Yes it is this ones been keeping me up for a few weeks...
It did explode on impact though!
very noisy...
It did explode on impact though!
very noisy...
Danger Danger... advice sought.
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Maybe I missed something, but you would have had a stick knock your hat off as soon as you started sawing on the face for the 2nd time like that. Again, I wont there but WTF man? Its not like she was all sawed up, and its not like you tried lifting it hard. Im kinda at a loss... I was not there though...
RandyMac
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Aw, now, I KNOW you're not talking about me...
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Couldn't lift, back cut side split off all the wedges where doing was tearing off a 60' slab, ran out of memory on my smell phone otherwise I would have gotten a picture of the butt, then I think all would have been clear-ish.
And yes normally I would never cut the face again but since wedging was out, sending it over backwards was not my first choice but safer than the alternative.
I took another short vid, kinda explains a little better, I'll post it tonight.
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HuskStihl
Chairin'em for the sound
I had figured if he had time to go get the 461 and saw from the other side, he had time to remove those bar nuts. Especially with a spotter there. I wasn't there, but life is full of calculated risks. I can get my 385 head off the bar in about 30 seconds without needing to look down. I woulda moved it. I may change my mind with the new video
I'm still trying to figure how she sat back, and then went back the right way. The top moved a good 5-6 feet, I was ready to dump it the bad way and next thing I know it comes back around??? no wind or nothing weird...
my hands where shaking pretty bad after that one by the way...
I'm telling you, it is because you videoed the operation! Everything would have been fine, except you had to have a camera there. So, it did look like a piece was loose and swinging a bit near you. Loose bark? or a big sliver?
The spare saw was not in the tree. He did the right thing as far as I'm concerned, but I'm not a
faller. Things can fall out of those trees quickly. I once had a limb land next to me and the depth those things will impale themselves in the ground is impressive. I have seen another saw that was damaged a bit from a tree going the wrong way. The father/son team packed it down to the road and hammered the bar straight and proclaimed it to be worthy of being a spare saw.
I have to throw in with the "leave the saw" comments...especially in this case. There are times when you can take the power head off but I don't think this was one of them. As far as that tree was sawed up I wouldn't have wanted to be spending any more time next to it than necessary.
It's just a saw. And a lesson. Sometimes you just have to grit your teeth, cuss yourself a little, and let it go. I've had some fine saws but I've never had one I'd risk my life over.
LOL...I wouldn't want "He Saved His Saw" as an epitaph.
It's just a saw. And a lesson. Sometimes you just have to grit your teeth, cuss yourself a little, and let it go. I've had some fine saws but I've never had one I'd risk my life over.
LOL...I wouldn't want "He Saved His Saw" as an epitaph.
Arrh, thar she blows
RandyMac
Stiff Member
Don't do a Brad.
HuskStihl
Chairin'em for the sound
Ok I've been talking like a chainsaw guy and not a logger (cause that's how it is). All sorts of real loggers have said leave it/don't risk it. So..........Ichangedmymindonlyanidiotwouldworryaboutasawinthatsituation. Whew. Wasn't as bad as I thought it was gonna be
While I will no longer advise this course of action, being an idiot, I would have taken the head off and just left the tree for a few hours and hoped it had an accident:biggrin:
While I will no longer advise this course of action, being an idiot, I would have taken the head off and just left the tree for a few hours and hoped it had an accident:biggrin:
The most important thing.....you walked away unhurt .............saws ya can replace human life ya can't........I ain't gonna say anything my friend as I wasn't the one standing below it and any advice really is just theoretical when you ain't there......
Again your safe and there always another day and another stick to fall
Again your safe and there always another day and another stick to fall
Ok I've been talking like a chainsaw guy and not a logger (cause that's how it is). All sorts of real loggers have said leave it/don't risk it. So..........Ichangedmymindonlyanidiotwouldworryaboutasawinthatsituation. Whew. Wasn't as bad as I thought it was gonna be
While I will no longer advise this course of action, being an idiot, I would have taken the head off and just left the tree for a few hours and hoped it had an accident:biggrin:
Jon.....with all respect to you .......if you stand under a stick that you aren't sure which way it gonna go and bits already split out and try and take a powerhead off .......then ......... you needing the short bus ..........no disrespect bro but holy crap a saw is a saw a human life is much more precious
Ok I've been talking like a chainsaw guy and not a logger (cause that's how it is). All sorts of real loggers have said leave it/don't risk it. So..........Ichangedmymindonlyanidiotwouldworryaboutasawinthatsituation. Whew. Wasn't as bad as I thought it was gonna be
While I will no longer advise this course of action, being an idiot, I would have taken the head off and just left the tree for a few hours and hoped it had an accident:biggrin:
That's not much of an option either, in a logging area. You'd at least need to flag the tree and let everybody know that you'd left it. People have to work in the area. Of course, the other uses of danger flagging sometimes make it easy to ignore, like using it to flag where you left your box of donettos, or where you hid the elk shed, or ...
He did fine, despite ignoring my warning of camera effects.
RandyMac
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There are trees with nothing better to do, waiting ####up your day
No, no, no!!! You never leave your Donettos unattended. If you leave them in the woods the squirrels will get them. Or maybe a Forester.
If you leave them on the landing the landing rats will get them. Won't be anything left but a soggy little piece of cardboard where they licked all the residual chocolate and crumbs off.
Guard your Donettos with your life.
paccity
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There are trees with nothing better to do, waiting ####up your day
thats a fine stick.:msp_rolleyes:
paccity
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theres priorities in life, and that's one of them.
There are trees with nothing better to do, waiting ####up your day
That's a Jesus tree. When you're cutting it and you feel the saw slide into the rot and it starts to go sideways on you...and when you see what it looks like when it hits the ground...you mention His name. Among others. :msp_rolleyes:
Plus, when you get one like that you really start taking a good look at the next ones.
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RandyMac
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Farkin' White Firs in that area were almost all rotten. I called then 2-16 trees, 'cause that is what you got from them.
