it sure couldn't travel very far. not much beyond 45 degrees. lucky it didn't shoot back at him. stumps tell a story. I have a friend in church that calls those jelly stumps. he is EMT, volunteer. He says the folks they have to put into body bags from work like that are just a sack of jelly. Kinda have to roll them in to get them zipped up. good teachers stumps are.
thats ugly for sure! I watched a guy drop a tree a week ago, actually worse than that! He had no clue, so I was FAR away. Cut the notch, then started the back cut. Halfway through struggling to cut it with a dull chain, he switched to a plunge cut. He then proceeded to cut all but about 15% of the hinge, so the tree rolled off the stump and almost hit the house.
I just told my wife to come in here and look at the picture of this stump, she's not a wood cutter at all , not in any way, but, her first comment, after she gasped, was, ''you've got to be kidding me''!! And, she was dead serious!!
Sad, but I've seen several like that. I remember the first time I watched someone cut a tree like that. I stood way back and just shook my head. Afterward I asked why he cut it that way. "Because that is how my father always did it." Okay...
Hanging out in the patio, I have heard some examples of poor stump ratings from the sounds of the dueling dull chainsaws of the neighbors.
