Tree felling vids

[Burnham]

Gorgeous, Stephen!

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Thanks B
Love the crunch on that one

 

[CurSedVoyce]

 

[stig]

With that much pressure on the stem, probably the best outcome he could gave hoped for.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Possibly.

 

[Altissimus]

Might be my service here in Hooterville but none of Stephen's last few vids show and or work. I'll turn it off then on

 

[lxskllr]

They're facebook vids; at least a couple were. I had to fire up a different browser cause I block facebook stuff. I don't want to get in the habit of doing that though. Facebook should do the world a favor and just die.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Only reason I'll post a facebook vid is because I can't find another form.
Sorry for any inconveience.

 

[lxskllr]

It's cool. I don't expect everyone to accommodate my eccentric preferences. I'll either work around it or do without.

I'm more militant regarding government services that use proprietary and commercial software/services. They have no business using platforms like facebook or twitter, even as an auxiliary source of public information. Host it yourself using software you control(that is also auditable by the public), or don't do it at all.

 

[Burnham]

That last one was going to be a nasty thing no matter what method you went at it with.

I think I might have been inclined to have a go at the leaner on the right rather than the supporting tree. But that's just looking at a pic/vid. No way to know without actually being there.

 

[SeanKroll]

I believe someone intentionally started a barber chair thread before Sean. Maybe I got my words out of order just now.

I was thinking more of a barberchair prevention thread.






Pulling the trees to failure would have been safer.

 

[davidwyby]

On the euro one I think he faced but bypassed, maybe left a tiny hinge and the wedge disturbed it. Also notice all the spinning and rolling…lot of limb interaction we can’t see above I think.

 

[davidwyby]

 

[Mick!]

Been around for a while, I don’t think that was a close call, I think someone got killed there.

Edit, that’s not the one i was thinking of.

 

[gf beranek]

It looked bad.

 

[Bermy]

Just because you are in a cherry picker doesn't mean you don't still move away from the stump

 

[gf beranek]

Looked liked Incense Cedar. That multiple spar broad top collided with the trees and mountain slope it was directed fall. Soon as it started going that fellow should have been bugging out of there.

 

[Bermy]

More like an incensed cedar...it fought back

 

[davidwyby]

At what size do trees start breaking pavement and pipes?

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Looked like giving no fuggs to me. Guess if he busted the asphalt, was not his problem.

 

[Altissimus]

Any pipes wouldn't be harmed is my guess , below frost line wouldn't even see or hear when it hit ...

 

[davidwyby]

small town over from here I heard a guy dumped one of our big Australian river red gum eucalyptus and managed to break a water main

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Desert environments bury their lines more shallow than areas that can have frost. Some of our water mains were not all that far below the sidewalk.

 

[SeanKroll]

Hot asphalt is more malleable.

Road are built tougher than driveways.

That thing bounced!

A straight spar, hitting on the end would be worse, I suspect.

I've put partial depth cuts in a deciduous spar to break on impact with plywood covered asphalt, bridging the sidewalk, in a mobile home park in summer.

 

[flushcut]

Code for the frost line is four feet minimum in my neck of the woods for residential water lines and eight for main lines. But dumping that tree on the road is very hackish, it would have done better if the canopy were still on, softer impact.