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How to Fell a Windblown Tree

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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/
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Swear words – when I was taught English a hunter would be proud if someone told him that he was a real Nimrod – these days Nimrod means idiot / fool.
Likewise, if someone always told the truth he could be proud, now, because of those "truthers", if we say of someone that he tells the truth, ok, a liar he is!!

Sablatnic

February 5, 2017

I witnessed a hung up tree being felled.. we had no choice but to fell the holding tree.. the direction in which the hung up tree was planned on going with the holding tree didn't work.. the outcome was the held up tree twisting on decent to the escape route.. resulting in the man getting a serious thump. but luckily survived.

Wally The Rapper

February 6, 2017

good video.. thanks

Wally The Rapper

February 6, 2017

yea, ive bound them together on some occasions, also pull on holding. Myself, am very fond of/ ALWAYS SET ROPE / very few "sorry I did". GOOD ins. almost always…Worth it(time/work. I guess my #1 rule…Set a rope. Can seem ridiculous sometimes, but fuck it. Hey GOOD LUCK

adam vesely

March 2, 2017

How many chair/compression compromises at the stump have u  LUCKED through? Idunno.i don't want a big saw unless must.File ur dogs etc whatever.My saw fucking CUTS , right. I don't find "long bar" solution…"real"      Good Luck to you

adam vesely

March 2, 2017

I have safely fallen thousands of hung up trees over the past 25 years, almost all with 66 Stihl's,  .404 chain on 33 or 36 inch bars.  Rarely had any tools other than my saw, axe ( 4lb Arvika or 7lb Trojan) and a pouch full of wedges so I would have to get the tree to spin itself down by well thought out wood removal, often requiring long angular cuts which are easier and safer with more bar.  If it was limb bound   I work on the BC coast where the 36" bar was the normal for most guys but now 33" is more common, though my 44" still gets the call once in a while.  Super sharp dogs are not so important with the species that I fall, (fir, cedar and hemlock), just a sharp chain and some knowledge.

danny sulyma

March 2, 2017

Phil's an angry man… LOL Yup.. Cramps!

Charlie Talmadge

March 19, 2017

And notice Phillip's incorrect use of the word "of"! Correctly spelt, but the word "have" would probably HAVE been the correct word for him to use!

Sablatnic

March 19, 2017

Has it taken you a month to come up with this? You are a pathetic and tedious little man.

Philip Larkinabout

March 19, 2017

No, but I just wanted to make sure the word "of" hadn't been given a new and confusing meaning. Seems it hasn't, so your grammar isn't correct too – what is your excuse? Not having English as your first language either?

Sablatnic

March 19, 2017