New cutting technique explored

Kind of reminds me a beaver. This is a neighbor's house. She hired a nephew. First, this huge water oak was topped months ago because it was dead. All that was left was a huge stem. This sucker is big, 42 inch DBH. It was probably 25 ft tall remaining. First, he was trying to fell the bulk of the stem. He gnawed on that "felling cut" for a few days and I couldn't stand it anymore as I saw it each day on my errands. I finally stopped and told him I have a bigger saw (he has a Stihl 250) and that I think I can fell that tree (even with all his gnawing that he had done. He took me up on it. Apparently, I was diplomatic in my explanation and didn't accuse of him of being a beaver.

It was not my finest felling hour. My Stihl 400 chain needed sharpening and the cut was a bit higher than I would have liked but I was finally able to configure a decent notch and an adequate back cut such that the tree stem fell exactly where I wanted it, the exact opposite direction away from the concrete driveway, which would have been crushed by such a heavy tree.

He had simply told the lady that he would cut the entire tree up and haul it off. I was thinking, he is going to burn up this Stihl 250 on this tree, it will take weeks! He cuts a brick-size chunk each cut. I asked if he wanted me to take any and he said yes, so, I then bucked a few of those huge 42 inch rounds and we (barely) were able to roll them onto my trailer. I can noodle them but even doing that, it's been too dang hot.

After I finished all that, I told the two of them that I had had enough and my suggestion was to hire a tree service to haul off what's left. The rounds are bigger than I like to handle, as I work alone a lot and 42 inch oak rounds are just too dang heavy and cumbersome and I have tons of smaller stems awaiting me now at a prior scrounge. They are now trying to find somebody to do it within their budget, whatever that is. They should've had the first guy take it when he topped the tree. That is, assuming he had that capability. The guys I know here who can do it have skid steer loaders and big trailers.

The guy has continued to gnaw on the small end, taking a few bricks each day. I just don't think a Stihl 250 saw is meant for such a tree. Especially with his technique! He did this same type thing with another tree two years ago in her backyard and I had to rescue him then, too. And the funny thing is this guy thinks he is an expert with a saw. I am not joking, you should hear this guy talk. But at least he did listen to me.



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That poor trailer

 

I have no words.

 

I give the kid credit for work ethic! That’s doing it the hard way

 

It's during moments like these where I will inevitably say, "But honey! We can't afford NOT to buy a bigger saw!"

 

Wow, that's one of the worst cutting attempts I've seen yet.....

 

So just plunge a saw with a bar long enough to reach the center into the stump above the ground and walk it around in a circle. It's not going to fetch up as the sawdust will fill the gap left behind for support. Push the stump's muffin top over.
Or have the kid continue cutting splits out. Time to kill when you're young.

 

Got it beat! NOT MY WORK, but a friend of a friend. Dead white oak.

 

Yup, that's bad!

To me it seems that properly cutting down a tree is really a pretty simple operation... I mean even us "uneducated" loggers and firewood hacks have been doing it fairly proficiently for a long time now......
Why is it that in these days of so much "advancement" "knowledge" "information" and "technology" folks can't learn to do something that we were doing well in the dark ages?
But what do I know? I've only sawed down a few thousand trees, and I was never "certified" so obviously I'm not "qualified" to speak on the "science" of tipping trees over.....

 

Not yours, eh?

 

It’s creative. Not sure I understand the artistry of it but creative.

 

I’m all for cutting a tree down with the shortest bar possible but this isn’t the way to do it…

what you have described will only work if you walk the right way around the stump

 

First glance I thought someone set the round on some blocks.
He has some abstract art ability!

 

It's a little known fact that that is a perfect execution of the FellSplit technique.

 

Here's the thread
Another New Felling Technique?
I was asked to fell this tree which i said no as it was long dead with lots of widowmakers. On his first attempt he didnt finish and left the tree standing. I was asked a second time to take it down, but procrastinated enough so he came back and finished it. Im surprised it didnt finish him.

 

Wtf is that how does someone even get an idea to cut like that. Im sure if he actually knew how to use the saw itd be enough. I used my 490 to take apart a sugar maple close to that size a few years ago.

 

Holy plunge cut batman, I've never seen a butcher job that even comes close to that. Glad everyone is safe.

 

Looks like he's trying to do chainsaw art.