I've never seen or heard it explained as well as you did Dan. That stump might be ugly but it did what you wanted it to do. The tree actually pulled itself. Outstanding!

Best demo of that method I've seen

You didn't even say the word "sizwheel", but now I understand much more about the physics of it. I like that extra pointer about the leaning tree wanting to settle on the low side if you take too much of the hinge out on that side. Thank you again!

Excellent video! I've watched a number of videos showing this "sizwheel cut" and you're the only one who took the time to explain, step-by-step, what to do and why it works. All of the other timber jocks are just showing off, it appears.

Very helpful. Taking the time to shut off the saw and explain what you are doing, and what to watch out for, will make me more confident when I next come across a side leaner needing to be dropped.

Thanks. That makes pure simple unambiguous mechanical engineering sense.

Very nice! Good explanation! Good execution! Good presentation! What else can anyone ask for?! I Also have a channel here on KZfaq and I try to do the same thing, help as many people as I can. But most of my content is not in English. Anyway, I just wanted to let you know you are doing a great job! Keep up the good work! You are helping more people than you think.

Thanks for making these videos Dan. I've learned quite a lot by just watching you and a few others on here work. When you take the time to explain the tricks of your trade it is greatly appreciated. For most of my firewood cutting the trees are usually already on the ground but occasionally I cut one down. And in SE Texas they rarely grow straight haha. Stay safe out there.

Excellent demonstration of a sizwheel! A little wood pull is a small price to pay to keep everything in lead.

A++. 90 degrees from the lean is no small trick. Most excellent.

Masterful depiction and execution. THANK YOU! Sincere gratitude for your effort and time spent to make this information available, able to understand, and delivered in a 9 min. 8 sec. video. This is clearly an example of years of learning and years of performance toward the goals of proper felling, avoiding injury, and maintaining equpment. Students will benefit from this video and I speculate it will garner multiple views per individual. Salutations to you, sir!

Best demo of the sizwheel I've found. For some reason I expected the stem to rotate CCW after it broke, but I guess the side lean counteracted that.

Thanks mate, it works like a charm, tried it this morning, saved a lot of wedge banging & dropped straight in the hole.

You explained this well! Amazing how much you redirected the fall. Well done, Sir!

Great explanation, appreciate how you stop and comment thru your process. Never thought to cut that deep into the stump, awesome.

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I learned a heap. Thank you for sharing your expertise. I am grateful.

Very helpful

Beautiful shot! Thanks for the lesson.

Great video Dan. The point is to keep the wood in lead. Awesome tutorial. It will help many people. Be good be safe. 👍

nice sizwheel cut Dan, they really do work!

Nice tip. Everyday we learn something new 👍

this one was a good video to a vey specific problem. very good video. it went exactly where needed defying gravity. was close to being a widow maker lol.

Interesting! Nice job on walking us through it. Will definitely use this technique.

Great video Dan!

Good educational video Dan! Thank you!

Thanks again, Dan. DOUGout

great demonstration.. this video could be used for training... sweet!

Very helpful thank you sir!

Great video Dan! Thanks for your detailed explanation. Have you ever heard of using a plumb bob to check the lean on a tree?

Good video!

excellent job

Great video , i tried this for the first time a couple days ago . It helped although my Technique was far from perfect.

Nice. Keep em comin.

Thanks for that excellent demo/ explanation. You got any more side leaner content? Up till now I've relied on either cutting a very deep wedge, or occasionally using a keyhole cut. This seems better. Too thanks a bunch for explaining about getting pinched on the compression side, I've had that happen a couple times but somehow never quite understood what was going on.

Wow Great job!!

Here's a thought. Before putting in sizwheel head round to under side and bore in some backcut behind a really thin hinge and get a wedge in there. Then cut sizwheel. Then continue that back cut around around to the topside. Get a wedge in the back to finally help it go over rather than cutting topside hinge to point of tipping. Might be a way of getting less hinge on bottom side and more hinge on topside when it goes which I imagine would maximise the tension strap holding the tree true to the face cut as it goes over. Not that these extra steps were needed in your example as you demonstrated it went just right. Just thinking aloud about how to level it up for when necessary.

Dan, Very cool technique! I've never seen this before. When confronted with a challenging lean or possible hang up situation, i usually notch in a jack and use hydraulics to get what i need! New sub here. Love the content. Would love to see some material showcasing your saw and equipment. Tools of the trade. Thanks again!!

Nice video friend!! Definitely worth making the extra effort on that cut

Great technique! Is this what they call a sizwheel

Wow man first time a saw a strange technique. But very good

Dan: You are getting very interesting! Is that cut known as a sizwheel or am I mixing it up with something else? Thumbs up big time.

Good ole sizwheel

Far out felling 👍🏻

That's called the sizwell cut and it's a great notch to know if you can cut it right

Great video explanation, is this also know as a sizwheel then? Thanks from Scotland.

LOVED THIS VID DO YOU HAVE A VIDEO OF THOSE ADDITIONAL TECHNIQUES YOU MENTIONED ?

Thx Dan. Used technique on 12" alder and worked. Any value to putting a wedge, lightly set, on low side to assist against the natural lean or is this counterproductive?

Nice skills and cut, so did you plunge all the way across the tree or almost to the other side?

Hey Dan Great vid, got a ?, Was your cut on a uphill angle towards the natural lean

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Great video. Do you prefer the Husqvarna saws over the stihls? Any major reasons?

Buckin can teach ya a few more tricks.

If you have a fir that kind of bows, and the middle of the stick is say 2 ft out of line with the trunk, but the top is right over the stump, do you consider that to be leaning as hard as you would if it wasn’t bowed? Hopefully that makes sense. Basically if the tree looks like this ( vs this \ I ask cause I know there’s more weight in the middle of the stick but the top is gonna have more leverage

Hi Dan. I have a question: I've got about a 15" paper birch, maybe 60 ft, with a forward lean. I note that the bones would want to fell that a little to the right of the lean. I need to fell it about 10 degrees to the left of the lean. So, my plan is to aim the notch (Humboldt), in that direction, then use the back cut to steer a little to the left by using a tapered hinge, and maybe a wedge or two. My questions are: 1) given that, should it work, and 2), not being totally familiar with the hinge holding wood, I'm guessing that the widest part of the hinge must be on the side I want that tree to go, right? (I'll be chaining it to prevent any barber chair). Whaddya' think? Thanks in advance for all of your advice and thinking. Best....D

I don't think the wider gap made hardly any difference. It's the thicker hinge that mattered.

What if it was leaning forward like that but you needed to swing it that far but toward the low side?

Hahaha that was cool!

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If you aimed your humboldt cut further to the left of where you wanted the tree to fall (opposite of the lean) wouldnt that have helped take the tree to the spot you wanted it?

Every day stuff.

At the crucial moment you turn the camera away! now I do not understand what you wanted to show.

Kind of confusing

Fish eye optics are not the best choice if you wanna talk about angles