Kodiak Kid
Idiot with a "power saw"
I myself would call it a "rotten wind sheard trunk" STIHL hanging on the stob guess.This was interesting when I got the call for a clean up job.
I didn't even know what to call it
I myself would call it a "rotten wind sheard trunk" STIHL hanging on the stob guess.This was interesting when I got the call for a clean up job.
I didn't even know what to call it
Dose a situation ever present its self where you can take them out with another tree of sounder wood?I primarily cut hazard and storm damaged trees... Lots of dead ash in recent years and they have become very dangerous as the tops have been breaking off as the trees fall. Some situations are so dangerous that the job has been turned over to mother nature when there are no nearby structures. This with hopes that a night time storm takes them down while nobody is around! Sometimes it works out well... other times there is undesirable collateral damage to other trees and fences. Those outcomes pale in comparison to getting oneself killed!
Dose a situation ever present its self where you can take them out with another tree of sounder wood?
I understand completely! Sometimes the opportunity presents its self. Other times not so much. This option is almost impossible in an urban setting.I've done that at times. I try to limit the hammer to other dead trees though as I'm often working on properties owned by land trusts (parks, rail trails) and they are adverse to taking down sound trees. Some of their folks even argue for leaving the hazard trees as "wildlife trees." I point out to them that there are 10s of thousands of other dead trees in the area which satisfies them!
Another point I'd like to make is any species of standing dead, ANY SPECIES. Be it hard woods or conifer. When at a sever stage of decomposition from the moment of the snaggs commitment to fall, it can buckle, break, or crumble any where in the tree from between the ground to the top including any branches if present. Sometimes saw vibration is all it takes to trigger this!I primarily cut hazard and storm damaged trees... Lots of dead ash in recent years and they have become very dangerous as the tops have been breaking off as the trees fall. Some situations are so dangerous that the job has been turned over to mother nature when there are no nearby structures. This with hopes that a night time storm takes them down while nobody is around! Sometimes it works out well... other times there is undesirable collateral damage to other trees and fences. Those outcomes pale in comparison to getting oneself killed!
Driving over or smashing dead with dead is very dangerous!! Be careful bud!I took one dead Ash down with another almost dead one. But that was back in the forest and I didn't care the branches broke off and flew everywhere, big mess to clean up, but no damage to me or equipment.
The current ones have been left to fall by themselves as the branches fall off at random intervals.
This was interesting when I got the call for a clean up job.
I didn't even know what to call it
He new it was rotten when he walked up to it before even putting his saw in it! The orange paint ring around the tree marked by the forester indicates it is a danger tree. He new exactly what was capable of happening while he was tip'n the tree. The moment it started fo rip his a** was out of there! Dropping the money and scrambling fir his life on very steep ground with no where to run or get a good foot hold.Inside was all rot. Should have been able to tell once the saw got inside.
I've always heard this called, Run Like Hell. As in "I'm going to cut this tree down and if it does this (explanation of what might go wrong) I'll run like hell. The tree is usually pondered and escape routes planned out.He new it was rotten when he walked up to it before even putting his saw in it! The orange paint ring around the tree marked by the forester indicates it is a danger tree. He new exactly what was capable of happening while he was tip'n the tree. The moment it started fo rip his a** was out of there! Dropping the money and scrambling fir his life on very steep ground with no where to run or get a good foot hold.
How would you hav fell it?
Tannerite and a rifle!!!He new it was rotten when he walked up to it before even putting his saw in it! The orange paint ring around the tree marked by the forester indicates it is a danger tree. He new exactly what was capable of happening while he was tip'n the tree. The moment it started fo rip his a** was out of there! Dropping the money and scrambling fir his life on very steep ground with no where to run or get a good foot hold.
How would you hav fell it?
believe nothing she says.......I get it. Thanks fir explaining though.
I've seen videos where trees assessed as being very dangerous are taken down with explosives... This appears to have been a candidate for that!He new it was rotten when he walked up to it before even putting his saw in it! The orange paint ring around the tree marked by the forester indicates it is a danger tree. He new exactly what was capable of happening while he was tip'n the tree. The moment it started fo rip his a** was out of there! Dropping the money and scrambling fir his life on very steep ground with no where to run or get a good foot hold.
How would you hav fell it?
Here's one.... cut a channel that would direct the blast to blow the holding wood at the rear while keeping the hinge wood intact. My brother in law wasn't expecting the blast.I've seen videos where trees assessed as being very dangerous are taken down with explosives... This appears to have been a candidate for that!
I would not at all recommend that! Easier said then done. Especially in forest as thick and on ground as steep as the tree that exploded on the expert level cutter in the barber chair video. Timber demolition with explosives must be done from a distance to be executed safely!Tannerite and a rifle!!!
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