How to Fell a Windblown Tree

Andrew Mead, forestry expert/instructor/assessor, shows us how to make safe a windblown tree using a chainsaw and hand winch. This is a potentially hazardous scenario and Andy talks us through the various cuts needed to ensure the tree moves in a controlled way - to avoid danger and to release the tree without damage to its fibres. www.lynhertraining.com/
An Adliberate film www.adliberate.co.uk for WoodlandsTV www.woodlands.co.uk/tv

[@alpinewind3209]

This is excellent teaching, clear and articulate, with the reasons why you're doing certain actions and then executing. Great job!

[@robertwoody9367]

Great video, superb clear and professional instruction. Thank you for sharing.

[@2PurpleSwitchs]

I like the intro with the woods its my favorite part of cutting up felled trees my saw got trapped im always glad to have a second saw to release it watch here kzbin.info/www/bejne/qKCnZJdpg7emeZI

[@michaelpcooksey5096]

Explained well, Enjoyed the accent. Camera angles were spot on. Keep up the good work.

[@nheng6913]

Learned new and clarified old methods. Thanks for a great video !

[@vexbomer]

wonderfully done

[@aniaklementowicz2800]

Good video and easy and clear to understand, I have very similar trees in my wood. Thank you.

[@pedroleighton9776]

InstaBlaster...

[@jamescain7250]

Great video mate defo one of the better I’ve seen. Stay safe 💪

[@Woodyjims-shack]

Very helpful thanks.

[@pnaylish1004]

That winch was much better than the come along I use. Good video.

[@RSLtreecare]

Fantastic, great bit of work. I am lucky to have trained in some tree chainsaw work.

[@BlinkyBillNo1]

Thanks for the video. I have some leaning trees on my property that need removing. Had I acted hastily without learning the proper technique I may not have been here. I'll start with the small trees first and work up.

[@elainabarnett3653]

Jolly good. Your explanation prior to execution was helpfull. Thanks for sharing.

[@FlukeTog]

Nice winch. Thanks for the video,

[@pkupkupkupkupku]

This was excellent.

[@harryclark8320]

Good video. It would be worth mentioning that the bore cut should be above your bottom notch cut, to form the step.

[@WallytheRapper]

good video.. thanks

[@gunterbecker8528]

Ģood job ,perfectly explained and executed!

[@Cooksonite]

Nice vid guys 🤙🙌✌

[@cmondons]

Good video! You could consider improving safety by negating the use of the shackle between the strop and the winch hook, its just another failure point and potential heavy flying object if things go wrong. The strop can go directly onto the hook.

[@chaswarren7239]

Better still, remove the hook from the eye & just use the shackle - stronger & more secure !

[@bespokefencing]

With a short bar I'd bore the hinge first just in case the tree stayed hung up, that would save all the bother of butchering the butt to get access through the back cut! Just my opinion though, nothing unsafe with a hinge reduction from the side. Good informative video.

[@erikdale9145]

really thorough and learned a lot but I can't help but think this is what we have big ass trucks &12k#winches for here in the states ;-)

[@johnmadden5000]

Very good !!!

[@WOODLANDSTV]

Thanks a lot!

[@frankmatyus4784]

griphost a wonderful tool

[@gerryplante2651]

I like the rolling technique.

[@TheDadPenfield]

Nice video. I was wondering, when you make a plunge cut you start off cutting up to the hinge and then back cutting to the trigger or release wood. I always see people release from the back side and saw forward. Are there any problems with continuing to back cut from the inside of the tree when cutting the release?

[@jmontgomery1178]

I was wondering the same thing. This guy Buckin Billy Ray Smith I think cuts out from the bore to remove the back tab. kzbin.info/www/bejne/f527iGmJbZx5gK8

[@brettblack7049]

You can cut out the back on a tree that has moderate lean, but if you cut out the back on a heavy leaner, the "trigger" wood can break, and the tree may grab your saw and take it for a ride. When I bore, then cut from the outside in cutting the trigger, I typically release the trigger cutting below the bore cut and not above as it can grab you saw if you cut above it also. Be safe.

[@josephpostma1787]

Could you use a cant hook on smaller diameter trees? How would I orient the pole?

[@therrienmichael08]

That was technical.

[@flyprincess69]

The winch appears a safer method vs walking it down with several cuts.

[@rorylobban4789]

You missed the most important part right at the beginning. Look up . Don’t work under other hazards.

[@timberray9572]

I have rolled trees of the stump roughly the same size using a peavey with a four foot handle.

[@chrisw5742]

Which gave me a GREAT idea. A log say 8 inches thick and 12 feet long could be chained to the tree horizontally and the chain secured with some bolts drilled into the leaner. Then the end of the log could be pulled with a rope or winch from a nice distance away and it would have MASSIVE leverage. Like a Peavey but much bigger.

[@dannysulyma6273]

A longer bar on your saw, (perhaps a larger saw), would increase the fallers safety by allowing him/her to stand slightly farther away where you can better observe the tree above, where half of the danger lives. Dead limbs, (widow makers), are impossible to hear falling over the saw noise so one must rely on ones vision to be able to avoid anything falling from above.

