How to wedge a small tree. Method # 4. This method is safest method for those with less experience .
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- Опубліковано 21 лип 2024
- This video demonstrates another method for wedging a small tree. It is the fourth video I have done on this subject. I decided to demonstrate this method because some of you mentioned it. This is not a method used in commercial timber falling, because it has several steps to it and would be slow and unproductive. I recommend this method as the absolute safest and best method for tree services falling small trees beside a house or property owners who have little experience reading the lean of a tree and falling it. For those with little experience falling trees. I recommend you practice boring with your bar tip first. Just practice on a round of wood until your comfortable boring into a tree with the saw. I also recommend you watch the video on kickback safety. One last suggestion. If you are using this method to cut a tree that is near a structure, it is very advisable to put a rope in the tree and use a pickup to put tension on the rope. Then use this method in combination with a rope tied up high on the trunk of the tree.
This man spreads so much knowledge that from times to times i try to rewatch all the videos over again!
Thankyou for the nice review. I am very happy that you are getting good value out of these videos. That is definitely what I strive to do. Just share with all of you, the things that I have learned over time.
Really appreciate the effort you put in to sharing your knowledge. This was very informative and I really enjoyed it. Thanks for sharing.
Your most welcome! Glad you enjoyed the video.
Thank you. Great method for a newbie like myself.
You are most welcome!
Dan is a surgeon with his saw.
Extremely precise cuts and makes it look so easy (which it definitely isn’t)
Thanks for the compliment JS. I have just had lots of practice. I think that's all this stuff really comes down to. Lots of practice.
Nice trick to keep in the "toolbox "
Really liked how you bore cut the middle so the wedge wouldn’t bottom out good trick to know.
Thanks Dan
Your welcome. I am glad you liked the video.
Great video
Very much appreciated. You do a great job shutting the saw down and explaining what you did and the steps. I’ve watched a lot of videos of guys trying to talk over a saw.
Thanks. I'm glad you liked the video. I agree... it is better to turn the saw off and talk !
Thats a good technique for cutting smaller trees. Thank you for sharing.
Thanks
Always the go-to channel not just for doing the right thing, but, more importantly, understanding WHY one does it a certain way. Really a master-class in gr8 technique. TY.
Thanks...I'm glad your getting value out of the videos
Thanks so much. Have hundreds of smaller trees to fell and always struggled with wedging them over.
Your most welcome
This is my favorite technique, great videos again man you do a great job!
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Greetings from Northern California !
Nice work Dan.
I’ll give this method a run soon on some hardwood in my area 👊
I wish you well on you hardwood cutting. Hardwood tends to be a little trickier. Keep an eye on the where the limb weight is and not just the lean. The limb weight on hardwoods can be extreme!
Thanks for taking the time to demonstrate a technique you normally don't even use. That's cool that you are sharing something, just for us to see. It was helpful for me, especially the little bits about cutting a little wider so you don't hit your wedge - if you have enough tree width. Little skinny tall trees, especially back leaners in the wind, can be a pain , because you don't have much room for your wedge, and always end up nipping the wedge with your saw, or slamming the wedge into part of the hinge. So, thanks. I usually bore from the "wrong" side though ... heh heh ... through the wedge/open face.
That is a good idea. As long as they have enough thickness to lift the tree a fair amount. I suppose a person could double up 5 or 6 inch wedges just as well as any other wedges.
Your welcome. I am glad it was helpful. Yes back leaners in the wind when you have tall skinny trees, is a pain in the butt ! No fun there !
Thanks! Nice job and great explanation.
Pretty Slick!!!!!
Thanks - useful !
This is no doubt the best video I’ve found on wedging a small tree for the weekend warrior. Thanks! You got a new sub.
I am glad you liked the video. Thanks for subscribing!
Coinncidence? After learning how to bore cut (at long last) i encountered several vids about this technique. This was among the best. Almost all of the trees I must fell are "small" but that doesn't mean "easy" or that the consequences of failure aren't all bad.
Thanks, Brother, for thinking of us.
Your welcome. I am glad it was useful.
I like these type vids. thanks!
Your welcome
Thanks!
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I have a small white pine (12-14") with some back lean, I'm gonna give this a shot this weekend! Thanks man, great work out there. Stay safe.
Glad you found the video helpful... stay safe out there!
excellent tutorial
great explanation
Your welcome... glad you enjoyed the video
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and experience I will be trying this technique for sure on small back leaning white birch here in Vermont love your Chanel
I'm glad you like the channel. I hope everything goes ok cutting the white birch👍
great!
Thanks
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I can just see me giving this ago, not making enough room for clearance on the wedge, the tip of the saw hitting the wedge as i am doing the side cuts, the chain grabbing the wedge and spitting it out of the back of the tree...
Awesome content. Sub'd.
What about using shorter 5" wedges for small trees?
Using smaller wedges on small trees is a good idea. It is always a pain if the wedge hits the hinge and does not tip the tree over. In that case just double up wedges that should do the trick.
@@norcaltimberfaller1943 thanks for the response. I cut excess fuels and burned timber in Colorado. Most trees are 14" and smaller. Clearing 5-20 acres of burned timber, I end up pushing a bunch of them. Not the safest, but get it down quick. Really like your straight forward and useful videos. Keep it up. Stay safe out there.
Thanks, I am glad you are enjoying the videos
Hey what wood lends itself well to making wedges..if a guy wanted to make sacrificial wedges? I've done a few with similar techniques but on the odd occasion where angles and or multiple trunks on a cluster are involved a couple sacrificial wedges might be the ticket.
I think Douglas Fir is about the best for that. Hardwood splits to easy and Redwood or White Fir are a bit to soft. Doug Fir is middle of the road.
Hi Dan: quick Q: how do commercial loggers define what a "small" tree is? 12" diameter or such? Thx.....D
anything 8 to 16 inches diameter is in the ( small tree range)
Is there any advantage to using a conventional cut instead of a humbolt cut with this wedge technique? I recently cut a couple smaller trees (12 inch diameter) with my nephew. Would have been good to use this technique when we needed to cut a bit more off the holding wood and the tree's weight came back on the saw. (just a 1/2 second too much cutting) Tree wasn't in danger of going the wrong way, but ended up needing to pull it over with a rope. Wedging it over through a center bore cut would have been so much better.
I think their is an advantage to using a conventional cut here. The main advantage is that if you start the bore cut in the back of the tree, then you do not have to perfectly match the bore cut with the face cut. Just come in a inch or so above the bottom cut and everything is good. Also having that inch or so step in the back cut helps a little on the wedging.
@@norcaltimberfaller1943 that makes complete sense. Thanks for the reply. Learning a lot from you.
Hi Dan: question on this: the bore through to the face cut--still about 1 or so inches above the "v" of the fact cut for the hinge wood?? Or, direct into the V? Thx in advance!
I think your talking about the conventional face cut and boring through it in order to place the wedge in the back. In that case it makes the most sense to raise your back cut up about one inch and then bore out through the face.....
@@norcaltimberfaller1943 Thank you. That's what I thought I saw. Stay well Dan.
Does your chainsaw need repair and maintenance ?
What am I seeing here? It looks like he's bore cutting using the kickback zone, what am I missing?