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Determining a Tree’s Lean

by Carl Demrow

October 23, 2008

Since only a very few trees grow absolutely vertically, determining and adjusting for the lean of a tree is an important skill for any sawyer preparing to fell a tree. For the sake of discussion, we’ll consider the word “lean” to mean that the center of a tree’s mass is …


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