Tree felling vids

[davidwyby]

Linky no worky…

 

[Burnham]

Sometimes that just the way of it...you see something or another that indicates that the hinge may not function 100%. You make accommodations for that in your hinge or your gun. And then the damn tree goes like the hinge wood was perfect. Or that there was no lean.

It can make you crazy. But the way through is more time in the barrel. Experience really does help. I can make a balls-up of a felling cut to this day...but I don't have it happen very often anymore. Five decades of putting saw to wood really does make a difference.

Most especially if across those decades you are given the chance to cut different species from different regions under different conditions. Being sent all across the western US, and even a couple of stints into the southeastern states for fireline cutting, is one of my secret weapons, I like to think.

Be assured though...as soon as you think you've about got this tree cutting thing well in hand, you will most likely get schooled by the least likely tree. I sure have .

 

[davidwyby]

I have really enjoyed cutting and studying different trees and methods in different places.

I may get the chance to grind in that muscle memory/experience this summer. Gent whose place we were cutting at has a lot of caldor fire toasted trees. Smaller than I’d like, but practice is practice. Repetition…

 

[davidwyby]

Fixed

 

[gf beranek]

Timber!

 

[cory]

70 y o faller

 

[gf beranek]

When I moved to Ft. Bragg there were a lot of fallers working into their 70s.

Full retirement wasn't an option for most.

 

[cory]

Lotta cutters in their 60s and 70s in the comments section

 

[gf beranek]

Good for all those that can still do it.

 

[Tree09]

Our full pension is 62, i cry just thinking about it. I'm hoping I'll be able to convince some apprentices to roll me around in an office chair or something, like I'm the respected elder who's there to point vaguely at random things with a stick rule and mumble incoherently

 

[Kaveman]

Our full pension is 62, i cry just thinking about it. I'm hoping I'll be able to convince some apprentices to roll me around in an office chair or something, like I'm the respected elder who's there to point vaguely at random things with a stick rule and mumble incoherently

Can I have that job? You can even smack me with a stick when you want to go faster.

 

[treebilly]

I’m hoping to be able to retire at 60. And that won’t be a full retirement. It’ll be more like take a few months off at a time to adventure and then a bit of time at work to stay useful.

 

[stig]

Retirement age here is 67.
That is me next month.
Got no plans about retiring, there are still plenty of trees need felling and plenty of apprentices need teaching.

 

[Mellow]

I'm sort of semi-retired at 63 but I plan to keep doing tree work for another 7 to 10 years. My dad was still helping me out occasionally well in his 90's.

 

[Ryan]

I don't think about retiring as much as just paying off my mortgage. I'll keep working right to the point where I dig a hole and pull the dirt in on myself with my last breath.

 

[Mick!]

It’s great to be able to do it, without having to do it to pay the bills.

I hope to give up running my own show/climbing trees in 3 years, then, for a year or three, just do days on the ground/drive a machine for others for beer money.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

I'm sort of semi-retired at 63 but I plan to keep doing tree work for another 7 to 10 years. My dad was still helping me out occasionally well in his 90's.

Ditto.
Just need 10 more years and the mortgage is gone. Might cash out first once my parent leave this world.

 

[stig]

If I ran around a tree as many times as this guy in order to fell it, maybe I should swich to being paid by mileage instead of cubic meters.

 

[gf beranek]

I'm assuming that line was used to hold the side lean or favor.

Hard to tell, but a little deeper undercut might have prevented the splitting.

 

[Mellow]

All that fuss and it still barber chaired.

 

[gf beranek]

Great show. Terrible ending.

 

[davidwyby]

I think it was leaning heavy to the lay. Maybe also already split. I don’t think they were pulling to the lay with the rope. I would have bore cut.

@stig he just needed a…..













….longer bar! 😆

 

[davidwyby]

Here’s another to make us feel better about ourselves.

 

[stig]

Hinges, we don't need no stinking hinges!

 

[Kaveman]

Never trust anyone who can't manage to put their hat on straight. Nothing goof can come of it.