Is this the biggest Barber chair you've ever seen?

This 44 plus inch DBH dying white ash was a prime candidate for a Barber chair.

This cut was made at 5:23 p.m. and all the brush and wood stacked in the cul de sack by 8:23 p.m.

So there was no time for fooling around last day of dry weather and a very high end property. I was trying to preserve the lawn. The new Bobcat all wheel steer A300 did an amazing job with this heavy wood.

And I did all the cutting with a 24" bar for the entire tree, falling and bucking.

As it turned out the Barber chair was not unexpected but I did put a Coos Bay cut to the lay on the lean side, so it was not intentional.
Directional control was a nonissue, as we had wide open lawn.

It turned out that the Barber chair was actually a blessing in that it made the big wood easier to cut and move with the loader

I think the coolest thing about this video is the sound that that wood made cracking and popping for some time before the trunk split

Let me know if you think this is a cool video.

A lot of experienced loggers may look at it and say it's a very dangerous situation that was created but it really wasn't.

I was ready for the trunk to split at the stump. And we didn't even need the machine to get her to drop. We simply cut from one side and when enough of the compression had been taken off that side and the trunk shifted the whole piece just dropped.

The customer came out a couple hours later and said "where did the tree go?"

I thought she was kidding at first and then I had to explain to her we took it all down into the cul de sack.

that new loaders amazing in moving big wood

Because I was using a modified coos bay which was faster, easier and actually much safer than using a notch, even if there was a plunge behind the notch. I was making that cut with a 24" bar. so making a good notch and back cut would have been a chore. I may not have had enough bar to reach the center of the cut, which doesn't matter with a coos bay. It should be obvious to anyone with experience that the coos bay would have worked if I had kept cutting. The reason that the split took so long is that the amount of fibers holding the top on the stump had been severely reduced by the coos bay. The bottom line is that the cut would have worked 100% safely if I had kept cutting even another couple of seconds.

Видео Is this the biggest Barber chair you've ever seen? канала Daniel Murphy