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

My second tree ever.

My first chainsaw use ever... another tool on the future needed tools list! The BB says we only need the wedge cut and dropped tree pics, but i took a close up of the hinge after getting praise on it from Fred...lol

This (elm?) was crowding out a pecan tree in our orchard. I’m attempting to revitalize the orchard, so it had to go.

Also, thorny underbrush.

This is a pretty large birch tree that I needed to remove.  The first picture is the tree.  The next is just a picture of my old saw.  Third picture is the tree before cutting, but after removing some others that were in the way, including an Autumn Olive that cost  mey some skin later.  I actually cut down a half dozen trees that morning, but I used pictures of this one to show my mistake.  I made my crosscut for my wedge far too low.  I don't want to include pictures of only things that go right, I think it's important to see mistakes as well.  The last picture is the stump after taking the tree down.

Aloha!

During the ATC, I cut down a live tree with a chainsaw. Before this I had never cut down a large tree, only smaller ones < 4" diameter. We used a cool tool which leaned at a 45 degree angle or so, digging teeth into the tree and foot into the ground which really felt like it improved the safety of the situation. It seems to be called a tree jack. Once you have your notch cut, you cut the other direction but not all the way, then you push it over with the winch on the tree jack. It looks like this: (no affiliation) https://www.amazon.com/LOGOSOL-FELLING-LIFTING-ARBORIST-FORESTRY/dp/B06VSW3YMS