Tree felling vids

[SeanKroll]

Better pick it up in the largest possible piece!!!

 

[Mick!]

Worth a look.
Career changing fook up.

 

[cory]

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Dead sticks like that can really ruin your day. Best use guy lines and pull lines to mitigate the hinge failing possibilities. Or a lift.

 

[Mick!]

long dead as well.

 

[stig]

Or move the cars.
One strict rule we adhere to at my company.
Move anything that can be moved, before falling a tree that can reach it.

I have too many stories of loggers hitting their own or a workmate's truck, because they trusted too much in their own skills or simply were lazy.

 

[Mick!]

You get a quick look at the stump before the end of the first clip.
Any stump readers out there care to opine?

 

[Mellow]

Kind of blurry but it looks like it fell right where it was aimed.

 

[Mick!]

I know what you mean but..
The white thing is the handle of the jack, so it did go sideways.
That black line through the middle is deceiving, maybe a rot line from a twist years back.

 

[SeanKroll]

Guys who jack big trees know how to aim a tree.



Complacency bites people in the ass.

I don't always move things with good green trees. Might bite me.

 

[Burnham]

I cannot see enough detail to tell a thing.

 

[stig]

This is just me being a monday morning quarterback.
Why do a European type low stump on a tree like that.

 

[SeanKroll]

?

 

[stig]

Where do you most often come across rot and decaying fibers in trees?
Near the ground.
So on an iffy one like that one, go Burnham style and make as high a stump as possible.

That is what we do with the armillaria infested ash trees.
Then we cut the stump down, so as not end up having a forwarder stuck on it,

Or maybe I should just man up to the fact that I know shit about rot in PNC trees and shut up.

There is a first time for everything

 

[SeanKroll]

Isn't it cut at about 3+'?

 

[SeanKroll]

I'm with you about higher stumps.

 

[stig]

Isn't it cut at about 3+'?

I think the size of that tree is fooling me into thinking the stump is lower than it is.

 

[gf beranek]

Me thinks a guy line was in order on that brute, and the jack should have been behind the other corner. But really too blurry to tell either way for sure.

Hope he had insurance. Yeow!

 

[pantheraba]

That dark line looks like four wedges to me.

 

[Mick!]

That dark line looks like four wedges to me.

How did they get them so deep?

 

[stig]

I need new glasses.
That dark line looks like a dark line to me.

 

[lxskllr]

Looks like a good drop to me. He got all three trucks. I don't think I could do better than two.

 

[pantheraba]

Zoom in

 

[Mick!]

Zoom in

I did.
I see what you mean but the wedges would be behind the hinge 2ft into the back cut.

 

[Mick!]

This is where the black void comes from.