Tree felling vids

[murphy4trees]

Guilty Pleasure..
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The Europeans are going to go crazy of the foot push on the stump cut... I couldn't help but post it

 

[MasterBlaster]

I've done the same.

Did that window stay intact? I was waiting to see that part... I'd use a rope to pull it away from the window.

 

[cory]

Those guys make me feel like an expert.

 

[MasterBlaster]

I AM an egg spurt!

 

[treebilly]

They've got shiney trucks and matching t-shirts

 

[CoreyYLTG]

The important thing is they have cones out. And I thought I was bad about ppe.

 

[SeanKroll]

The foot technique keeps one away from the exhaust/ dust/ dirt in the air. So does an idling blower chocked in place a tiny bit on the ground. Cools you down to have some wind, too.

 

[CoreyYLTG]

I don't have opposable thumbs on my feet yet. Kick back is one hell of a drug. Or at least it can get you some from a doctor.

 

[Burnham]

omg...

 

[Marc-Antoine]

I don't like the foot pushing but what scared me is that he sat under the heavy lean of a hollowed/decayed trunk, cutting it !

 

[NHlocal]

Agreed!
Sitting under it while cutting had me shaking my head.....maybe I'm doing it wrong.

 

[MasterBlaster]

I thought I was seeing something wrong...

 

[Marc-Antoine]

I would be very concerned to let him drive the Tree Mek !
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[cory]

The f'g shit people do with expensive, beautiful equipment.

 

[MasterBlaster]

I've done the same thing with a crane, only not so big and the hinge was a slab of beef. The operator would just lay it over...

 

[cory]

All different angles involved of course. And smaller as you say- that thing was enormous.

 

[SeanKroll]

A cable crane with some flexibility in the connection

 

[Marc-Antoine]

He should hold it by the back instead of by the front. I don't know if the rotator and the grapple can handle such a load, but at least they would take it in the right way, not forced upside down. These rotators are designed to sustain only an axial load and are mounted with a dandling joint. The driver put it in abutment on the side while the trunk wanted to move farther with some authority, tearing out the rotator.
Wrecking grapples are way more sturdy and designed for that, but I guess they are a bit more expensive.

 

[murphy4trees]

WIOndering if it wouldn't have been better to use a few logs to protect the street, notch and drop... old school..

Of course hind sight is 02/20, but still!

 

[cory]

I've never understood the logs-to-protect-the-street thing. Either no logs and divot the street with the spar, or divot the street with the cross logs?? Either way, divots.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Mmmm, not really - if you do it right.

 

[cory]

You have logs of different diameters and with irregularities etc, one or two usually take all the force instead of a bunch of them taking it. If they were all basically uniform you'd be in bidness.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Actually, because OF that, it acts like a collapsing structure spreading the weight all around.

 

[cory]

Hmm. I never thought of it that way.

 

[Tree09]

You can crib under the pad logs too, the large flat surface really spreads the force out so it lowers the psi even more. Made me look smarter than i am once or twice