Wall of Shame: Wannabe Experts

[pantheraba]

I got the impression he was not sure of what he was doing most of the time...some of the time I can understand. I have gotten a saw hung before too, no biggie there but his climbing rope was often in the wrong place. Later on when he was polesawing big limbs (a good use of the pole saw, I agree) I thought the high lead near his climbing line that was left up in the tree was going to snag the rope when the tree cut loose. Enough arm chairing.

 

[woodworkingboy]

A variety of personalities make up the business.

 

[Raj]

I only watched the video on my phone, did he have a second tie in?

 

[pantheraba]

Nope, I could not see one.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

He got hurt a while back and even filmed being hauled off by the ambulance.. He is still hard to watch ... I always feel he is out of his element doing tree work.

 

[MasterBlaster]

"Good job?"

No.

 

[pantheraba]

He got hurt a while back and even filmed being hauled off by the ambulance.. He is still hard to watch ... I always feel he is out of his element doing tree work.

I think that says it best, Stephen..."out of his element". Sorry to hear he got hurt.

 

[climbernz]

words fail me

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Someone needs to make that video a parody and change the words to the song "Chainsaw" to "Polesaw" and put it to it..

 

[Mick!]

That polesaw though, wow! Was it ported or something? Sounded loud.
Mine would balk a lot on wood that big.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

you should hear one of the FS 250's with a pole saw head on it

 

[Mick!]

Just defending him a bit, on a multiple hang up like that who knows exactly what's going to happen?
Sometimes you have to cut a bit and see what happens.
I'm not saying he's a Jedi or anything but I didn't think it was THAT bad.

 

[MasterBlaster]

If that was a good job for him, I'd hate to see a bad one.

 

[Chris E]

I'll say one thing, that's a bloody good pole saw!
Honestly Chris I couldn't see too much hideous there, pinched his saw under silly circumstances, but got the tree on the floor, not too stylish admittedly.
It's difficult to judge without being there.
I like the American phrase "armchair quarterbacks"
Anyway, not sure it belongs on the wall of shame.

Yea that's a fair point, in all honesty it probably belongs in a thread titled "silly mistakes" or similar. The start of the vid is chuckleworthy that's for sure. I also hope the guy keeps safe(ish).

Chris

 

[flushcut]

I didn't read the whole thread so hopefully this hasn't been already posted, imo this guy is amongst the best at what he does-bad tree work

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGNl5QGFd6Y

This guy was on AS for a while, a true train wreck! I hope he is still alive because he has videos where he should have bought the farm a couple of times.

 

[SouthSoundTree]

"Good Job Uncle Doug. "

Ummm...Hmmm.

 

[MasterBlaster]

We don't need no stinking rope!!!

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[Mick!]

Seen that one before, one of the best.

 

[stig]

I remember Burnham and myself agreeing that any logger worth his salt could have felled that one with wedges.
But then we both use hingewood

 

[pantheraba]

hahahha...hinge??? what, pray tell, is that?

 

[woodworkingboy]

Still lucky, a fairly soft landing

 

[gf beranek]

I'm not so sure about that, Jay.

 

[FireFighterZero]

Holy moly. Might make good shade/insulation now?

 

[CurSedVoyce]

I would love to see the stump. I like stump forensics.

 

[GASoline71]

That cat has a lot of stones to just stand at the stump as it's going backwards. Wow...

Gary