How to Fell a Windblown Tree
By woodlandstv
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Andrew Mead, forestry expert/instructor/assessor, shows us how to make safe a windblown tree using a chainsaw and hand winch. This is a potentially hazardous scenario and Andy talks us through the various cuts needed to ensure the tree moves in a controlled way - to avoid danger and to release the tree without damage to its fibres. http://www.lynhertraining.com/
An Adliberate film http://www.adliberate.co.uk for WoodlandsTV http://www.woodlands.co.uk/tv
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wonderfully done
A longer bar on your saw, (perhaps a larger saw), would increase the fallers safety by allowing him/her to stand slightly farther away where you can better observe the tree above, where half of the danger lives. Dead limbs, (widow makers), are impossible to hear falling over the saw noise so one must rely on ones vision to be able to avoid anything falling from above.
Yes but some forests there is restrictions on what you can take in there and how big your equipment is
all that work and the tree is small. have you ever watched logger logging tree's 4 feet and up all day log? why not use the tractor to yard the tree down out of the tree's ,if you can get one there to haul the log out when its down you could have used it to yank the tree down. also no protection of the tree you had the cable tightened up against
I have rolled trees of the stump roughly the same size using a peavey with a four foot handle.
He's one of those 'yeah' blokes … yeah? It's bad safety to stick the nose of the chainsaw into the tree because you'll get a kickback.
rendering
when that happens my dad puts some tannerite to take the tree out…
@Sablatnic Not swear words. Language evolves all the time. Otherwise we would all still be grunting.
Very helpful thanks.
WoodyJim
June 1, 2016