Porkbrick
TreeHouser
no chit!
MasterBlaster
Administrator Emeritus
It sounds like that guy needs to sue his neighbor.
I had just about the same thing, only it was the landlord screaming. It seems the person who called in for a bid and paid for the job was just a tenant!
I had just about the same thing, only it was the landlord screaming. It seems the person who called in for a bid and paid for the job was just a tenant!
candoarms
TreeHouser
It was my second year of logging for firewood when this happened to me.
A kind elderly lady allowed me to take out three rows of dead green ash trees down the center of her shelterbelt here in North Dakota. All of the trees had died due to flood water. Most of the trees had already fallen over, and many were hung up in other downed trees. A lot of careful planning goes into making even a single cut, as the physics of the fall must be planned out. Most of the time I get it right.
On this particular morning, I came across three trees that had piled atop one another. Standing below, I tried to figure out what would happen if a made a cut here, and then a cut there, and so on. I made my first cut, then all hell broke loose. The bottom tree began to lean over toward me, then snapped. I stepped back, tripped over a bunch of underbrush, and watched as the whole mess headed right for me. The bottom tree......the one holding the whole mess up, managed to get caught in a crotch of a tree just above my head, stopping the whole mess dead in its tracks. I had about three feet of free space to crawl out from under that mess.
Lesson learned. I now use supporting ropes or cables, attached to healthy nearby trees, when tackling similar situations.
Joel
A kind elderly lady allowed me to take out three rows of dead green ash trees down the center of her shelterbelt here in North Dakota. All of the trees had died due to flood water. Most of the trees had already fallen over, and many were hung up in other downed trees. A lot of careful planning goes into making even a single cut, as the physics of the fall must be planned out. Most of the time I get it right.
On this particular morning, I came across three trees that had piled atop one another. Standing below, I tried to figure out what would happen if a made a cut here, and then a cut there, and so on. I made my first cut, then all hell broke loose. The bottom tree began to lean over toward me, then snapped. I stepped back, tripped over a bunch of underbrush, and watched as the whole mess headed right for me. The bottom tree......the one holding the whole mess up, managed to get caught in a crotch of a tree just above my head, stopping the whole mess dead in its tracks. I had about three feet of free space to crawl out from under that mess.
Lesson learned. I now use supporting ropes or cables, attached to healthy nearby trees, when tackling similar situations.
Joel
MasterBlaster
Administrator Emeritus
Once you've done everything wrong (and lived through it!) at least once, THEN you're an Expert!!!
candoarms
TreeHouser
Butch,
When I was a young man in the Army, our favorite saying was "What doesn't kill you just makes you tougher".
Now that I'm much older, the saying goes like this......"Those things that don't kill you just make you crippled". LOL
Joel
When I was a young man in the Army, our favorite saying was "What doesn't kill you just makes you tougher".
Now that I'm much older, the saying goes like this......"Those things that don't kill you just make you crippled". LOL
Joel
MasterBlaster
Administrator Emeritus
Ha! Ain't that the truth!
woodworkingboy
TreeHouser
I have a similar experience watching it coming down from above while on my back, and surviving. Funny, I never memorized anything in school that well, except perhaps the multiplication tables.
Tucker943
Bamboo Plantation Owner
I flopped a tree on top of myself when I was 21 or so. It bent me clean in half so my chin was touching my ankles. The crown of the tree was wide enough that the trunk didn't hold me to the ground. The trunk stayed off the ground about 24 inches. I don't even remember how it happened entirely. I was not experienced in falling trees and was working for a company. I remember it wasn't a huge tree though. More then enough to kill me though.
