Notch or not

I got in some more cutting today. Looking for advice opinions on the tree you see leaning in the pic. I got a feeling notching it might be a bad idea. All the ash trees are dying the ash borer got them all.

This one is next on the list maybe. Im sure it has a little rot in the middle the one next to it did my concern with the way its leaning and the weight toward the one side if it does have a little rot things could get hairy

So notch it or just start cutting till it starts going over your thoughts its the one further back in the pic

 

Cut it on the back side u got a hell of a lean in the right direction.

 

Notch it and then bore cut the back cut. Save it from possibly barber chairing on you. Good luck.

 

Although with split like that it could barber chair on u to had to look at the picture again.

 

Barber chair? Sorry, if I sound like a newb.

That one looks like if you notch it, then backside cut that it may start coming down before you get to the back. Maybe a really shallow notch, then go to the back side?

Would a plunge cut on the back be safer?

Just trying to learn more

 

That's why you bore cut or plunge cut like you say. But you still want a notch.

 

Barber chaired trees can be very dangerous.

 

Oh god. Yeah, that's bad. So, in that case either the barber chaired tree, the notch wasn't really made at all, just a single cut. All that energy had to go somewhere.

I've always notched trees the direction I mean to drop them.

 

I had a ash tree do that to me scared the chit right out me .not fun .

 

Notch it steep and deep.

 

Thats what im hoping to avoid. Im going to do some more studying on it still i have others to cut too I can come back to it later

 

I have one even worse than this one. It looks like a backward C and its leaning too. I will take a pic of it

 

Put a very open and shallow notch on the compression side. Like 100-120 degrees. Bore cut if you can or back cut very carefully and get the heck out as soon as you can if you hear or see any movement. Leaner=killers!!!

 

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I like this notch description. If I think the center of the hinge is weakened by rot I'll leave the hinge thicker than normal. With a leaning Ash I do not do anything except a bore cut.

 

I like mike b's description too.

You definitely don't want to get to far in on a wedge cut. I payed attention in school during physics class. Good stuff.

 

Not saying or recommending my style over any others but with leaners I like to make a shallow notch and use the coos bay triangle cut.

 

Coos bay triangle cut?

 

I had to look it up too. On the right..

 

Thanks.

 

I would do a shallow face cut and a short back cut and then pull that sucker over.