The heartwood of even an otherwise sound tree is sometimes weak. The feller
will plunge the saw into the center of the tree, sweeping the nose left and
right so that the stress of falling won't leave a couple feet of fractured
heartwood standing proud of the rest of the cut.

These folks call it stump pull.
http://web.cocc.edu/logging/szlinks/stump_pull.htm

"Tom Veatch" wrote in message
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On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 12:48:11 -0500, "George" george@least wrote:

He's making money. A heart pull is hundreds of bucks.

He said, demonstrating his ignorance for the world to see, "Can anybody,
in
simple terms, tell me what a 'heart pull' is????"


Tom Veatch
Wichita, KS USA