I figure the branches helped slow the fall.
But wouldn’t you love to see the reaction of the roofers when they arrive and see this tree, the roof and the cut stump?
I figure the branches helped slow the fall.
But wouldn’t you love to see the reaction of the roofers when they arrive and see this tree, the roof and the cut stump?
I need a new roof; I know, Ima gonna get me the n-surance people to pay for it. Now how do I go about getting just enough damage that they need to replace the roof. I know…
When I was in 8th grade, our science teacher suddenly went missing. All we knew was that a substitute teacher had been assigned, and that Mr. Smith was going to be out for a long time.
When he showed back up, several months later, he was in…well, he was in a body cast.
Seems he’d attempted to chop down a tree in his yard, and to prevent it from falling on his car, which he didn’t have the foresight to move, he climbed way up into the top of the tree (pine) and tied a rope to the top. He then tied the other end of the rope around his waist, in an oh-so-misguided attempt to pull the tree in the direction he wanted it to fall.
Yeah. The tree fell, crushed his car, and he became the projectile in a homemade 90-foot-tall trebuchet.
Came extremely close to killing him. He was lucky to be alive.
And Jesus Christ, I hope no one was in that house.
See now a video of THAT would have gone viral. It does concern me that it was a science teacher though. Clearly he didn’t do the calculations correctly.
Yeah, I’d say. He did have the grace to be embarrassed when he explained it to his students.
I’m from Puyallup, WA, and grew up with guys who wanted nothing more out of life than to set chokes, buck, and fell. Oh, and chew and drink.
That roof is completely fucked!
I agree! If you watch closely, the entire thing, jumps a little, at impact of the tree. That can’t be good.
Well, I strongly suspect Mrs. Lumberjackass wasn’t home, since the neighbor could not have been so mean as to deny us the footage of THAT reaction…
I am hoping the family lawyer was sitting on the toilet.
I worked with a tree trimmer/arborist when I was young. There is something about a tree being felled that makes people stop and watch. They just do it.
Video no longer there. No fair, I want to see tree fall fail.
That’s what you get for chopping down a perfectly cromulent tree.
On the up side, got plenty of pine for the new trusses…