BeyondWedging; Dropping a Heavily Backweighted Tree

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PPE????

[DavidN23Skidoo]

You can lead a horse to water.... These are independent loggers, and they kind of follow their own rules. They know a lot of good techniques, and are great guys, but they need to make a few changes.

[DavidN23Skidoo]

Cutting more would have severed the hinge, which would have allowed the tree to go in the wrong direction, and with no control. They kept it in the woods without tearing up their equipment, without injuries, and they put it in the slot it was hinged to go in. They could have dropped it in the farmer's field easily, but that not only makes for an unhappy farmer, but also spreads bad will to all the surrounding farmers that this one would talk to. Happy landowner,no injuries, a good day.

[ticker511]

The skidder would have pushed it over , you just had to saw it a little more. It was lucking that it did't bust off the stump and come over backwards. Then when you used the main line, you should have saw'ed it a little more. the same time he was pulling it. Make it easy, not a job, took way to much time.