woodworkingboy
TreeHouser
Cool vid watched big screen.
Tree felling vids
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Burnham
Woods walker
Well handled.
murphy4trees
TreeHouser
He was paying $80/hr to contract climbers after Isabel in 2003, JP Sanborn, Chad Brey, Joe Cornell and Lance ?.. Plus covering their hotels... I thought that was really generous of him..
gf beranek
Old Schooler
That was sweet, Willy. Thanks!!
SkwerI
Treehouser
Yup, that was the one where he dropped a tree on his own truck, right?
Burnham
Woods walker
No??!! Really??!!
gf beranek
Old Schooler
I must have missed that one.
Wish I have a vid when I laid a top across my old Scout.
I have a good explanation for it if anybody cares to hear it.
Wish I have a vid when I laid a top across my old Scout.
I have a good explanation for it if anybody cares to hear it.
Burnham
Woods walker
Start now...
MasterBlaster
Administrator Emeritus
No, start NOW.
bonner1040
Nick from Ohio
I am ready.
MasterBlaster
Administrator Emeritus
Oh, I can feel him typing... prepare for a new thread, any minute. 
ClimbingSawyer
TreeHouser
Nice!
SkwerI
Treehouser
Always looking forward to another yarn spun by Jerry B. 
canadiantreeman
TreeHouser
Nice vid, Willie. Tay really liked the sound of the top coming down...I had to replay it 3 times 'louder' for him!
sotc
Dormant hero!!
It's in his blood 
canadiantreeman
TreeHouser
Got that right. I came home a while back to find him attempting to cut down a red oak I planted when Ryker was born...with a plastic file from one of those kiddie tool sets. I didn't know whether to be mad or proud
sotc
Dormant hero!!
Yeah, my father in law asked if I would look over his birch one day cause it was fading. Axe marks all over the trunk..... TREVVVVVVVIIIIINN!!
canadiantreeman
TreeHouser
woodworkingboy
TreeHouser
If you guys can't teach your kids more discipline, at least quickly teach them how to determine lean. 
Burnham
Woods walker
gf beranek
Old Schooler
Well, in a nutshell here it is. I parked my scout on the outside of an old landing that was all grown over by waw myrtle. My plan was to lay a redwood on the landing. It stood 60 feet below the landing on a steep slope. For the steepness of the slope I knew I would have to use a reference mark to find the lay to put this tree on the landing. I stood on the edge of it looking down at the tree and then drew a line of sight to the skyline. I found a top of a redwood on the far side of the landing I figured would be good to sight in the undercut. Oops
So I went down to the tree and looked up the slope and found the top, but it wasn't the top I figured. Second growth tops all look the same, dammit.
So I fell the tree up slope to lay on the landing. The butt rocked up in the over thirty feet. The tree save out good. right where I sighted the undercut,, I was happy. alright!
I climbed up the slope, got on the tree to plug my tape into the butt. Now here's the good part. The landing having been over grown I could not see that the tree laid off gunn by about 45 degrees. Not until I walked the tape out to make a log. Then I looked up and seen the top I wanted to gunn the tree to was not where the tree landed.
I then realize this tree I had just fell had crossed the log road. I didn't even think of my truck. I was more worried about having topped the tree in the road and causing even bigger problems.
I run out the tree so fast, to see what I did, that I forgot to unplug my tape. Snapped it off. When I broke through the brush of that overgrown landing and found the top of this tree I had just fell broke right over my Scout. Damn!
Now the battery was crushed and causing an electrical fire. So I ripped the hood off to disconnect the battery cables. I could do that because the impact broke the hinges. Kind of handy. I put out the electrical fire.
Windshield crushed and cab I could still dive the rig out of there and all the way home. 75 miles no windshield and the steering wheel cocked a near horizontal.
I think a compass could have come in handy on that one.
So I went down to the tree and looked up the slope and found the top, but it wasn't the top I figured. Second growth tops all look the same, dammit.
So I fell the tree up slope to lay on the landing. The butt rocked up in the over thirty feet. The tree save out good. right where I sighted the undercut,, I was happy. alright!
I climbed up the slope, got on the tree to plug my tape into the butt. Now here's the good part. The landing having been over grown I could not see that the tree laid off gunn by about 45 degrees. Not until I walked the tape out to make a log. Then I looked up and seen the top I wanted to gunn the tree to was not where the tree landed.
I then realize this tree I had just fell had crossed the log road. I didn't even think of my truck. I was more worried about having topped the tree in the road and causing even bigger problems.
I run out the tree so fast, to see what I did, that I forgot to unplug my tape. Snapped it off. When I broke through the brush of that overgrown landing and found the top of this tree I had just fell broke right over my Scout. Damn!
Now the battery was crushed and causing an electrical fire. So I ripped the hood off to disconnect the battery cables. I could do that because the impact broke the hinges. Kind of handy. I put out the electrical fire.
Windshield crushed and cab I could still dive the rig out of there and all the way home. 75 miles no windshield and the steering wheel cocked a near horizontal.
I think a compass could have come in handy on that one.
woodworkingboy
TreeHouser
Jerry, that's a mishap with color! Must have screwed up your day plus some.
