It poured rain most of the day. we had trees along a fence row that made it even tougher… The trees were not real large but they had quite a bit of lean. The leans in some cases made for some interesting training moments – Barber chair…. 
This tree was 10 to 12 inches DBH and a 1 inch hinge was decided on in the plan. They decided a strait back cut was better than a bore cut on this heavy forward leaner and they had to escape before the hinge was bendable enough (2 inch hinge was remaining), the tree split up above head high. Fortunately for the sawyer the escape route was used in time. A bore cut would have given the ability to set up the hinge to 10% or less, which will bend, before the pressure causes the split.
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