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

Chainsaws are way more fun than hand tools!

To complete this BB, the minimum requirements are:
 - drop 6” to 8” live tree with a chainsaw

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

Clarifications:
- Trees larger than 8" diameter are ok if that's what your woodland care plans require to be cut

To complete this BB, the minimum requirements are:
- drop 6” to 8” live tree with a chainsaw

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

I chose a tree that was distressed, in am area overgrown.  This tree was zig-zagged, so using a Timber Tool greatly helped ensuring safety and direction of fall.  I asked an Expert to oversee this, who checked both my escape path and advised my notch direction, but I did all the work.  I wouldn't have left as big of a hinge without that advice, and I'm thrilled to see how well it worked.  A Timber Tool is a great investment and will be high on my priorities after this experience.

I cut a fat live tree

This wild cherry (Prunus serotina) was an atypical felling. It's been reaching out through the forest edge and getting lower every year. For several years now it has blocked the perimeter path/road around my main field where the tractor/trucks could not pass through, but it made for easiest spot to harvest cherries which I found a lot of value in. I finally went through with it and this is a piece of an ongoing effort to restore that section of pathway which I'll document for the associate BB. Cherry is great to carve so lots of crafts have been coming out of the materials generated.

I actually cut the "top" of the tree off first. With the felling cut it was leaning so heavily I was watchful for barberchair but it didn't occur. It actually fell and rested on the top end, standing in an arch like a rainbow. This did allow me to resituate some sapling magnolias to avoid collateral damage before pushing the tree over horizontally.