In part 3 David Rossney makes chainsaw cuts to a tree so it falls where he wants. He also deals with a common problem, a "hung up" tree, where the surrounding trees stop it falling as planned.
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Transcript
David Rossney: That's good. All right, spot on.
OK. So, this is the first part of the felling process, and I've put in what we call a sink, or a directional notch, or a cheese cut, or a gob cut, or, I can't think, there are about a dozen names.
What it's doing is it's giving me a nice opening, which when the tree starts to move later on, will close up and allow the tree to fall forward. And it's also giving me a nice straight line at the back, and that's one that I'm going to line up on when I do my back cuts so I get a nice parallel hinge.
As I said before, it's the wood that you don't cut that gives you the control over the felling operation. I've aimed this opening to tie with the nearest thing I've got to a gap in the sky to put this tree through, so that I can actually get the tree to rest at an angle and not be sitting upright.
But from now on, I think I'm going to have to get you into a safer place than you're at, at the moment. [laughs] OK.
[sound of chainsaw]
OK. It's balancing on some branches at the moment, but it's resting. OK, so this is what we would call a hung up tree. It hasn't finished falling to the floor, and now we've got two options. We either have to twist it to dislodge it, or we have to move the bottom bit of it outwards until the top can come free and fall to the floor.
But, at the moment what's happening is that the hinge is doing its job of just keeping the tree moving forwards and backwards. So, what I'm going to do next is I'm going to adjust the shape of the hinge. So, instead of it being a bar shape, I'm going to try to make it into a peg shape.
That will allow me to do some twisting, and hopefully that will be enough to get the tree to rest against the group over there. Then I'll have a much better chance of scooting the back out.
[sound of chainsaw]
OK. So, let's see about this now. All right. Try it the other way. Can't give up.
[sound of tree falling]
All right. That's about half way down, so it's slowly getting there. I'll just make a severing cut here to get the tree off the stool.
[sound of chainsaw]
Now, this is a bit like pulling teeth really. Eventually it goes. OK, hooray. [laughs] Good.
What always surprises me even now is that you can do that; you can pull a tree all the way down through the canopy amongst other trees. And when you look back, you think, "How did that get there? There's no gap." There's usually very little damage to the other trees.
There's a little gap here next to this ash tree, and to my eyes, that's looking much healthier already. So, job done. [laughs] OK.
Comments on this video 9 so far
excellent video fella:). Im a self employeed Arborist. I have many NPTC's. Including c.s.31,32.cs.38,39,40,41. Brushwood chipper,pole pruner hedgetrimmer/chainsaw. And a few others. Hope to see some more mate im from the great UK to
that was at small tree i started felling those trees when i was 12 year old not lieing. im felling big oaks now and im 16 years old
Again thanks for great information.
felling windblowen trees.
can you make a video showing a dog cut please?
My husband and I both trained with David - he is an excellent teacher - always calm and controlled! We highly recommend him!
I enjoyed watching this, I'm a self-taught woman thinning out a pine forest we've rented for horse grazing, trees we've taken out go for our own fire wood stack :)
My fiance fells the bigger ones, I've worked up to felling about the size you've dropped. Any bigger is kinda scary :p
Strangely compelling.
Thanks for showing how it can be done in a calm and controlled manner. I didn't realise there was so much to it!
Would love to know the name of the metal bar tool you were using... looks like a very useful item... Please let us know!