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Pigdog · 2nd January 2008, 08:26 AM

A couple of years back, a 2 or so acre lot next to my property was clear cut logged. They had one fellow who cut all the trees down with a chainsaw rather than a skidder mounted saw.
I've always found that kind of work to be interesting so I watched that fellow cutting down those trees. The lot had quite a few large yellow pines as well as medium size oak and sweetgum trees.
I was amazed at how fast that sawyer was taking down those trees! I never bothered or talked to that guy, just watched. When he first started cutting, I saw him stick a couple of trees into other trees (the woods was pretty thick) and watched how he solved his situation by cutting other trees into those hung trees, causing them all to come crashing down. That guy never missed a beat! When he came up by my property, I noticed he never cut notches or wedges but was making 3 cuts and those trees were falling just where he wanted them to fall. It looked like he was cutting a triangle around the base of the tree (3 cuts). When came up to my property line, he acknowledged me by a friendly nod but never asked me to move. None of the trees barber poled! None of the trees fell across my property line!
Now he did do plunge cutting on the larger pines and possibly wedges but they were at the other end of the lot so I couldn't see exactly what he was doing but those near my property were not cut with a traditional hinge.
Anyone here ever use a technique like that or could explain what technique he may have been using?
I'm still scratching my head!

2nd January 2008, 08:26 AM	#1 (permalink)
Pigdog Semi-mature vigorous tree Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: USA Posts: 65	Felling technique A couple of years back, a 2 or so acre lot next to my property was clear cut logged. They had one fellow who cut all the trees down with a chainsaw rather than a skidder mounted saw. I've always found that kind of work to be interesting so I watched that fellow cutting down those trees. The lot had quite a few large yellow pines as well as medium size oak and sweetgum trees. I was amazed at how fast that sawyer was taking down those trees! I never bothered or talked to that guy, just watched. When he first started cutting, I saw him stick a couple of trees into other trees (the woods was pretty thick) and watched how he solved his situation by cutting other trees into those hung trees, causing them all to come crashing down. That guy never missed a beat! When he came up by my property, I noticed he never cut notches or wedges but was making 3 cuts and those trees were falling just where he wanted them to fall. It looked like he was cutting a triangle around the base of the tree (3 cuts). When came up to my property line, he acknowledged me by a friendly nod but never asked me to move. None of the trees barber poled! None of the trees fell across my property line! Now he did do plunge cutting on the larger pines and possibly wedges but they were at the other end of the lot so I couldn't see exactly what he was doing but those near my property were not cut with a traditional hinge. Anyone here ever use a technique like that or could explain what technique he may have been using? I'm still scratching my head!