fritz423
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The best laid plans of mice and ranchers...
How to destroy a fence while felling a tree!
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To anybody watching if you don't know what your doing (read the other threads of his) don't work by yourself and maybe slap a hard hat on your head, especially when working with dead trees.
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fritz423
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I deserve the criticism! But to be fair I've been doing it my way for 16 years without injury.
You need to take lessons from our buddy James. He's got breaking stuff down to a science.
First of all I really enjoy a good fail video so thank you for that. Second After cutting down thousands of trees and spending hundreds of hours learning as much as I can form others I have a few ideas of what went wrong and what could have been done differently. I also know that no matter how good you are things just go wrong. I approach every job with the idea that this is the tree that is going to try and kill me and then try and remove as many of those variables as possible. Never quit learning and be safe.
Video and photographs rarely tell the whole story or present the situation in a manner in which a tree can be properly evaluated. In this video, there was enough information to see what went wrong. It seemed obvious to me that the tree's COG was going to make it go where it went. A pull rope ... or at least an anchor rope positioned 90° from the preferred direction of fall ... should've left the fence intact.
Please take Jolly up on his offer. Not only will you be safer, you will be more productive. Ron
Post some videos of the venture. Ron
Can't see any of the cut nor the fence???
I usually cut in daylight........
I usually cut in daylight........
fritz423
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Sorry! Day job gets in the way. But not for too many more years!
Looks like the tree was going to hit the fence anyway without the funny move in there. You were cutting it awfully close! Was there a chunk of wood still inside your notch that caused it to move?
Hypoxylon killed oaks like that are so brittle they have no holding wood. Once it started coming over the hinge snapped and it followed the lean.
Seventy-five dollars will get you a 1/2 inch tag line 120 feet long. I always put a tag line in, even if I can only get it 15-20 feet high, Joe.
crotchclimber
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That's what it looked like to me as well. Possibly a wider notch, thicker hinge, wedges, and a pull rope would have made it go where he wanted.
trees top back limb caught the tree top beside pulled it over and onto your fence and luckily not on to you,, pls get a bucket on your noggin, some rope and some saw operator training, i enjoyed your vids and good ya nature but gravity and saws dont have a our sense of humor...
