notaz3
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My son put countless rounds into a tree trying to "chop it down". Kept him entertained for days.
That's what I do, too. Ten or twelve feet sideways is pretty safe. Just stay on the uphill side of the horizontal trunk as it may roll when it falls.You probably have a pole saw. It's going to want to keep splintering but a pole saw standing off to the side start cutting at arrow. You'll be safe like that, and it won't take long.View attachment 783506
Maybe I'm missing something from what I see the tree is pretty much on the ground already, nothing hanging up anywhere, just cut it at the base and it will fall over. End of storyThis living ash tree fell over and made a nice barber chair in the last storm.
The more that I cut on it now, the more it wants to "stand up" and is making me very nervous.
It may not look like it, but the horizontal part of the tree is about 8 foot off the ground. Any more cutting on it will require me to stand on something.
I'm not happy with any option I can think of.
Any ideas??
The Mythbusters did it in style!Maybe tomorrow I'll try my 10ga!
I would first cut the piece that the arrow is on, then cut where the arrow is pointing.
Ruffdog said it the best way pretty straight forward. Start where the arrow is pointing, and it will fall without issue. yeah, a pole saw would be safer but you dont need it you could cut it with an axe if you want.This living ash tree fell over and made a nice barber chair in the last storm.
The more that I cut on it now, the more it wants to "stand up" and is making me very nervous.
It may not look like it, but the horizontal part of the tree is about 8 foot off the ground. Any more cutting on it will require me to stand on something.
I'm not happy with any option I can think of.
Any ideas??
Of course that bent tree bottom is not going to spring back to sorta straight again??Mountainbuck,
Cut as most people would by notching close to the ground, at point below the barber poling, at point ninety degrees from point tree is currently leaning. Back cut and tree will fall over on its side.