bigshea13

ash here are the main culprits. their straight grain and sizeare the main reasons. if your saw is dull and you dont bore cut the result is that the tree falls faster than you are able to cut it. you try to stay there and keep cutting when finally the section of hing is too big to snap and too small to hold the weight of the tree in its increasingly horizontal position........it splits up the trunk... when the tree hits the canopy forces the trunk sometimes backwards over the stump. when i first started out we were cuttingon a flat. the trees had no leans. I fell several large ash that consistantly chaired. the reason was.....however you lookat it.....either the fact that i didnt bore cut or my saw was dull{not allowing me to keep up with fall.