How to SWING a Tree with a DUTCHMAN

How to SWING a Tree with a DUTCHMAN

[@evanhughes3027]

My man. That axe/hammer withdrawal straight to strike was ice cold. The mustache picked the right host, with moves like that.

[@KingFinishCarpentryLLC]

That was pretty savage

[@jB-uw8fi]

This is much better than the British video i saw, “how to swing a Dutchman with a tree”.

[@AssafLevyIL]

😂

[@addictedtosteel4673]

😂😂😂

[@VidarXR]

😂😂

[@mountainlifewithdavidkelsie]

Thats not the way the other professional has beens on KZbin do it! 😂 very nice my friend such an artist! Love watching you fine folks dump timber!

[@timberfallingcouple]

Thank you sir!

[@eclipsearchery9387]

Interesting stuff.....need to watch that one again. Thanks for showing this cut.

[@thenextpoetician6328]

The algorithm sent me here. That was a beautiful cut. Be safe in the woods.

[@timberfallingcouple]

Thank you!

[@thenextpoetician6328]

@@timberfallingcoupleYou're welcome. :)

[@d-railfpv9315]

Awesome work as always! Cheers from the east Kootenays bc!

[@marshmellow3110]

Pleasure to watch him work

[@timberfallingcouple]

Thanks for tuning in!

[@JohnnyIDive37]

Phil, you are seriously at the top of your game man, highly skilled sawyer, love all your videos, I truly pick up a few great cutting g tips from you both 🎉❤. Stay safe to you both.

[@timberfallingcouple]

Glad you like our content!! Appreciate the kind words 👍🏼

[@JohnnyIDive37]

Love them videos.@@timberfallingcouple

[@JohnnyIDive37]

@@timberfallingcouple Hi again, do you run 0.50 gauge chain Phil?

[@IRONHORSE427RACING]

Very nicely done and it looks like it saved right out !

[@matthewsbernier]

I'm concerned about the fallers commenting who don't see the maybe 7 or 8 inch long, maybe 5 inch deep dutchman you create here, or the way the tree almost spins a quarter turn as it comes down and gets thrown by it. Like, what on Earth do their face cuts look like normally.

[@abrogard]

Yep. Well I'm not a faller but I don't see, don't understand either. Can you explain? I saw the tree do that spin at the end of course. Was that desired? Why? And what's this 'dutchman' for? To make a tree fall in a certain direction? Well that's what you cut the notch in a certain direction for isn't it? Or is it just to make sure that the notch and hinge you've cut do what they're supposed to do? A way of helping them out? Strengthening them? The way having one end of the hinge (the end away from the lean) does when felling a leaner?

[@RobertSkene-qw3ob]

What about an Irishman ? Will he do?🇨🇦😂

[@TreeGuyGabriel]

Great lay brother 💪🏻

[@timberfallingcouple]

Thank ya!

[@Emanemoston]

I don’t know how much that saw cost or how much they pay the man that sharpens the chain, but they are worth every penny. Well done.

[@harmonicliving3507]

Nice shot

[@salvor1]

I missed the dutchman part. It looked pretty normal.

[@dp1381]

If that undercut looked normal to you, you’re doing it wrong.

[@davedyck3982]

Beautiful!

[@stevent2126]

Simple directional felling. Whats the swinging dutchman stuff all about? Sounds like a hippy 70's song.

[@twowheelsdown2002]

I always found a wedge in the bottom corner to really help initiate rotation on the stump. I would face it for direction, then put a Dutchman in. I would backcut just above the face and cut up as far as possible on the heavy Dutchman side and get a wedge in that heavy corner. Then I would tickle the holding side as I tapped the wedge. The wedge in that bottom corner acts like a ramp. It takes some pressure off that point and creates a ramp that the tree slides off of, because you want that part of the hinge to let go and start rotating. The wedge there kicks that tree around so it rotates around into the face. Try it sometime. An old cutter showed me that trick, and I got really good at it.

[@timberfallingcouple]

I go opposite.

[@timberfallingcouple]

I face the tree to where I know it will start, then I undercut for direction. In my experience the kicker thrown in there only causes stress on that little triangle of holding wood. Works for some, but ain't for me.

[@twowheelsdown2002]

@@timberfallingcouple I put the wedge opposite from my triangle of holding wood. So it shouldn’t be stressing the holding wood. You want that triangle to hold, but you want the opposite side to rotate. There is a lot of weight creating friction on the leaning side. The wedge there helps lift the heavy side, removing that friction and helping that side to rotate. And since you are lifting the heavy side, you are actually taking stress off the holding wood by lifting it towards the holding wood. The wedge is taking pressure off the holding wood, reducing friction on the heavy side that you want to rotate, and it’s actually giving it a kick to start walking around. I had a very tall 4 foot Douglas Fir leaning very hard downhill right at a house, and turned it a full 90 degrees sidehill doing this method.

[@timberfallingcouple]

@twowheelsdown2002 yes, I'm very aware of how a kicker works. I just don't personally get good results. If it works for you, then very well.

[@timberfallingcouple]

I accidentally deleted your last comment trying to delete my last as well. I finally watched the video to see what you're talking about. That was not a kicker at all. I was literally wedging the tree over. You're missing the point of the dutchman. There is no point to trying to lift all the weight of that tree up the hill the point is to get it rolling and swinging. So you wedge it towards the dutchman, not against it, otherwise just face and undercut the tree and wedge the damn thing up without the dutchie. That's about it I'm going to say about this. You may need to get back with your 60 year old homeboy and reassess your understanding of the concept here if you're having a hard time understanding wedging the tree vs kickers. Hope you don't smoosh nothing.

[@headcheesefry]

First thing you do is look up. Might see a big dead branch, might see a hornet's nest.

[@williamsolomon1307]

Nice one

[@garysublett3493]

They don't teach that everyday at beauty school...

[@timberfallingcouple]

My favorite comment I’ve seen in a while

[@beavischrist5]

You dont cut timber on a windy day. Stay out of the Woods when the moisture is low, or youle aint gonna live to collect your dough.😊

[@havardpedersen1138]

Why moisture, how?

[@beavischrist5]

@@havardpedersen1138 Johnny Cash- song called lumber jack. Moisture low i think the fire hazard when its dry in de forrests.

[@havardpedersen1138]

@@beavischrist5 Aha.. rarely, to never, that dry in Norway.. didn't cross my mind 👍

[@zarb88]

he doesnt want the tree to go downhill but the saw curf hes cutting is downhill, but somehow the tree goes where hes aiming. ive cut a lot of trees but im to dumb to understand this cut.

[@vaughnslavin9784]

Nice!

[@jessealvarado4319]

Surprised his saw cut so well with the blade upside down and missing so many cutters. I think the factory sold him a bad chain.

[@havardpedersen1138]

Not sure if trolling or not 🤔

[@peterdavies6587]

No swinging tree

[@WAHLS_arbor]

So the Dutchman was on the compression side?

[@simd510]

Yes

[@jamessmith9786]

In my youth I used an axe to hit a wedge and broke the axehead. Didn't want to carry the maul to the worksite. My father was NOT pleased!

[@charliemyres5450]

Can't see anything out of the usual here! Maybe I am the Dutchman.

[@Jay-dr9co]

AKA Norwegian swing cut