Tree felling vids
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CurSedVoyce
California Hillbilly
Looks like punky rotten hazard nasty POS beetle kill dangerous risky fuggen tree. I doubt it a jack would help. Like lifting rotten paper.
BeerGeek
Tree Numbnutz
Looking at second video, it would appear they were trying to drop it out into the open forest, but the rot/defect (which Mick pointed out, not wedges) caused it to give way almost 90 degrees to the left of the lay as the jack lifted it, causing their 3-car calamity. Still looking like rocket scientists for not at least guy-lining it as Gerry and others mentioned.
I was getting ready to post when you did. I grabbed it with youtube-dl, and it brought the other vid in as well. When things started not working, it would have been a good idea to clear the area, and maybe do some thinking about how to proceed.
pete mctree
Treehouser
I swiped across and watched the second video- too much side lean and not enough hinge IMO. Guy line for the win.
CurSedVoyce
California Hillbilly
Hit the house just past the vehicles as well.
flushcut
TreeHouser
No sound holding wood lost her 90* to the lay is my guess. Or that and he cut thru his far corner. But, rot is my guess.
It looked real dead from my recliner and I would have a line or two in it with the jack.
It looked real dead from my recliner and I would have a line or two in it with the jack.
gf beranek
Old Schooler
Praises to Allah. Give me a line.
pantheraba
More biners!!!
Good sleuthing on the black void, Mick...not wedges. That makes sense.
In the opening photo of the vid, it definetly looks like there is a line tied around the base of the butt and traveling upwards, as it if did indeed have a line somewhere up in the tree, one end tied off near the base, other end tied off to give some pull
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murphy4trees
TreeHouser
100%.. if it's got wheels move it!!! pretty simple
gf beranek
Old Schooler
History shows that pick-up trucks are tree magnets. Especially 4 pick-ups in a row.
stikine
Treehouser
This rapid learning report seems relevant to the conversation.
flushcut
TreeHouser
They needed a bigger saw.
pantheraba
More biners!!!
Maybe it's just me but that is kind of embarrassing. They used a chainsaw for a springboard. And broke multiple ropes pulling with a pickup truck. I have heard Jerry and Burnham talk about using cable and real metal (dozer?) to pull big trees. Then the last shot shows it was about a 50' spar/stub. Couldn't they have used a jack with better effect? Maybe their short saws left some internal posts that were hard to break. Dumb armchair Georgia boy asking.
pantheraba
More biners!!!
To me the danger of breaking ropes is that it might set up a whiplash effect where when the tree resists the truck direction and the rope breaks...that could let the tree spring back in the opposite direction and break the hinge and then lose the tree 180 degrees to the intended direction.
I had to watch after I saw this. I'd beat someone's ass if they stood on my saw bar.
Mick!
TreeHouser
I wasn’t too fond of the whooping and hollering at the end, kinda dumb.
pete mctree
Treehouser
They did seem a long way out of there depth. I have never felled anything of that magnitude, so I can only imagine the difficulty that size brings
pantheraba
More biners!!!
Way out of my depth, too.
SeanKroll
Treehouser
I thought it was a clever improvised springboard.
You know it's a big, heavy bar when it has a helper handle. Never seen one used for felling in the modern times.
10 hours to fell...wow.
You know it's a big, heavy bar when it has a helper handle. Never seen one used for felling in the modern times.
10 hours to fell...wow.
SeanKroll
Treehouser
Always have tightly driven wedges.
stikine
Treehouser
Kinda looks like they showed up to a gun fight with knives. Guess it all worked out in the end but they don't look like fallers to me.
Me too. Cant see how it would hurt anything.
I think they were definetly arbs not fallers
