Andy Dingley wrote:
On 12 Apr 2005 08:15:48 GMT, wrote:

Thus all we needed to
do was rope the trees to ensire they fell the way we wanted

This is very difficult to do. There's a significant risk of them
"kicking". Instead of your rope pulling them to the left, the base

Which is why (as I said in another post) I do the 'proper' cut a notch
one side and then above the notch from the other side. The rope was
just to assist a little in falling the right way, the 'hinge' does
most of the work.


goes out to the right instead. This is especially the case for skinny
trees like Leylandii being cut halfway up.

As I said there was no way I was going to try and cut it half way up,
all of ours cut at (or near) the bottom have fallen pretty well as
expected with the bottom staying attached by the 'hinge' until it hit
the ground. The worst miss we had just wobbled an unused television
aerial slightly as it went a few degrees away from exactly where it
was intended to drop.


Using a chainsaw while half way up a tree is a *very* skilled/dangerous
occupation

It's just not possible for mere mortals. Doing it safely needs a
top-handle saw, and you're not even allowed to buy / hire a top-handle
unless you have a current ticket.

Oh yes, I'd fogotten that bit of it.

Actually I remember now that we did do some trimming of the first few
Leylandii that we felled from a scaffold tower but that was only
trimming. I always actually felled the tree by cutting at ground
level. It's not exactly easy to 'escape' from a scaffold tower if
something goes wrong.

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Chris Green