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Pigdog · 3rd January 2008, 08:32 AM

I believe Eric described best what I saw as it seemed like he only was making 3 cuts! The direction of fall was towards the thick end of the wedge shaped hinge. I was more impressed at the time with how quickly he was moving from tree to tree! I should have paid more attention to how he was cutting.
I also read and article about what is called a kerf dutchman that sounds close if I'm understanding it correctly.
The trees I saw him cutting like that were pulp wood size trees. The larger timber wood trees he cut were across the lot and I couldn't see that much of what he was doing. He did spend more time on them as I recall.
The large trees close to the other fenceline were leaning towards the fence and they used the skidder and a cable on those.

3rd January 2008, 08:32 AM	#7 (permalink)
Pigdog Semi-mature vigorous tree Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: USA Posts: 65	Re: Felling technique I believe Eric described best what I saw as it seemed like he only was making 3 cuts! The direction of fall was towards the thick end of the wedge shaped hinge. I was more impressed at the time with how quickly he was moving from tree to tree! I should have paid more attention to how he was cutting. I also read and article about what is called a kerf dutchman that sounds close if I'm understanding it correctly. The trees I saw him cutting like that were pulp wood size trees. The larger timber wood trees he cut were across the lot and I couldn't see that much of what he was doing. He did spend more time on them as I recall. The large trees close to the other fenceline were leaning towards the fence and they used the skidder and a cable on those.