Weekend Warrior tree felling question

[slowp]

My personal best is 6 lodgepole hung up while trying to knock down one. We were not doing trail work, we were thinning, and getting paid to thin.

 

[bnmc98]

As they teach in the USFS certification classes it's proceed only if "I know I can successfully complete this task safely". "I think I can" may work fine for a cartoon train engine but not out in the woods.
Steve

While you can be safe and that rests in your hands...... there are no absolute guarantees with timber falling.

 

[2dogs]

While you can be safe and that rests in your hands...... there are no absolute guarantees with timber falling.

Yeah, no guarantees at all. Last Sunday Cody was topping a pine tree above a propane tank. I was lowering the top with a Portawrap and 1/2" rope. He cut about 15' out of the top and I didn't realize the tree was dead about 8' up from where he was. I put two wraps an the portawrap and that was way too much. The top hit the rope and I stopped the fall hard rather than letting it run. Cody got one heck of a ride and 1 spur kicked out. I'll try to post a pic tomorrow.

 

[Bwildered]

Getting under a hung up tree to fall the tree that it's leaning on, is sheer lunacy, the danger area should have been taped off untill a more experienced person decided on a safe option for removal. Hang ups happen to the best of them so there is no shame in it happening.
Thangst

 

[RandyMac]

Learning to walk away was my hardest lesson, I did gain some valuable experience by getting in over my head.
Then again, I went out of my way to fall the biggest, ugliest trees I could find. Many fond memories of my sport-falling days, I was truly blessed in having a large territory, filled with DF snags and big hardwoods.