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The picture's description was (mostly) valid, but the picture itself can be easily measured to be providing invalid cutting technique. The depth of face cut is ~1/6 (measured) instead of the ~1/3 (described) needed for proper felling. Also, the diameter percentages don't add up in any way. Most common felling techniques say to have 1/3 face cut (down to 1/5 depending on how the width grows, since it should cover about 80% of the width, and how you want the tree to fall, but 1/3 is the most common number) and about 10-20% hinge. The usual cut would be thus ~30-35% face cut, 10-15% hinge, and about 50-60% back cut. In extreme cases, you can get away with 1/5 face cut, but that's 70% back cut, max. That's why normally only the face cut depth and hinge width are described: they decide if the tree falls properly. The back cut must simply match them.

Also, the picture shows a tree that has damaged core. Using such a tree for demonstration purposes in a layman article is also problematic: such trees should be cut with special care and require additional knowledge, and thus are not suited for demonstration. 95.197.187.86 (talk) 19:02, 13 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]