I am certainly NO expert on tree removal.

Sep 01, The best way how to cut a tree which leans different direction than you need it to fall down is to have a helper. Number one, you should always have safety gear like a hard head, safety glasses and gloves.

Take a rope (make sure it is much longer than your tree) and either climb it or install a little log and the end of it. Steps To Cut A Leaning Tree In The Opposite Direction Assess the situation.

It would be a massive mistake to put saw to the trunk without assessing the situation first. Make Determine the back lean. Some calculations will be involved in this phase, just to ensure the tree falls in the Use the Estimated Reading Time: 8 mins.

However, in my experience, unless you possess an anti-gravity ray gun, a leaning tree can only be felled by chainsaw in the direction of lean and it’s fairly easy, safely to achieve that.

The only safe way to drop a leaning tree in the opposite direction is to get heavy machinery in and push it over - if it’s a small tree, say about twenty feet. If the tree is leaning in the opposite direction, you need to make the back cut in stages, driving wedges as you go to support the trunk to prevent the saw from binding. Once the back cut extends halfway through the trunk, drive the wedges deeper with a sledgehammer to force the tree in the fall direction. Mar 18, trick for opposite lean if indeed the tree does need to come down here is a little trick for felling against the lean.

first you will want to drop as many limbs on back cut side to decrease the weight toward your garage. then start with a plunge cut on your back cut side and push all the way through the tree. the cut is to be right in the middle of the tree, now use a side to side motion to give you a little. Nov 05, For certain, climbing and"piecing down" a heavy leaner is the safest method, as you can effectively take quite a bit of the weight off of that trunk and even, in some cases, let the heavy branches on the side you want the tree to fall and remove the opposite weight which can help get the center of gravity closer where you need it to be.

Nov 10, Cut all the wood off the hinge on the compressed side of the hinge and allow the beef in the hinge on the opposite side to turn the tree and break slowly as the tree turns and falls.

Good positioning of the anchor line, nice video, thanks Eric. Mar 18, trick for opposite lean if indeed the tree does need to come down here is a little trick for felling against the lean.

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first you will want to drop as many limbs on back cut side to decrease the weight toward your garage. then start with a plunge cut on your back cut side and push all the way through the tree. the cut is to be right in the. Nov 30, The easiest choice is to fell the tree in the direction it would naturally fall due to slope, overhang and wind direction.

Felling in another direction requires a special technique, more effort, and is sometimes just impossible. In the following video, you can learn proper methods for creating different notches and techniques for maintaining a.