The felling cut should meet the point of the notch. When the tree starts to fall, the hinge will help guide the tree to fall in the desired direction.

Brooke came home to find the tree that had shaded her family’s home for generations suddenly gone — and no one can explain ...

Hinge cutting is simply cutting halfway through a tree and allowing the top to fall over. The top creates instant cover but does not die, so it continues to produce leaves and vertical shoots. If ...

Hinge cutting is simply cutting halfway through a tree and allowing the top to fall over. The top creates instant cover but does not die, so it continues to produce leaves and vertical shoots. If ...

“Minutes to cut down and centuries to grow back, if it ever does,” is the devastating verdict of experts on the iconic Sycamore Gap tree after it was felled. Northumbria Police launched an ...

In contrast, consider hinge-cutting (and don’t spray) trees deer like to browse on. For trees deer don’t browse on, girdle and spray or completely fell the tree and spray the stump.” Timber Stand ...

Indian practice Studio Hinge has completed Forest of Knowledge, a library in Mumbai that sits beneath a tree-like canopy of latticed wood.

While making a cut in the tree, for reasons unknown, he is said to have cut through a 'hinge' that had been created which is designed to control the direction the tree falls.

TWO pals used a chainsaw to chop down the iconic Sycamore Gap tree in an act of “mindless vandalism”, a court heard. Daniel Graham, 39, and Adam Carruthers, 32, took just two minutes and 41 ...

The HSE said it fell in the "unintended direction" as the cut made "did not leave a functioning hinge", which is when a portion of the trunk is kept intact to help guide the tree's fall. HSE ...

“Minutes to cut down and centuries to grow back, if it ever does,” is the devastating verdict of experts on the iconic Sycamore Gap tree after it was felled.