Not sure where this happened, friend sent me it.
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Yea, I mean, they had everywhere else to escape to......makes you wonder.
You don't drop the tree with the face cut.........
Occasionally you do, but I hear ya. I couldn't make out too well what was happening there.
So many questions. I can't think of a single good answer to any of them.
@Mad Professor Did the friend that sent the video know about the outcome for the patient?
@Mad Professor Did the friend that sent the video know about the outcome for the patient?
No, he just sent me the movie clip. We both heat with wood and cut wood together.
We've been using a lot of EAB killed ash, and those trees in thick woods we won't drop without the other spotting the fall. A lot we won't touch as the dead tops will get you. Better to let nature fell them and loose some of it to rot, then get planted by a top falling on you.
He zigged when he should have zagged I think. That's bad, I wonder how he faired?
In my mind, there was a face cut toward us. He took off and ran at the right time, he just went the wrong way. But I am watching on a 24" monitor. Not well trained.
But, it almost looks like he is cutting in a park? Or at least a well tended field. I can't tell if it's standing dead, but no other trees have leaves. Should have made it easier to read the weight. The guy commenting on the video could tell the tree was going to go the wrong way. Sounds as if there was a wedge in.
The backwards ball cap, tee shirt, shorts and shoes (Flip Flops??), the way he is leaning ready to run as he is cutting make me think someone should not have let him run a chain saw.
And the cost was too high.
But, it almost looks like he is cutting in a park? Or at least a well tended field. I can't tell if it's standing dead, but no other trees have leaves. Should have made it easier to read the weight. The guy commenting on the video could tell the tree was going to go the wrong way. Sounds as if there was a wedge in.
The backwards ball cap, tee shirt, shorts and shoes (Flip Flops??), the way he is leaning ready to run as he is cutting make me think someone should not have let him run a chain saw.
And the cost was too high.
Running into a bad situation with no experience 
I can't understand why he ran into it!Running into a bad situation with no experience
Panic, and lack of training.
And not looking up!
The tree fell into the lean. When it held up and didn't go over he continued his back cut right through the hinge.
I hope he lived.
I hope he lived.
I hope he lived too but I don't think so.
Me either.
Narrative says he was opening up face cut.
Hard to tell from the footage
It was a disaster all the way around
A closer look and the face cut is almost towards the camera. He certainly didn't have enough wedges set properly and/or he cut through the hinge too far and it snapped as the tree pivots as it falls.
What is this ghoulish need to record everything all the time? I would have been halfway out of the truck running to help before the tree hit the ground.
