off from my cut lol. help!
Why are all of people cutting trees so high???
MultiYxY 5 days ago
NO, don't cut a tree at all!!!!
genisxxx 6 days ago
@genisxxx LOL, get outta here, this is no place to be bitching about trees being cut down...
zackownsathalo3 5 days ago
@zackownsathalo3 this week at school we are talking about ecological problems. lol Tell me the truth - are rain forests going to extinct?
genisxxx 5 days ago
@genisxxx Does this look like a rain Forrest to you?
I dont know about you but where I live, there are no rain forrests
Lol
zackownsathalo3 4 days ago
Thanks very much; very good. Don't mess with chainsaws folks if you value your limbs.
fauxfax 1 week ago
Top notch... lol
MrPhreeradical 2 weeks ago
well done
irreal66 3 weeks ago
Nice instruction. Thank you.
ColtDeltaElite10mm 1 month ago
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TTG360MoDz 1 month ago
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TTG360MoDz 1 month ago
I wanna cut some annoying trees but fuck I can get arrested
XPINOYxTHUGSxSExSD 3 months ago
@XPINOYxTHUGSxSExSD Thats messed up!
SanEverett 2 months ago
Excellent Video as he said PLAN before you cut big branch or tree.. Thanks
EM
ezmirza 3 months ago
That's a good point
rasfredy57 4 months ago
Thanks for the detailed HOW-TO... We just got our first Husqvarna 16" and have never cut a tree down. This video was a HUGE help in learning how to cut down our first tree. A SAFE, precise way to drop a tree where you want it to go!
interfacewebcast 4 months ago
I'm not even cutting down or plannin to cut down a tree soon, but this was a good video.
thedrunkleeeeeeeeeee 5 months ago 4
This is a great video.
segundooron 5 months ago
my friend was talking about this machine that cuts trees with like 2 "arms" and it hugs the tree and cuts it up, and it can go up and down the tree to cut the limbs off? anyone know of such a thing?
Maper555 5 months ago
@Maper555 maybe a feller buncher?
KingNast 3 months ago
Thanks. Good video.
oldtoys1961 5 months ago
Thanks!
Thekillerman1100 6 months ago
Thank you for a well done video -- thanks! Keep cutting those trees -- they're a great renewable resource!
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save the planet rule nuber one : do not cut trees!!!!!
tigrelou 7 months ago
thanks, this vids really helpful.
rahxephon52 8 months ago
Nice job, but careful about walking behind the tree after your back cut has started. This should be taught as a "never to do". A barber chair or if the trunk kicks back could be disastrous.
ForethNinja 8 months ago
bad ass instruction man
daddygreenjeens 8 months ago
IF YOUR SO SMART THEN WHY ARE YOU CUTTING TREES
NegativeFlames 8 months ago
@NegativeFlames did you mean you're? doo doomp tsss
daddygreenjeens 8 months ago
@NegativeFlames It's YOU'RE.
TheL046Kid 6 months ago
Best instructional video on cutting down a tree I have seen!
neuroblade 8 months ago
I've used the crown width center technique described here to successfully point trees. It works every time. This is a very helpful video and outlines good basic techniques for safety. Same stuff I learned in the Husky chainsaw safety class. Thanks Tim!
saraswatilakshmi 8 months ago
Best video that I have seen on this so far. Thanks.
RiordanJohn 8 months ago
Back cut will give you wider hinge instead of a small hinge with less direction control. I think this is a great video for non loggers, who wants to remove a tree from backyard or farm safely.
halukucar 9 months ago
The only problem with this video is not having a STIHL !
xst276 10 months ago
The notch on this tree is ridiculously small...
CactusWolf 10 months ago
Wow That was a clean cut video! Its amazing how you put that tree right where you said it was going to go. Its like you practically told it where to fall. Great video, Very professional! I'de hire you for sure!
watchdisstuff 11 months ago
I didn't understand how he calculated exactly where on the tree to cut the face notch/hinge so that he gets the proper angle of fall. Is it done just by sighting up the target? That is, I don't get how he incorporated the degree of lean into all of that. Help, please.
huskyjerk 1 year ago
Back cut angle must always be downward and not flat (on larger trees) Tree this size is OK...
CactusWolf 1 year ago
@CactusWolf no slope on back cut! any size tree! think what would happen if tree slabbed or barber chaired with downward sloping back cut!
treepete3 1 year ago
@CactusWolf
not true, a sloping back-cut is a sign of a true novice. There is NO ADVANTAGE to a sloping back-cut. It just adds more danger and difficulty to the falling process which are unneeded. A flat back-cut is the best, plain and simple.
jimmyab17 10 months ago
@jimmyab17
Calling others "novice" is a sign of a truly insecure douchebag. Cut the way you like and I will cut the way I like... While there is times slopes should be minimal, I have always put them on my cuts for over 25 years, slopes of varying angles for different types of trees and their degree of lean.
