Unbelievable screw up. This is definitely how not to chop down a tree.
Leaf it to the professionals.
Unbelievable screw up. This is definitely how not to chop down a tree.
Leaf it to the professionals.
I’ll bet he was thinking, “House or cars, house or cars.” I didn’t even see him there, I thought he was in the one tree above the cars because there was a box around it at first.
That tree should have been taken down in pieces. The pros would climb it and work their way down. Each piece roped off before its cut.
I had one cut in my backyard ten years ago. I didn’t even consider tackling it myself.
Why was someone standing there filming him chopping a tree in the first place?
(Is there a voice-over explanation? My computer doesn’t have sound on).
The only words spoken are “oh shit” as the tree falls.
My Dad grew up in a lumber camp, cutting trees from the time he was walking. Seriously - he still has the hand axe a lumberjack gave him when he was 4 years old.
I’ve seen him cut down some amazing trees with amazing precision. He pretty much looked at a tree, looked at the ground, and said “I’ll lie this one down right here” and then did it. But it took a lot of finesse and expertise.
Sorta the opposite of that video, which I just sent to him to watch. He’ll get a big kick out of it!
What they should have done was pull it in the direction they wanted with a pickup truck.
I like the way they loaded the pickup truck at the same time as felling the tree.
Any time a tree is withing falling distance of a home or valuable, extra care needs to be taken. A tree that is perfectly balanced and straight can generally be cut to fall in a given direction. If a tree leans toward a home, you can’t make it fall in the opposite direction without a huge offsetting force. The only sure way to do it is to top off the tree until it can’t hit the house. These trees are easy to climb, but climbing and using a saw is always a chore. These folks took the easy way and now they will have to work it off in hard work, hopefully at something they are better skilled at.
The perfect words for this situation.
that wood be funny but it was too punny.
That’s a Douglas fir, so this event probably happened in western WA or OR. I never understood Northwesterners’ fascination with cutting down trees for no good reason.
In the background you can hear the cutter yell “oh, no!” Oh, yes, moron.
Hey don’t bark at the guy.
You wanna make a house out of ME!
That is amazing. Didn’t anyone there have any sense of geometry and distance? On the other hand, I’ve never seen the operation of felling a tree and loading it into the tray of a truck completed in one single motion before, so there’s that.
You wouldn’t believe the amount of sunlight those things can block out all year round. We’re all sunlight deprived to begin with, so every ray is precious. (Well, that plus the more obvious reasons of very aggressive roots and the tendency to fall on houses. I would have chosen to take down the tree in the video too, albeit with a professional crew.)
My grandfather used to use a block and tackle to pull trees in the direction he wanted them to fall. It worked well in the forest around his cabin, since there were always trees at a suitable distance to attach the other end of the rope to. I never saw him cut anything larger than eighteen inches in diameter, though, and it’s possible that I’m overestimating that. The tree in the video definitely calls for a professional crew.
So how badly do you think it damaged the house? It didn’t appear to crush it. But who knows if the roof trusses were broken or outright snapped. And did it mess up the shingles? Maybe, maybe not.
With that big of a tree, falling, I’m surprised the roof didn’t completely collapse.
I have a dead pine tree that is seriously leaning towards my tool shed. I’ve cut down hundreds of trees, but for this one I think I’m going to call in the pros.
I just assumed it was a neighbor wanting documentary evidence that he lived next to a dumbass.
My husband is pretty good at putting a tree where he wants it, even for an amateur. But he’s also smart enough to know when to call a pro. Plus there’s the issue of the stump. Just last week, we had 4 trees taken out - one that wasn’t too healthy, one that was in the way of a parking area, and two that were much smaller, very unattractive, and always in the way when I mowed. Four hours after the crew arrived, all that remained were 3 bare areas and a pile of mulch. Worth every penny!