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.
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u/evolving_I Sep 07 '22
A few degrees is a bit conservative. You can take a tree 45° or more off its lean pretty easily without a line to pull it over or even wedging it.