On Sun, 23 Aug 2015 00:01:25 +0000 (UTC), Doug Miller
wrote:

Electric Comet wrote in news:mra337$26i$2@dont-
email.me:

On Sat, 22 Aug 2015 13:37:39 +0000 (UTC)
Doug Miller wrote:

Whoever cut that, obviously knows nothing at all about felling a tree.

it is possible they know a lot
but what they know is all wrong

That's not meaningfully different from knowing nothing at all. I repeat, whoever cut that
obviously knows nothing at all about felling a tree. Look at the picture again: there's one cut.

Just one.

One horizontal cut about 90% of the way through the trunk, before the tree snapped off and
fell in the direction it would obviously fall.

You're *supposed* to notch it on the side you want it to fall toward: *two* cuts, not one, like
this:

Then make a horizontal cut from the other side, above the notch, and the tree falls toward
the notch.
Unless it is grossly overbalanced the other way, in which case it just
"kicks" and still falls toward the lean. anyway.