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That is badass for sure, Stig!

About 10-12 years ago I was doing a lot of hand conditioning under the direction of my teacher, Dr. U Maung Gyi. After about 11 months of conditioning I was able to break coconuts with a palm heel strike...I broke 3 of them. Not always first try but they broke. We have had some of our bando...

Some of those crane fails are slow motion train wrecks...hard to look away! That "stand up the tree" at 7:27 was very good.

One of the very best tree videos I have seen. I love to watch him work.

Mind-blowing!! Never crossed my mind that was even possible.

Yep... I have probably watched most of his videos. Alex and I have both picked up a lot of techniques and tricks from watching him. He has a good YouTube channel

Pretty much, yes. Making it up as we go. Letting the tree pull up the stump for us, maybe? No grinding necessary.

We have a cankered up gum tree to remove. This smaller tree was in the way and had to come down. We decided to push it down.

Mr. Fast Mover screwed the pooch on that one. Haste made waste.

It must be catching. It did not show up for me either.. hmmm.

It did not really look too big until I saw the picture of him in the top...BIG wood there. Huge "thud" when pieces hit. What was he sending down the line at 24:00?

True that. They got a hard job done with what they had. Give them credit for that. Easy to armchair.. hard to be there and do the work.

Way out of my depth, too.

To me the danger of breaking ropes is that it might set up a whiplash effect where when the tree resists the truck direction and the rope breaks...that could let the tree spring back in the opposite direction and break the hinge and then lose the tree 180 degrees to the intended direction.

Maybe it's just me but that is kind of embarrassing. They used a chainsaw for a springboard. And broke multiple ropes pulling with a pickup truck. I have heard Jerry and Burnham talk about using cable and real metal (dozer?) to pull big trees. Then the last shot shows it was about a 50'...

Good sleuthing on the black void, Mick...not wedges. That makes sense.

Zoom in

That dark line looks like four wedges to me.

Good work there. Small tops play with my head, too.

Two very good and descriptive phrases. Well put.