CactusWolf 10 months ago
@CactusWolf
Your dead wrong about sloping back-cuts. Not that OHSA is right about everything, but they say there a not acceptable. A sloping back-cut actually increases the chance of the tree going over backwards. Physics happen to be laws, not opinions.
You flat out wrong on this one, and I'm not an insecure douchebag. Just calling out garbage. I totally agree with your other post though, the face notch is too shallow.
jimmyab17 10 months ago
@jimmyab17
The face notch has no function in this "fall"... It is far too small and shallow. The tree is upright as can be and would fall where you want it depending on the direction of the back cut and not the notch.
There are uses to sloped back cuts... That's why they have been used for a long time, even before chainsaws... There is a book called "a climber's best friend" where angled back cuts are visited in a chapter...
CactusWolf 10 months ago
@CactusWolf
Won't let me post links in the reply section so i PM a couple of them to you. One link is OHSA
s logging e-etool. The other link is to a thread that thoroughly goes over this subject with some good diagrams. If there is a book recommending that then it is definitely not a climbers best friend. I sorry but your dead wrong on sloping back-cuts. And yes sloping back-cuts are a sign of a novice. Sound's like you've just stayed at the novice ability level for 25 years.
jimmyab17 10 months ago
@jimmyab17 says:
"And yes sloping back-cuts are a sign of a novice. Sound's like you've just stayed at the novice ability level for 25 years."
Speaking like a true DOUCHEBAG my friend... Chivalry may be dead these days, but douchebaggery, veiled behind the cloak of anonymity certainly isn't...
I will end my correspondence with you on this note: It ALL depends on the lean angle of the tree, and the type of wood... Been a logger long enough to know my craft. Good bye.
CactusWolf 10 months ago
@CactusWolf
Read the links on the PM I sent you and tell me there wrong too. A Logger? anybody using sloping back-cuts would be fired from any side I've ever worked on.
jimmyab17 10 months ago
@jimmyab17 Occasionally I will cut the wedge the the top cut horizantal and the angle up from the bottom and slope the back cut to meet the hinge in line with the bottom of the wedge: Here's why. I'm up in a tree(50'or 60') and the top has a chance of contacting another tree before it has fallen all the way. Now the butt can slide off away from me instead of kicking back toward me. That is the only time I will slope a back cut.
naturefamily 7 months ago
note: you should never turn your back to a falling tree thats when they will get you
adamslogging 1 year ago
thanks for vid
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remmidemmi01 1 year ago
can see your a book man you mouth is not always the way you want your tree to go get back in the office you came out of thats a twig try cutting a tree with a 6foot bar on
hibbyhanky1 1 year ago
@hibbyhanky1 the man knows how to cut he started The Game Of Logging with Soren Ericson. Been training since all over the U.S. since I have been cutting with him twice.
treepete3 1 year ago
@hibbyhanky1 the man knows how to cut he started The Game Of Logging with Soren Ericson. Been training since, all over the U.S. since I have been cutting with him twice.
treepete3 1 year ago
Excellent Video, Thanks!
ninjamarky 1 year ago
Great video! Thanks for helping us take our bad trees down safely. We had some nasty trees that take over by growing hard up on good trees and then push them over. Now we have healthy good trees in our yard.
tinarose1972 1 year ago
I once "dominoed" 4 trees, I gunned them against their leans and a started on my back cut first and wedged them then did the face cuts last but on the starting tree I did the standard cutting technique and boom boom boom boom, I was impressed with myself, the trees where beetle killed pines.... but I noticed that this guy has a different technique than the people I know and work around, we do whats called a gunning cut which shows precisely where the tree is gonna land and deeper face cuts also.
EaglemanX3Gorilla 1 year ago
I hate someone who cut down trees, they are bastards. the earth need trees to surivive, and do you know what trees are? it is oxygen
94kricco 1 year ago
@94kricco All you have to do is plant another tree.. lol..
ghendric 11 months ago
o your ard lol
rhyskallen 1 year ago
u sucker why u want to cut a tree u sucker
nikjohn1997 1 year ago
@nikjohn1997 You want to konw why??? Theres all kinds of reasons for cutting trees, where I am from theres alot of forest area and there is a new killer thats taking more trees than anything... the Mountain Pine Beetle. Takeing out beetle killed trees to stop the spread is very important but whats more imoprtant the safty of me and my crew and any other crews when cutting down massive trees. Thats why someone would want to cut a tree.... or stopping a forest fire, that would be another reason.
