Help felling a hang up tree

[cornucopia72]

We want to thank you all again. The hanged tree is safely resting on the ground.  My wife and I headed to the parcel yesterday because we were worried about a trespasser getting hurt if the tree decide to fell at the wrong time (the $10,000 OSHA fine was also a motivator to take  "vacation" day off).  We anchored the come-along at the base of a sturdy tree about 100' away in the general direction that we though would be easiest to pull.  The tree was about 400' uphill from were we parked the truck.  We decide to try the rope first (I could not find a 1" rope so we were using a ¾" one) because he didn't want to haul the heavy chains uphill if we could help it.  We pulled with the come-along and the rope got so tight that we feared it was going to snap but the tree did not move an inch.  We ended up hauling the chains and slowly but surely the tree slid down.  My arms are sore of pulling the lever.  We had to remove the accumulated dirt from the front of the tree several times.  The tree made a 1' deep trench as it was dragged down hill.

If we were to start all over with the same hanged tree we would have follow the recommendation of doing a second cut with the notch facing away from the pull line.  That way the tree would have given us a head start as far as angle plus the shape of the base would have been more conducive to sliding rather than digging as it was.

[timber tramp]

  Glad you got your tree on the ground safely. I'll bet you've learned some things from this too.                                                    TT

[4genlgr]

 8) 8) all safe and sound a'int loggin' fun

[Magicman]

"Next time"  it will be completely different.  Different forces, stresses, and loads.  Another reason to never cut without two chainsaws or at least two bars/chains.  Trees/logs are very unforgiving.

[Ron Scott]

Mission accomplished! ;)