Please Tell Me You Don't Do This!

 I spotted this stump photo on a logging site over on Fbook. No attribution was provided. Every so often someone will tell me that they cut stumps on an angle so it can push the tree over. We have discussed this before, and shown videos of bad results. The short report is that no matter how you make your cuts, the stump is not going to reach up and push for you.

We have posted many times about chainsaws, but this video covers the basics of proper falling technique pretty well. Watch it, and then click on Chainsaws in the Label section of the left sidebar. One of our neighbors was recently injured severely in a tree cutting accident. There have been several tree cutting accidents in our neighborhood over the years, so we are serious about wanting people to get training before they crank up a chainsaw.