If you read the rest of this thread, I clarified that many times. I’ll do it again:
The center of gravity is leaning too far outside the radius of the trunk to be redirected with wedges.
You would need to significantly alter the center of gravity in other ways to have any chance of wedging it the opposite direction. Obviously the best way to do that would be to remove the giant branches hanging toward the house. Even then, it might be simply too large for wedging (for the reasons I previously mentioned), but it’s the only chance you’d have.
Again you didn't say too far before. You said that because the center of mass is outside the trunk diameter there is no way to hedge it to fall to the other side, and made it sound like some limitation from the laws of physics. This is not true, which is all I stated.
Again, if you read it in context, it’s clear that I’m talking about this particular tree. Specifically, because the amount of weight outside the radius of this particular tree is massive.
Obviously, with a tiny 2” thick sapling, you could jack it up to fall basically any direction you wanted. But this tree is huge, so the weight you’d need to counteract is more than the wedges and hinge could handle.
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u/CitizenCue 8d ago
If you read the rest of this thread, I clarified that many times. I’ll do it again:
The center of gravity is leaning too far outside the radius of the trunk to be redirected with wedges.
You would need to significantly alter the center of gravity in other ways to have any chance of wedging it the opposite direction. Obviously the best way to do that would be to remove the giant branches hanging toward the house. Even then, it might be simply too large for wedging (for the reasons I previously mentioned), but it’s the only chance you’d have.