Plunge Cut (Trigger). How to safely cut a heavy leaner.

McAllister Tree Service Training Video

[af]

Clear and to the point. I hate 20 minute videos for a 5 minute job.

[clarencemainjk]

I’m a retired cutter of over 40 years, you did a great job!

[joeritter]

Awesome video! I almost learned the hard way how dangerous leaners were when I was 16 dropping a leaning oak over a frozen river. It barber chaired like the best of them and landed in my boot prints on the ice. Having no traction I barely got out of the way.

After that I'm found the the felling instructions in the old Stihl saw manual from Grandpa's saw. Learned a lot, practiced a lot. Ran a tree removal crew to pay for college. I still pull side jobs clearing building sites. 20 years later I've still never felt like a pro. I feel like every tree could be the last one, like the first nearly was, if I don't think it through first.

[dr.emilschaffhausen]

I'm a professional armchair quarterback and I give you a thumbs up.

[unclemoe]

This is the type of vedio that should be used for training. Too many people with chain saws think they are qualified to cut down trees safely. When they don't have a clue. Seen it way to many times over my years in tree removal. 😢

[ricflair]

One of the better tutorials I’ve watched for safely cutting a leaner AND how to do a boring cut in one short video. A true professional.

[grdelawter]

This has to be the very best description on how to do this that I have ever seen!
Good job

[davidpalmer]

Thanks for getting straight to it and providing such a clear explanation. Well done 👍🏻 Thanks

[dqmc]

I’m a Tree Climber certified by YouTube and I think you did an outstanding job.

[pjsmfasheri]

The best explanation of how to cut a dangerous tree. Thanks.

[essaytee]

Awesome tutorial… plain, clear and direct. Many thanks

[simioneking]

Greatest demonstration on YouTube. Ive spend last few days looking for videos

[rw]

Thanks. I just bought my first chainsaw. The Stihl manual says to plunge cut one of the ways you describe it with that rear trigger cut last. It was good that you described that amd then explained why you cut all of the way out that time.
I'll be cutting firewood sized trees for the time being. I've read my Stihl manual front to back and now I'm looking to see what others can teach.

[growyourgood]

uhm, IF you LIve, you learn. I think you just saved my life. Mine's leaning even more and started a notch, but lean so strong it pinched the bar...got another bar and was going to repeat...cuz I thought I was smart. NOW gonna do a notch like yours, plunge cut and release trigger. This video just popped up, I wasn't even searching tree vids. It's Luck or it's a miracle. lol. Many Thanks!

[annaaron]

Perfect. Right PPE gear, plan escape route, well planned, the right bore cut, all. Good show.

[Lucasv]

Good demonstration. A professional logger taught me this technique years ago and I've used it many times since.

[jpopelish]

The only thing I could have added was an explanation for how this prevents a barber chair. A barber chair is a shear failure of the wood, as a back curt, approaching the face cut, crowds the compression forces at the face cut against the approaching tension forces at the back cut. At some amount of shear force concentration, the wood will fail in shear and the tree will split, vertically, bending over the wood on the compression side of the shear failure. Your plunge cut concentrated the tension forces further and further toward the rear, spreading and weakening the shear forces between compression and tension more and more, until the trigger tears off. Then, as the hinge bends, the tension forces on the back of the hinge, break the fibers, before shear failure can take over.

[thetruth]

I have a banana leaner tomorrow. Will use this technique. Will let you know how it turns out. Appreciate your time spent with the explanation, and final stump view. UPDATE: Worked like you instructed. Thank you, Sir.

[samwimpy]

Job well done...I am self taught via YouTube, need more videos like yours...clear, concise, no annoying extras...I subscribed to your channel!

[thegoodearth]

Very well-done, and a very helpful video for those looking to stay alive!