I made a short video of
one of the trees I felled today, in this case
using yellow plastic wedges hammered into the back cut to tip it over. I left a thicker hinge than usual because of the branch snagged in a fork, so it would come down slowly with the wedges rather than straight away after the chainsaw cuts.
In the video
you can hear the cracks as fibres in the trunk break one by one, which turn into a crackle, and then the door hinge sound as it falls. When it hits the ground, there's a whoosh like an hour's worth of rustling branches compressed into one second, and then a slight thud as the trunk lands. What the video can't convey is that you feel the thud through the soles of your boots as the shockwave reaches you along with the sound. It's the sensation of driving over a pothole, but you're stood there on solid ground.
This tree, and a couple of others today, are part of widening the ride from the entrance, now the work in the Glade is done.