EaglemanX3Gorilla 1 year ago
great video
utuberevlimitracing 1 year ago
I have to thank you for the info / video, I cut down my first tree that was leaning and it fell exactly where I needed it to. Thanks again!
sscaustic 1 year ago
I wish he had explained how to gun the open face cut. It's easy, but you might do it wrong unless somebody told you how.
geldhundt 1 year ago
Just amazing what youtube can do! Watched this video, went outside, and cut down a 8 m tall tree between a street lamp cable and our precious apple tree with a small opening. And it worked perfectly! :D
yoship2 1 year ago
Nice vid. Very helpful.
sugmegpls 1 year ago
american loggers
401bgRozs 1 year ago
Plant the trees back syco
blasterandsewsew 1 year ago
that face cut is a joke!
CaptainNensho 1 year ago
ich bin schwul
JaegerMaster14 1 year ago
we just took down a tyree too..
had a good plan was close to the house.
it was so close to wires we put a rope as high up on it as possible
wrapped the rope around the fence
pulled at the rope and kept it taight.
it leaned properly and is down thanks
lindapittsburgh 1 year ago
Holy smokes...I cut down 175 trees pretty much that size yesterday. Didn't spend wuite that much time planning each fall..hehehe. Went through five tanks of fuel in the mighty Husky 357xp. sharpened her once around midway through the day. Like a hot knife through butter. No wedges or stuff like that. I just cut a 25 or so foot pole before i start, and use it whenever needed which is very seldom. All good ideas there, but a fella needs production sometimes!
gregger66100 1 year ago
were fucking cutting trees here shush! im trying to be amazed cockaos!
lolalilacs 1 year ago
I just recently cut down a tree and applied everything discussed in this video. Everything worked out great! The tree fell exactly where I planned it to go. Great how to video! Thanks!
snowman123ist 1 year ago
You've got some of the basics down, but still have more to learn.
dkmatth 2 years ago
I had to cut someones tree down. I used shoe laces as i had no rope to lasso it. They snapped and the tree went over neighbours garden. I legged it.
TheOriginalBrightIs 2 years ago
Safe work and good instructions for beginners. But why, why, why do you americans always cut your trees by the knee...or higher ?
Swedish loggers used to have less payed if they cut higher than 3-4 inches about ground...
stavafredde 2 years ago
cause you cut the stump after
36crazyfists63 2 years ago
Cut it low the first time,and you won't have to cut it again.
chainsaw385 2 years ago
I doubt very much he is cutting those little trees for anything other than personal firewood.Still I agree,no need for a high stump.Cut that face a little deeper too.
chainsaw385 2 years ago
I am a logger. And I do know better. He said that it does not matter how deep the notch is. But it needs to be 1/3 of the diameter .
kg4bga 2 years ago
Also he pulled fibers! Not good with high grade trees (Veneer)
VEIWER313 2 years ago
You are never supposed to turn your back on a tree that is either falling or hung up! He completely let his eye off the tree as it was falling...definetly not good! Great video otherwise! I will make a few videos of trees falling.
VEIWER313 2 years ago
is everyone here loggers? cause everyone seems to think they know better.
Great video
Doggorunning 2 years ago 2
ii think the back cut should always come in about an inch higher than the hinge, not right at the hinge like he mentioned, it's safer.
iwillkrushu 2 years ago
@iwillkrushu /// that is right. By the book, it is 2 inches
kg4bga 2 years ago 2
Great video. Of course he used a small and easy tree as a demo, but the explanation was clear and practical. Some of the epxerts here ought to film their many exploits felling trees, if they think they know more than this man. He did a good job.
jeriwho 2 years ago 6
hehe,tyle ziomuś kombinował i mu nie poszło,nie trafił w czerwony cel
jointventure78 2 years ago
the hinge cut in this video looks like a lot smaller than 70 degrees. could someone comment on this? thanks.
goerizal 2 years ago
What if the plunge cut was at say a 15 degree angle down to the hinge. Would that help make the tree fall where you need it too? Would you need a wedge then?
ghendric 2 years ago
I am not the expert. See the info on Tim Ard in the description area of this video on how to contact him
rlagerstrom 2 years ago
no it will not, the back cut should be horizontal, a slant cut does not help a tree fall in any direction and should not be used.
savagenomore 2 years ago 4
if the back cut is slanting downward towards and end slightly above the hinge cut will this help keep the trunk from falling in the opposite direction through the blocking effect of the slanting cut?
goerizal 2 years ago
nope, doesn't help at all....
savagenomore 2 years ago
@goerizal I have seen a lot of people do that. But no it won't. By the way I have worked for Asplundah Tree Experts for 13 years.
kg4bga 2 years ago
@kg4bga asplundah has officially raped rhode island trees. i hope you don't work in rhode island.
nikesb2406 2 years ago
@ghendric The hinge would be too small and would risk not falling at all. The hinge would close before the tree has any good falling weight to pull itself over once the hinge has closed. Stick with 45 degrees
arbcare 11 months ago
Great Video!
