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Post by Bwoods11 on Aug 15, 2018 8:28:54 GMT -6
My personal experience with hinge cutting, is it is worth it, but I would never hinge cut my entire woods. I like pockets of it, for diversity.
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Post by jbird on Aug 15, 2018 8:56:10 GMT -6
My experience with it is that you have to get sunlight in there. I like to hinge smaller trees and simply drop the larger ones. Leave a one to two foot stump and some will resprout. I have seen folks hinge smaller trees but be too fearful to remove the larger canopy trees which does very little. Some trees also handle hinging better than others. I struggle to hinge hard maples...they prefer to just snap for me. Hinging is just a tool, knowing when, where and how to use it....is the important part. You can't use a screw driver to fix everything!
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Post by wisco on Aug 17, 2018 11:33:01 GMT -6
I like Jbirds response. In a park like woods setting, dropping some trees with a low hinge cut and leaving it there gives you instant cover and future stump sprouts. If the top of the tree stays alive, even better. Harvesting the tree, you just get the stump sprouts and extra sunlight. I also like to use it for creating corridors. Creating the bedding areas with a canopy and very little underneath doesn't make a lot of sense to me though. Unless those tops are hitting the ground to provide that instant cover, you're not getting much out of it. If your goal is to remove undesirables and let sunlight in, the "hack and squirt" method can work well. Hack into the tree with a hatchet, squirt some concentrated roundup into the wound and the tree will die, bigger trees need more hacks. Removes invasives, lets sunlight hit the floor, and its much faster and easier. You just lose out on the stump sprouts and the instant cover from the tree top being on the ground.
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