I think axeman might have been suggesting trying to knock it loose with that shagbark foreground left.
Oh yeah, that left Naw. That's a nice healthy shag. A ton of awesome firewood for sure, but I like to be a good steward of this woods. I've got enough trees that need to be cut up.
Yup that's what I was hinting at. I still have never been able to add a shag to my scrounge/hoard. Plenty of mockernut though.
I found a nice dead standing shagbark down by the uprooted basswood. It's nowhere near as big as the beast in the pic by the widowmaker, but it's a good bit of wood . There's a standing dead cherry too. All right there. There's always work to be done. The basswood is all cut up. It just needs to be hauled and split.
So i cut down the hanger at my house this weekend, admittedly alone so i could not video it. 60 ft tall cherry, roughy 8-10 inches in diameter, broke of and leaning about 20 feet up. Leaning portion at about 11:00, so a fair amount of pressure on trunk. I cut the trunk at about a 120 degree angle from the angle of the lean above, so not quite perpendicular. large notch, slow back cut, fell right where I planned it. Slow cut on back cut allowed the notch to maintain integrity. The top fell back over on itself, and since I let the notch break slow, I was free and clear. Another down without a scratch. Simple suggestion for the group is to draw a stick diagram of the hang up and what ways you think the forces are being applied. The direction of the fall should take the larger of the forces into account an will help you in making a proper cut. The connection integrity above you is a judgement, but slow cuts and some forethought will make you a king
