Falling pics 11/25/09

[forestryworks]

he ain't getting paid

Some nights I eat beans and drink creek water

 

[Greystoke]

Should my saw stay with me or the tree?

Since most of my Timber Falling experience is on the west coast, working rugged helicopter and Yarder ground, I would leave my saw behind a lot, as it is really hard to take a large powerhead with a long bar with you when you are trying to clear from a tree that you have to fall straight up a steep hill to save it out, and can do some weird things when it hits the ground. I usually would tuck it directly behind the stump of the tree being fell in situations like this, then it was get away trying to clear over bluffs and blowdown without tweeking a knee or something....much harder to do when carrying your saw. However, if I was falling timber on ground that was not broken up, with not much blowdown or other obstacles, and maybe flatter, I would be more likely to keep it with me.

I was going to post some falling pics and videos of a tree job that I just did, but I am too lazy so I will just put up this link. Check it out...some old growth being jacked, lol :

http://www.facebook.com/tarzanstreeservice

 

[DangerTree]

Anti- kick step

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Up here in Canada the Compensation board does periodic stump checks to see if fellers are using safe falling practices. You would have failed on all but one of those trees due too a lack of anti-kick step. And yet all of them fell where they were supposed to. Go figure I believe that some regs are just unnecessary. Not meant as an attack on you just an observation keep up the good work.

 

[forestryworks]

Up here in Canada the Compensation board does periodic stump checks to see if fellers are using safe falling practices. You would have failed on all but one of those trees due too a lack of anti-kick step. And yet all of them fell where they were supposed to. Go figure I believe that some regs are just unnecessary. Not meant as an attack on you just an observation keep up the good work.

Thanks for the good word, I still got a lot of learning to do lol.

Did you ever see a documentary called "Death in the Forest"? It deals with fallers in BC and talks about what you just said.

 

[Greystoke]

That is why I would not make it in Canada. I hated it bad enough when the osha guys would show up on jobs here and snub their noses at my perfect stumps with nothing to cut off the butt of the tree that I fell but a few whiskers and not a stupid 2 inch step of wood...it has it's place in my toolbag, but rarely gets used.

 

[ThePruner]

Seems like those Osha guys are more concerned about you giving a hard time than "caring about your safety"

 

[Slamm]

Slamm, those big old telephone poles will sometimes hit an alder or other springy thing on the way down, then things can get a bit more complicated.
Sometimes the top will break out, or some limbs come down. What I showed was flat ground, which is rare. Add some steep ground and it gets a bit more complicated.

I completely understand that things are dangerous on both sides and in the middle. I was just wondering about some of the video on youtube where it is perfectly flat and the tree is some monster telephone pole that takes about 1 minute to fall over and the guy has plenty of time to safely take his saw and his body to hide behind another tree and they just drop it like it is on fire, chain spinning and everything, LOL. No big deal, was just wondering. I actually will put it in my mind to use this technique, as I'm sure there have been times it would have been smarter to drop and run and I didn't and things got close, but man it sucks smashing saws too, LOL.

That Osha stuff doesn't sound like any fun either. I'm sure we would not pass several points of interest with OSHA. One of them being "stepped stumps", I absolutely hate looking at those things from old jobs or neighboring jobs, it just doesn't look very professional, like you can't line up your cuts or something, LOL.

Later,

Sam

Later,

Sam

 

[RandyMac]

Tall timber will throw debris a good long ways, sometimes ditching the saw and running is the only option. Clumpy hardwoods don't have the reach that tall conifers have.

BTW slamm, this isn't the chainsaw forum, we don't call regular posters ####ing idiots here.

 

[Gologit]

... this isn't the chainsaw forum, we don't call regular posters ####ing idiots here.

But what if they are ####ing idiots? What do we do then?

 

[RandyMac]

But what if they are ####ing idiots? What do we do then?

Provide information, instruction, if that isn't enough, a hard pop to the back of the head.

 

[056kid]

Too bad the computer dosent have a button that can reach out and smack. hahaha.

 

[PB]

Too bad the computer dosent have a button that can reach out and smack. hahaha.

It is probably better for you that it doesn't.

 

[Slamm]

It is probably better for you that it doesn't.

I couldn't write that fast enough, LOL.

Sam

 

[RandyMac]

LMAO!!!!

I wonder why I was thinking of Ted?

 

[056kid]

Im completely immune to smacks, its gotta be harder to get through.

 

[RandyMac]

I'll call you cousin Ted and administer something that will get through, something you will remember.

 

[056kid]

Whatever you say cousin, im going to get some tacos and more beer. . .

 

[RandyMac]

Whatever you say cousin, im going to get some tacos and more beer. . .

remember when you get back, sit in the corner, away from the stove.

 

[slowp]

I like the heft of a classic Biltmore stick. Thwap!

 

[Rounder]

BTW slamm, this isn't the chainsaw forum, we don't call regular posters ####ing idiots here.[/QUOTE]

Yeah, lets keep it civil, this is about the only thread I care to look at on the site, but lately the silly #### has gotten a bit old.

Great pics/vids Jameson, Cody, Cedar Kerf (cotton wood thread), and also the recollections in your thread Randy.

Have a good week - Sam