Gravity is going to pull the tree in the direction it is leaning...if you want to conteract that..you need to use mechanical advantage ie the WEDGE
when you cut you create a lever
The hinge acts as a fulcrum with the backcut becoming the lever arms. So this is another reason to keep your notch shallow..giving your wedge more leverage. consider this..a 1 inch thick wedge with a 10inch backcut will move the tree 1 foot in 12 feet of height or 5 feet on a 60 foot tree.
stevesrt8 2 years ago 8
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heeeey... asshols you should protect the trees and not to cut them if you want your children to live ..
atogio2813 2 years ago
atogio2813 is such a little sissy. Trees can be planted, smart one. Men have been using wood "forever." Duh.
magic038 2 years ago 2
The only thin I'm confused about is how to put a hinge notch and find the back lean on a. Zombie comrade ? Some of them have terrible posture but some are straight as a board.how big do I have to make the notch.
XxDoNkEy 2 years ago
It's recommended to make the notch go about 1/3 of the way into a tree. Don't go any deeper than that because the tree could lean on the chainsaw bar and pinch it.
dukeheat 2 years ago 2
i don't get it, if you look for the natural lean of the tree and the direction it wants to fall, how can you make the tree land where you want? in other words....can i make any tree fall in any direction i want?
mikefutoob 2 years ago
if u r gunna cut a tree down look at the top of the tree whitch ever way it is leaning thats the way it is gunna go
huntinboy6996 2 years ago
even if the tree has a back lean you can still fell the tree against it's lean if you know how. just because it looks like it has to go one way does'nt mean it does.
colinmullis286 2 years ago 3
Thanks, used your method. Very effective.
brijsmith 2 years ago
Excellent Video
odmcarp 2 years ago
good info
gunman50cal 3 years ago
chainsaws rock!!!!!!!
lanesteele240 3 years ago 2
Hell yeah!
GearGrinder33 2 years ago
I lol'd
oct8gon 2 years ago
its a very good video just try not to ever turn your back on it
hardwoodslogger 3 years ago
Very nicely explained and demonstrated, Tim!
DavidN23Skidoo 3 years ago
You may not always need to be this precise but when you do wont it be nice to know you can. What he did in real time takes about ten minutes. Much less time than waiting for an ambulance or filing an insurance claim..
whobeyourdaddy 3 years ago
That was very Informative. Thanks for posting it.
Leelone 3 years ago 2
Unless you are dropping a tree by power lines, you don't have to be that dang accurate.
I thought he was going to climb in the tree with a tape measure and plum bob.
lilbudro 3 years ago
OK Bob Vila! Now do an advanced studies video on how to cut a tree leaning in one direction or with more weight on one side and get it to fall in the opposite direction.
Redhorse1959 3 years ago
I am about to cut a tree, thanks for putting this tutorial out there for us dummies! Much appreciated.
ardiecat 3 years ago
is the chainsaw u r using a 362
acdcguy34521 3 years ago
I used this technique and substituted my ax for the wedge and the tree came down exaclty where I wanted it to. It was a 20"+ birch.
r1skate 3 years ago
You cut down a tree less than 2ft high?
MRCHUPKE 3 years ago
No diamter.
r1skate 3 years ago
20" + I say that bad boy was pushing 23"
Another couple inches, and we could have mad a hammer handle
casel0ad 3 years ago
You might want to read my comment again.??
r1skate 3 years ago
ok read again...
casel0ad 3 years ago
My comment as you may see is not about the tree in the video. It was a testament to how good this very same technique for me personally. Of course since that time I have cut done much larger trees.
r1skate 3 years ago
excellent!! Very clear presentation, and expertly executed results. thanks
ochocopines 3 years ago
very educational 5*
J0Boa 3 years ago
very interesting
kermanparts 3 years ago
Wow, using a chainsaw is a defenite skill to be done effectively and safely. I just bought a chainsaw and started to cut down dead small trees for firewood only, but I just jumped in there. I found that the tree would usually pinch the blade, or my chain would completley stop in the tree, and other times it just took way to long to cut. One time i made a cut that was so crappy, that when I tried to push the tree down it just came out from the roots instead of breaking off from my cut lol. help!
brentnowell 3 years ago
trying notching it and go back bout 2 inches from yer cut and stick her in all the way and go out the back she should fall
justinman135 3 years ago
thank you
jschremser 3 years ago
Great work
draigcochfawr 3 years ago
Great tutorial, well done too!
LashoutUK 3 years ago 3
very good
joell56 3 years ago 2