Inspect Tree and Plan Fall Direction

this now we can get an idea of the scale of this tree I'm going to wrap the measuring tape around it and just see how big it is so there's no use in rewriting the book on how to cut a tree I can see that it's got a lean that way just a little bit however the wind is blowing that way so we're going to notch it out just perfect this is a monstrous log guys but as you can see there's some disease here there is some disease this Mark is coming off this tree reaching around it's more than six foot five uh map wrapping the tape around it what is our reach here 72 inches around guys so 72 inches around through and through we're probably looking something that's going to really press the Sawmill about 28 inches through so the chainsaw we are using has a 24 inch bar so what we're going to do is we're going to notch it out over here and we're going to lean it right over and try and drop it right over there I'm going to take a stick and I'm going to be brave on camera I'm going to lay that stick out and show you where I want to put the tree and then when we get done dropping it hopefully we land right where we want to I'm going to take a little stick tie ribbon around it and show you guys where we're going to lay