Felling A "LEANER"

[Music] [Music] [Music] today we're going to show you guys how to use a rope come along take our half inch rope looking through your pulling end go through this so the tail comes through the ball of course we added Shiv to basically get the operator away from the top of the tree because the tree is relatively tall and it's going to land it's gonna lay within 10 feet so if something ever happens it gets the operator way in this trees got a lot of lean into it today is pretty windy and we were gonna just hook the rope into it and pull it over with all the tops on and everything but better safe inside there's a powerline there's a house there's no $30,000 for that over there it's not worth the risk amount of time it takes to take the top off and whatnot it's less time than it takes to fix any of those things so we're going to show you what we kind of do I'm going to show you the situation and show you how it's leaning and where I'm gonna be aiming basically we can hit this guy get a good look at the tree it's gonna it's got a kind of an awkward lean it's leaning towards and other patch of trees over here so it's kind of on an angle from way we want to be so we're gonna have to change where we aim because the sights in the saw aren't gonna be necessarily where the where the tree is going to land we're gonna end up having to kind of leave the tree one way or the other way so that way it hits where we want to hit because if it had all it had all that extra weight on it and it starts to go I have to bring it another an extra 30 degrees farther than where I need to bring it so it's got that much more movement so I could break a hinge and then the feet if one hinge one saw the hinge is a little bit bigger than the other side then it could end up breaking that and the whole thing twisting falling and hitting a power line or hitting half so this one we're gonna do I'm gonna make a pretty good-sized open at least 90 degrees if not more face cut and what I'm gonna do also is pour into the tree and do a plunge cut get it so that I have about probably an inch hinge max because I don't have any weight up top it's basically just gonna be the rope come along pulling getting him to go over and me eating it with some wedges just to be sure just in case if something happens to the rope let's see what happens [Music] [Music] what you end up doing is I gotta make at least a 90-degree opening here cuz the trees to fall at least 90 degrees if not more I want it to kind of break off while the trees still in the air so that way it will fall mostly level instead of our proms up top hitting then hitting the ground and when you're doing a you doing hinge something wrong thumbs of how big to make the hinge or how far we want to be at least on this half of the center of gravity to help if something happens and it can rest back on to my back cut and if it's 80% that means I got relatively a good amount of wood to holding capacity and the thickness of your the thickness of your hinge should be around probably an inch or about 10% of the 10 percent of the diameter of the whole entire tree this guy's about a 16 so is about is about 1.6 inches but he doesn't have anything on top so I can make a little smaller just because I'm gonna have to overcome and break that one-inch boy that I'll even do I finally mean make sure that the tree is in line we want to go and he's just on the pulley side of that little thing hopefully make it so hit that we're gonna have Ryan tighten up the boy go ahead Ryan when I'm gonna be boring into this into this tree I can either decide to do it so that I'm on my attack side of my bar is on the inside or it's on the back the back cut side and on this one I'm gonna be on so that way those saws gonna be kind of forced me to my back strap so that way if I had it on this side of the tree what would end up happening is the saw would try and force me to go into my hand and then I could end up cutting my hinge especially seeing how I'm on the side of the tree where I want to end over here so what I'm gonna do is there's way more raiment room here and I'm gonna in the Sun and the light for filming is better on this side so I'm gonna come in right through here bore right into the tree go through the whole entire tree come up and get the desired hinge thickness I want and then set up my backup [Music] a two and a half inch by about an inch back strap right here holding this is my wood that's holding the whole entire tree up so I can get my wedges in there and whatnot tighten up my my pole line and then push it over in this situation don't worry about cutting your hinge off you can take your saw go above or below I'm gonna go in this situation I'm gonna go below so that way the thing doesn't grab my saw and bring it up and over with it if you go above it what would end up happening is you can have a little bit of wooden here too and the whole thing to take away but if I go on the bottom side here it's gonna break away from the stump and then leave my saw in the stumble if somewhere doesn't happen ok tighten it up [Applause] [Music] well you can automatically see what ended up happening this is a way to tell how how big your hinge was with relationship to how big it should have been when you start to have fiber pole like this that means that you have too much wood on your hinge so I did see you always have something in the center especially if you if your bar is pretty close to the same diameter of your of your tree that you're trying to cut a lot of times you'll have a little bit left inside so what you're going to want to end up doing is this is where you get to practice a little bit and you get to get to see exactly what works what doesn't work and you can see we're right on cue I think our little thing went flying somewhere yep so we hid it so no problem that was easy basically I counted for about three feet extra this way for lean so that way the tree would hit exactly what I wanted to do because we had a little bit lean that I had I had to account for and basically the back strap weren't perfect I had to inch by about an inch right here and it was a little corner so I had that really dive right in there and get it to what we had to do but that's it simple and easy and always never leave spikes like this I don't know how many people with you ever hunting in the woods or you're doing things hiking or whatnot and you go to sit down on stump because you're tired these things will poke you and they could actually kill you so go through cut all your cut all your little stickers but top branch with malayani grooving [Applause] [Music]

Channel: Top Branch Tree Service

Views: 983,829

Rating: 4.7757344 out of 5

Keywords: Oak leaning wrong way, tree fails, how to cut a tree leaning, cutting a leaning tree, how to fell trees, how to use a rope come-along, top branch, casey elmer, elmer brothers, cutting trees, being an arborist, how to be a logger, getting started in logging, tree service, how to start a tree service, top branch tree service, cutting a tree that leans, step cuts, arborists, felling in different situations, tree removal, tree cutting, cutting a tree with a lean

Id: CRIdXVzlbvI

Length: 9min 34sec (574 seconds)

Published: Thu Aug 31 2017

Reddit Comments

[u/theduffy12]

Seeing professional tree climbers always reminds me of the not so professional "Narcoleptic Tree Cutter."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZCD-Mu-ZXQ

[u/cainrok]

All I have to say is if have a tree that’s close to anything or is a leaner have a pro do it. It’s not worth your life or property.

[u/kellydean1]

But tell me, why the didn't those people move their cars? It shouldn't have even been a topic of discussion.

[u/6petabytes]

"at least a 90 degree opening". Not even close to 90.

[u/PM-UR-BRAZILIANS-HUE]

He says to never leave fiber spikes like that in tree stumps but i didnt quite get the reason, can anyone explain why?

[u/mrmilf]

if he is already climbing it and dropping sections why doesnt he just section up the whole tree rather that felling it.. way less risk, and you are already up the tree

[u/samm1t]

Money shot at 7:25, for the impatient.

[u/Mario_Mendoza]

excellent video

[u/Moveover33]

I didn’t understand a word he said,