Felling a live tree with a chainsaw - PEP BB woodland.sand.livechain

I cut this tree this weekend at Wheaton Labs.   It was marked as one that they wanted to take down.




I cut the notch, then wedged the timber tool into the tree and the earth to help direct the tree to fall in the planed direction.   I made the back cut until I had about a 2" hinge.   I put the saw down out of the way on a stump and cranked the timber tool to push the tree over.   I seemed way safer and more predictable than any other ways I have seen trees cut down in the past.  

I felled this roughly 8" diameter tree behind the Fisher Price house. It went very smoothly, with most of the branches on one side so it was easy to predict the direction it would fall.

To document this I've included pictures of my tree, the tree with the notch cut, the tree on the ground, and a tape measure laid across the stump.

To document your completion of the BB, provide the following as pics or video (<2 min):
- your chosen tree
- tree with the wedge/notch cut
- tree on the ground
- measure across the stump showing diameter

Last summer work, forgot to publish it...

Here is my submission for Felling a live tree with a chainsaw - PEP BB woodland.sand.livechain

To qualify, I am showing pics of:
- the chosen tree
- tree with the wedge/notch cut
- tree on the ground
- measure across the stump showing diameter

There is an elm tree grown up over the years on the edge of some of my garden beds.  It's casting a lot of shade and I decided it was time to coppice it back to open things up more and harvest some wood.  Alas, it's a tricky drop in that the tree is leaning heavily toward my greenhouse/pole barn complex.  I need to get it to fall in a different direction than it really wants to go.  Ropes and come alongs were employed.

This wasn't the most elegant of tree harvests.  Some comedy ensued, but I got it down with the chainsaw, ropes, and no injuries at all.  In fact minimal damage to the surrounding trees!  

Here are the documenting pics for my submission to this BB.