Lot of firewood there, including the house.

Grizz

I must be a bad person for laughing so hard at these "fail" compilations. The Russian traffic videos are just amazing.

The Chainsaw Wizards!!

I think i know that guy everyone of them

I would just as soon handle a rattlesnake.

Just like Trump running the country!

Non stop train wreck!

I cut my first standing tree at age 12 I have cut thousands of them.

When it came time to remove two very large pines next to the house last year I hired a local tree service.

Not that I could not have done it. I cut many trees in tougher situations. He cut them exactly like I would have.

I have known him all my life he said why don't you do it your self.

I told him you carry a million dollar liability insurance policy.

I only have a two hundred thousand dollar policy and a thousand dollar deductible.

And one is suppose to get wiser with age.

Two times in my life.

I have felt the OH SH!T feeling when the tree started going the wrong way. Fortunately both times it didn't cost me a lot of money.

It was 500 dollars well spent not having to worry about it.

The trees that split while cutting them is called barber chairing.

A lot of times one not tell if that is going to happen until one is cutting them.

It is a very dangerous situation for the cutter.

About only thing one can do is run very fast.

That is one of the reason one always have a preplanned escape route.

When we visited Germany, I was asked to remove a similar tree behind my wife's cousin's house. A little reluctant, but I knew how to run a chain saw, which turned out to be electric.. They introduced me to the neighbors as a logger they had specifically imported from Canada to do the job.

Grizz

Yes, have been there a few times myslef.

We had to remove two large maple trees right on the property line beside the Highway in 2006.

Asked the neigbor who had just retired from falling trees, he says I know you can fall those tress, I reply yes I can. But I went up into the trees and attached a 3/4" rope rather high up, so I will be driving the truck pulling the trees away from you and the highway.

Then two years ago had to replace the siding on the west side of my shop, and had to trim a couple of Oregon Ash trees.
So put the long ladder up into the trees from the back side and rachet straped the top of the ladder to the tree so it would not fall down. Borrowed a eletric saw with a 15 foot extension and worked from the outer edges of the limbs into towards the trunk. Just trim off a few feet at a time and carefully let them fall to the gound.

JW

quote:

I reply yes I can. But I went up into the trees and attached a 3/4" rope rather high up, so I will be driving the truck pulling the trees away from you and the highway.

I like to use a 5 ton come along and a 100 feet of 5/16 cable. 99.9 percent of the time the follow the cable down.

On real tough ones I use two cables one on the come along other to a truck or tractor.

The biggest oh sh!t moment was I was only using the tractor.

At the most critical time the tractor lost traction in some mud and the tree went exactly opposite where it should have.

Insurance is good to have.

True story.

Had this person locally, who had about 15 acres up the hill, a small year round creek flowed thru it. There was a rather good sized Cedar tree on the creek bank, that kept getting undercut each winter, so the tree leaned more and more toward the country road and the PUD power lines.

He would not let the PUD come onto his property to remove the tree.

So he sent one of his ( then ) teenage boys up the tree with a chain, and they attached all his ropes and chains to an upper section of the tree. He then hooked the end of all this odds and ends to his old Ford 9N tractor so the tree could be pulled back away from the road and power lines. The old man did a really nice under cut, and once he bound up the saw bar in the back cut ( the tree started to go the wrong way ). The boy started pulling the tree back away with the old tractor. Everything went as planned, the tree was pulled the correct way, but the only thing they did not figure out was the length of all his odds and ends vs the height of the tree.

The son bailed off the tractor just before the very top section, the top 15 foot or so of the tree hit the old tractor, seems he did not have a long enough line vs the height of the tree.

No one hurt, I heard this story many times from the old mans Sons, and Grandsons.

JW

Lots of timber where I live, a friend of mine was a logger and owned a sawmill. He hired a "mutual acquaintance" to do some cutting with him, the guy bought a Stihl 54, this all happened back when the 54 was one of the largest saws Stihl made.

Anyway, the guy gets the saw stuck in a tree, goes to tell my friend who is on a different tree and says he'll be over soon as his tree is cut up so guy goes back to the saw and decides to smoke his pipe while waiting. He used strike anywhere matches and decided the muffler of the saw would be an excellent place to strike the match, which it did and then caught the gas that was dripping from the saw on fire. I guess the other person was a ways away because when he got there the fire was almost burned out and the saw was pretty indistinguishable from what was a pretty new saw that the "paint hadn't even been worn off the bar yet!"

I have a drill press + a mill table but that does not mean I'm a machinest. Like damn near ANY "accident" if one backs up + honestly rethinks the issue;you were at fault somehow.

Unfortunately, most people have no idea of or appreciation for the mass of a mature tree. I wonder how many of those “accidents” resulted in fatalities. Somehow these stupid “ pratfalls” don’t seem funny. Most of these are Darwin awards candidates.

There is a reason workers comp rates for loggers are the highest of any occupation in Mn. Even knowledgeable, skilled, full time loggers are injured felling trees. Scary stuff.

It is truly a very dangerous business.