How do you fell a tree with an adze?

12th August 2021


	How to fell a tree with an adze?


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			With a lot of patience, it’s possible to cut down a tree using an adze.

			You’ll need to use a long-handled adze with a flat blade for this job.

			If you use a lighter adze, you will be able to work for longer periods without resting. This is time consuming, hard work.

			Step 1 – Start cut Use your adze to start to shave the bark off the outside of the tree. Keep chopping until you’re shaving wood.

			Step 2 – Persevere and use elbow grease Keep chopping! The idea is to wear a large portion of the tree away on one side and you’re going to be shaving it away piece by piece.

			Keep shaving until you are more than half way through the tree trunk.

			Step 3 – Shave around rest of tree Once you’re there, widen the area that you’re shaving and approach the tree from various different angles to whittle the trunk down. You need to plan to finish on the opposite side to the one you started on.

			Step 4 – Timber! Once you wear the tree trunk thin enough, the weight of the tree will cause it to fall. As you cut past the mid point initially and are now carving from the opposite side, the tree will fall away from you.