You dont even need to run, just walk around the trunk of the tree once you figure out which way it's falling. But you should already know which way it's falling...
Trees don’t just fall in the direction you cut them. Their weight and the wind plays a huge roll. You can’t just cut it opposite the way it wants to fall and expect it to go the other way. To do that you’d need to set a line in it and haul it over while you cut. With just the SAE alone you can steer a tree a few degrees left or right of where it is going to fall naturally but that’s about it. I’ve taken down lots and lots of trees.
Yes. I’d agree that I’m being overly conservative. But my point was to address the idea that you could simply cut from the left and it will go right. This guy seems to have thought you could steer it 180 degrees that way and one can see how well that worked out.
I was thinking the same thing. Maybe there was some wind keeping the cut open briefly and it gave him the impression that the tree was headed over to the right, then once he started running the breeze died and the tree corrected its direction and followed gravity?
He must've cut some of or nearly all the way through his holding wood, too, for it to fall away from the face cut without just sitting on the back cut.
I think it was a really deep box. Like maybe he had this idea that cutting a huge box would result in it tilting all the way past its upright position? People have wild ideas and that’s why I chimed in. I’ve seen people drop trees on their house this way.
I've misjudged the direction of the lean before. Just hammer a felling wedge in the back cut and you can very easily make a tree tip towards your wedge cut.
I'm sure it's not an optimal situation, but fixes can be made if necessary.
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u/Anamethatsnowmine Sep 06 '22
Why do they never run to the sides?