Yup. He does the scary stuff. Learned from his dad, who is in their photo gallery as one of the great fallers. He and a brother did a Stihl commercial in the 80s.
Rotten Tree Felling
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Yup. He does the scary stuff. Learned from his dad, who is in their photo gallery as one of the great fallers. He and a brother did a Stihl commercial in the 80s.
newmexico
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good stuff
Thanks for the Pictures Slowp.
Doug-fir.... Snag... they get funny sometimes,
Short, fat, straight up, punky, still heavy. nothing holding it up but the bark-- cut the bark and it comes down as fast as a controlled demolition of a concrete building; sometimes in the same manner.
I'm leaving that cutting up to the experts..
Thanks for the Pictures Slowp.
Doug-fir.... Snag... they get funny sometimes,
Short, fat, straight up, punky, still heavy. nothing holding it up but the bark-- cut the bark and it comes down as fast as a controlled demolition of a concrete building; sometimes in the same manner.
I'm leaving that cutting up to the experts..
young bucker
Don’t touch my lunch and can of chew..!!.
i have fell massive stands of rotten pine trees, mainly pine beetle.i found if you have a big shot with a good 8 oz bean bag,try and shoot a 3rd of the way up and use a running bowline to get her tied off, if you don't have the equipment the i strongly recommend creating a huge landing hole for all the rotten or ##### pines your taking out. i wouldn't suggest you do it alone man, those things are brittle,if you have one cut up and if you can set a wedge, and its standing up try and use a pike pole to finish it off. above what i have just mentioned works very well on lodge pole pines or jack pines, ponderosas are a very different story, take it easy look up and live, i have a habit of using over powered felling saws for snag felling,with a good 30 inch bar. good luck
ChrisF
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Uh... did that tree sorta just... explode?
Sometimes it seems like that. Some of those old snags are almost like a stovepipe, just a thin rind of good wood around the outside and completely punky inside.
I don't know if "explode" is exactly the right word or not but I've had some come apart on me that I really can't describe any other way.
ChrisF
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Sounds like a whole lot of no f'in fun!
It goes with the job. Usually pays pretty good, too.
It certainly looked like the butt exploded. The top held though. The snag had been there for a number of years, along a busy county road, lots of schoolbusses taking groups of kids to a camp.
Finally, action was taken. I wasn't there, but I did see his two escape routes which he cut out. They were immaculate. I think he anticipated having to move fast.
I was helping (carrying his axe) a different faller dump some hazard trees last November and was out of the way. We saw a tall fir snag fold up. We didn't know if the faller survived. When things settled enough, I ran over. He was shaken up as he said he got complacent and almost didn't make it out of the way fast enough. He's a younger, very competent faller too. After that, he was more alert for such things.
Earlier, I'd been at a tree base with him and things whipped around pretty good. Limbs flying and one leaner had to be glanced off another tree. I was glad I had a sturdy hardhat on.
He's on my list of safe fallers...safe to be around.
Finally, action was taken. I wasn't there, but I did see his two escape routes which he cut out. They were immaculate. I think he anticipated having to move fast.
I was helping (carrying his axe) a different faller dump some hazard trees last November and was out of the way. We saw a tall fir snag fold up. We didn't know if the faller survived. When things settled enough, I ran over. He was shaken up as he said he got complacent and almost didn't make it out of the way fast enough. He's a younger, very competent faller too. After that, he was more alert for such things.
Earlier, I'd been at a tree base with him and things whipped around pretty good. Limbs flying and one leaner had to be glanced off another tree. I was glad I had a sturdy hardhat on.
He's on my list of safe fallers...safe to be around.
