Tree will be less likely to pull free from hang up.

Mar 18, You may be able to progressively take the butt of the tree in a direction that will it to eventually fall"backwards". Place a strong rope above where you are going to cut and off to the side. Make you're cuts till it is almost ready to fall. Saw off and to the side and you can now drop the tree from the safe distance of the length of your stumplopping.barted Reading Time: 9 mins. Aug 08, Do not intersect the back cut and the undercut.

Instead, leave a bit of uncut wood between the two cuts. Then, as soon as possible, insert a falling wedge into the back cut. The wedge will help ease the tree in the right direction and can also help you adjust if it starts leaning the wrong way. If the tree doesn’t fall after these steps /5(68). Once the wedge is removed, the tree may begin to fall on it's own.

If it does, use your escape route to get away. If it doesn't, you can begin cutting from the opposite side. It's best to cut slightly downwards. Sep 01, Cut 70% notch into the tree with the length of 80% of the trunk’s diameter.

Cut down slide first and then make upward cut to complete the notch. Make sure that your guy at the truck or atv start pulling little bit more. Then make the back cut toward to the corner of the face notch. So, any cuts from pruning won’t heal in time. Open cuts can leave your tree vulnerable, which may lead to months of struggling. Pruning is also a way to encourage growth.

Your tree isn’t trying to grow in the fall, it is trying to hunker down. Thus, pruning will weaken the plant. It is best to wait to prune until the dormant season next spring. May 29, Don’t Cut the Ground.

Whilst I was at it and had some help, I took down a couple of pine trees that died last summer.

When cutting up a felled tree, avoid touching the ground with the chain because even a brief encounter will severely dull the cutting teeth on your chain saw. If possible, cut partially through the tree and then rotate it to cut the rest of the way through.

15 / The basic felling procedure is to cut a notch on the side of the tree toward the direction you want it to fall, using a chain saw, and then finish cutting through the trunk from the opposite side. The apex of the triangular notch has to be a few inches below the back cut to create a hinge that prevents the trunk from splitting or moving laterally while the tree is falling.