[@AshleyK1ng]

Yes but some forests there is restrictions on what you can take in there and how big your equipment is

[@adamvesely7101]

How many chair/compression compromises at the stump have u LUCKED through? Idunno.i don't want a big saw unless must.File ur dogs etc whatever.My saw fucking CUTS , right. I don't find "long bar" solution..."real" Good Luck to you

[@dannysulyma6273]

I have safely fallen thousands of hung up trees over the past 25 years, almost all with 66 Stihl's, .404 chain on 33 or 36 inch bars. Rarely had any tools other than my saw, axe ( 4lb Arvika or 7lb Trojan) and a pouch full of wedges so I would have to get the tree to spin itself down by well thought out wood removal, often requiring long angular cuts which are easier and safer with more bar. If it was limb bound I work on the BC coast where the 36" bar was the normal for most guys but now 33" is more common, though my 44" still gets the call once in a while. Super sharp dogs are not so important with the species that I fall, (fir, cedar and hemlock), just a sharp chain and some knowledge.

[@bigchief4044]

@@dannysulyma6273 cool story, bro.

[@WallytheRapper]

I witnessed a hung up tree being felled.. we had no choice but to fell the holding tree.. the direction in which the hung up tree was planned on going with the holding tree didn't work.. the outcome was the held up tree twisting on decent to the escape route.. resulting in the man getting a serious thump. but luckily survived.

[@adamvesely7101]

yea, ive bound them together on some occasions, also pull on holding. Myself, am very fond of/ ALWAYS SET ROPE / very few "sorry I did". GOOD ins. almost always...Worth it(time/work. I guess my #1 rule...Set a rope. Can seem ridiculous sometimes, but fuck it. Hey GOOD LUCK

[@tylerbonevlogs5533]

Are you cutting all of the trees down here

[@gregtaylor8327]

Cool.

[@kevinbyrne4538]

To remove a wind-blown tree, I've also seen Swedish lumberjacks use a technique that they call "kana på slana" (slide on the pole). They make a notch at the base of the tree, then they shove into the notch a sapling whose branches have been stripped off, and then they lay the sapling on the ground, to serve as a rail. They then use a stout branch to move the base of the tree along the sapling / rail until the wind-blown tree falls. kzbin.info/www/bejne/bYPboKWbaragaKs

[@giggetygoo9823]

Damper on that winch line? 😯😯😯

[@MrBlueberrypie44]

When you say the sling is 2 tonne Minimum Breaking Strength (MBS) Are you sure you don't mean Safe Working Load (SWL) or Working Load Limit (WLL), that has a factor of 5 applied to it? I think you messed that bit up, otherwise cool video

[@rileydirckx2468]

when that happens my dad puts some tannerite to take the tree out...

[@elainabarnett3653]

Could we get a copy of the video?

[@DavidSmith-qo1se]

What if you have no winch?

[@andycapp8843]

Hire shops are useful sometimes.

[@TheKopakah]

I don't like where he's standing at 4:45 but hard to see via video

[@nbrowne73]

No I just get the winch rope from my Landy and pull it over.

[@garygross1085]

Sorry couldnt really get a clear close vision.

[@LocSharp]

rendering

[@edferguson8991]

Buy a bigger saw?

[@JimTom.]

haha isnt that saw cute

[@monquaytrumpit9773]

I never knew Ricky Gervais was a lumberjack!

[@davidjames2145]

This is why I hire professionals for difficult jobs. According to the HSE, dropping a windthrown tree is about the most dangerous activity there is. These chaps know exactly what they're about. The few blown-over trees in my small woodland can just stay there; they're not really dangerous unless I mess with them, and the wildlife won't mind.

[@Wanous-hv7zo]

make a cut from the bottom all the way thru tree will go to the ground hook skidder up pull it down. done

[@elainabarnett3653]

Would one need to insert wedges also to prevent bar pinching?

[@MrGorehound]

Nowt more horrible than hung up Sitka.

[@Ygggdrasill]

It's a joke? Bullshit!

[@barneydtr]

He's one of those 'yeah' blokes ... yeah? It's bad safety to stick the nose of the chainsaw into the tree because you'll get a kickback.

[@Theorimlig]

Only if you're using the top side of the bar's point. Proper plunge cuts are an absolutely fundamental tecnique, and one I was taught to use on every tree I fall where the diameter is big enough.

[@SorenConradsen]

Philip Larkinabout Why would you make a comment about proper chainsaw safety when you obviously know nothing about basic felling techniques?? 😂

[@barneydtr]

***** Yeah? Why would you make a comment in English when you do not know how to spell the word 'know'? Take your basic felling techniques and shove them up your arse you boring idiot. Yeah?

[@SorenConradsen]

Philip Larkinabout Damn. Are you on your period?

[@barneydtr]

I think that you are the little bitch here. Yeah?