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Felling wedges vs. just pushing the tree by hand, and why I feel dumb about it now
So I was taking down a dead red oak behind a place off Route 9 in Poughkeepsie, maybe 14 inches at the stump, and it was leaning just a hair the wrong way toward a fence. My whole plan was to cut my notch, do my back cut, and then shove it over with my shoulder because it looked small enough. My buddy who has been climbing for 11 years just stared at me and handed me two plastic felling wedges from his truck. Long story short, I tapped those things in, and the tree started tipping with maybe three hits from a small hatchet while I was standing well back with both hands on my saw. When I pushed with my hands before, I had to lean into it, my footing was bad, and I had zero control over which way it went. With the wedges the hinge held fine, the tree went right where I aimed it, and I never got close to the trunk. It took me way too long to figure out that a $12 piece of plastic beats my body weight every single time. Anyone else got a dumb one like this where a cheap tool made you rethink how you were doing it?
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price.alice9d ago
Three hits with a hatchet and it tipped? That's wild.
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