When the blades are sharp , the wood cuts like a hot knife through butter!
The first cut takes the branch down and the second cut leaves a clean cut so the tree can heal and look good. So tree #1 is out of the way.
The second tree needed a little pull in another direction, so we put a rope as high as we could throw it and Mariah pulls the tree in the direction of the fall, always standing out of harms way, and Richard works the saw. He always starts by cutting a wedge in the tree on the side where he wants the tree to fall. Then as Mariah pulls to the side, Richard saws from the opposite side of the wedge in the tree a little above and cuts through to meet the wedge. And the tree falls where we want it to fall.
Tree #3 was really tricky. There was no way it was going to fall with a simple pull, so we hooked up the come-a-long as high up on the tree we were cutting down to another tree as low as possible. Then Mariah pulled in the direction to the side, so the tree would fall clear of the fence and other trees, and it worked!!!
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