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Careful out there. Looks like you’re into some decent sized wood. At risk of telling you things you already practice, always keep glancing up, never fall into standing wood, and make sure you always have 2 clear ground escape paths as perpendicular to the direction of fall as possible. I’ve had a couple doozers over the years. The worst of which when discovering that the intended holding wood was just a decayed shell. Or trying to solve an unintended limb-tie that stopped the tree before it fell 45 degrees. And it’s defs a good idea to make sure you have a friend, cellular comms, a combat application tourniquet and a few Swedish dressings.
Thanks, I appreciate that. It's always the 8-10" diameter ones that give me issues. They are too heavy to just shove over and too small to get a wedge in behind the saw.
I’m not on the tools anymore for work but our crews often use a small lead shot bag with a tag line and a launcher to pull a larger bull rope up and through a sufficiently high branch set for an easy straight pull assist, or a redirect through a 5:1 pulley assembly. You can do a manual slingshot toss between the legs forward (see YouTube), or use an elastic launcher to help if you’re doing lots of leaners. One of the guys at work that does roping a lot near electrical transmission lines even adapted his potato gun to do precision shot bag shots lol. It’s pretty cool. But you can get the basic kit at arborist suppliers online. Nothing is better than being in the bush.
Stay safe!
Meh I didn’t fall on you or the barn.
I prefer the hinge cut angled on the bottom and flat-horizontal on the top like this
https://www.osha.gov/etools/logging/manual-operations/felling/cuts/back/humbolt
Excuse the link, it was the best drawing I could find