Northern Kentucky Project: First Video on Directional Felling - Mechanically Assisted Felling

This video shows how directional felling can help preserve groups of trees that a landowner wishes to keep via the use of a tractor and logging wench. There is background noise of a worker running a chainsaw and this noise interference has prompted me to purchase a lapel microphone for the purpose of limiting background noise and helping preserve the commentary.

One important rule of chainsaw work: once a cut is made, it cannot be unmade. This goes for trees and for flesh.

For because of that consider these guidelines…

- Be sure that your notch is facing where you want it to face before making your felling back-cut.

- Be sure that the tree you are about to cut down is really the tree you wanted to cut down

- Be sure you are wearing your chaps and face protection.

- Does it look and feel safe (i.e., be sure that there are no hazards hanging above you such as large broken limbs [widow-makers], bee hives, vines that can cause the tree to hang up and/or pull down branches on top of you, etc).