A safer method of felling is to create an open-faced undercut notch, 70 to 90 degrees; and then to bore through the tree to create the hinge first, working backward toward the outside of the tree from the direction of the hinge to complete the cut, using wedges if necessary.
Using this open-faced method, as taught in The Game of Logging training program, would have prevented the tree from barberchairing; and even if the saw had run out of fuel, the uncut part of the tree would have held the tree in place and not caused it to fall prematurely.
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I've been having an issue lately with a few larger trees barber chairing not necessarily bad but it could be worse. They're probably 30ish" trees give or take " I'm not good at visual measurements without a tape measure. And when they split its probably about ' up.
I have no idea why they do but if someone could give me insight into how to make it less likely to happen I'd appreciate it. KenJax Tree Terraphobic. Joined Feb 17, Messages 11, Location Over there. Could be a lot of things.
It could be the heart wood is rotten, your face cut isn't deep enough, too much lean for a conventional face and back cut, failure to cut the sap wood on both side of large diameter trees Before you can prevent a barber chair you need to know and understand what's causing it. Skeans Addicted to ArboristSite.
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Photo credit: UK Daily Mail. And why are they so dangerous? Why do arborists call a split tree a Barberchair? Dangerous barberchair trees should be cut by a professional arborist. Later in the day he rejoined us, and I asked him how felling the large tree had gone.
He told me that he strapped it, notched it, and it violently cracked as he began his back cut. The ratchet strap held it together while he finished the back cut, and the tree was felled successfully without incident. He confided to me later that despite the morning stand down, he would not have strapped the trunk if I had not made such a big deal about it right before he left. He was happy that he did, and using the strap only cost him an extra minute or two.
We can learn several things from this incident. First, a clear escape route is essential when tree felling. Clear a path at a degree angle opposite the direction you are felling the tree. As crucial as a clear escape route is, there are other things we can do to protect ourselves from barber chair hazards. At Lewis Tree Service, the use of a rope in the tree is required when felling whole trees.
Instead of choking the rope into the canopy with a running bowline, you can run one end of the rope through the canopy and down the back side of the tree to the base. Tie the rope off around the trunk above the cut, and not only will you have a pull rope installed, you will also have the rope tied around the trunk to prevent it from splitting, similar to the way we used the ratchet straps in the example above.
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