Felling notches

[BuddhaKat]

Everyone is all fired up like every single tree you cut you have 2 escapes and you are 100 yards away befor the tree is on the deck.

There are MANY times where you must vacate for saftey but there are also times where staying put will work.

Is this fellow a bad faller cause he dident leave the stump?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kot0eI9n74U&feature=related

There is never a time when you shouldn't be as safe as possible. To do otherwise is foolish.

 

[TreeClimber57]

Don't ask me how I know that!

Ok I won't But do you happen to have a pic!

 

[stihl sawing]

There is never a time when you shouldn't be as safe as possible. To do otherwise is foolish.

:agree2:You can't never be too safe.

 

[edisto]

Everyone is all fired up like every single tree you cut you have 2 escapes and you are 100 yards away befor the tree is on the deck.

There are MANY times where you must vacate for saftey but there are also times where staying put will work.

Is this fellow a bad faller cause he dident leave the stump?

How long did you look for that one? I looked at 6 or 8 others that were brought up...and everyone else walked away when the tree started to go. Are they old farts and frumps?

It's been more than 15 years since I cut trees for a living, and I don't have the experience that most of the guys here have, but the more experience I got, the more careful I became about making sure I had an out, and stepping back from the tree as it fell...which is exactly the advice I got from the ones with the experience when I started out.

If you've never been surprised by a tree, more power to you. I just hope you're not "chillin' by the stump" of the one that does surprise you.

 

[stihl sawing]

How long did you look for that one? I looked at 6 or 8 others that were brought up...and everyone else walked away when the tree started to go. Are they old farts and frumps?

It's been more than 15 years since I cut trees for a living, and I don't have the experience that most of the guys here have, but the more experience I got, the more careful I became about making sure I had an out, and stepping back from the tree as it fell...which is exactly the advice I got from the ones with the experience when I started out.

If you've never been surprised by a tree, more power to you. I just hope you're not "chillin' by the stump" of the one that does surprise you.

He will definitely be "chillin" if one nails him, Time for the final sleep. Just hope it never happens.

 

[ropensaddle]

I always back away in a clear route but never turn my back to the tree I in my experience believe chillin at the stump is flirting with disaster. I have seen butts fly up, limbs thrown right back at the stump etc. Having said that if in a clear yard flat ground no other trees you prolly could get away with chillin but not a great habit to form imo.

 

[stihl sawing]

I always back away in a clear route but never turn my back to the tree I in my experience believe chillin at the stump is flirting with disaster. I have seen butts fly up, limbs thrown right back at the stump etc. Having said that if in a clear yard flat ground no other trees you prolly could get away with chillin but not a great habit to form imo.

Now Rope, You know them husky's ain't never gonna let one fly the wrong way.lol

 

[056kid]

I think I am safe in the woods... safe enough for all the government folks, and safe enough to keep my health and have a good time as well.


its interpreted like i never step away from a falling tree.

well that is false.

 

[stihl sawing]

I think I am safe in the woods... safe enough for all the government folks, and safe enough to keep my health and have a good time as well.


its interpreted like i never step away from a falling tree.

well that is false.

Good deal, Glad to hear that.

 

[edisto]

its interpreted like i never step away from a falling tree.

well that is false.

Some of the time is definitely better than never.

Most of the time would be much better.

 

[7oaks]

 

[ropensaddle]

I think I am safe in the woods... safe enough for all the government folks, and safe enough to keep my health and have a good time as well.


its interpreted like i never step away from a falling tree.

well that is false.

It only takes once! I know you know what can happen and I doubt you linger at the stump much but please if you do kiss and hug your kids each mourning

 

[ropensaddle]

Now Rope, You know them husky's ain't never gonna let one fly the wrong way.lol

I know they always go where I want them too but sometimes the landing gets rough :jawdrop: I once was pushing a tree over out of the bucket clear yard no problems cut and dried job when the tree hit the ground it launched a five foot stob over my head at sixty foot and into the neighbors yard, limb, stob was six inch diameter enough to break a neck guy cutting the tree never knewPs: he was using a stihl lol.

 

[7oaks]

Ropensaddle: "degree sign ° can be made by holding down the 'alt' key and
typing 248 or 0176 on the number pad, it should show up when the alt
key is released "


Or 'option' key and K on a MAC˚˚˚˚˚˚

 

[edisto]

Ropensaddle: "degree sign ° can be made by holding down the 'alt' key and
typing 248 or 0176 on the number pad, it should show up when the alt
key is released "

Or 'option' key and K on a MAC˚˚˚˚˚˚

But it is so much harder to type under water.

 

[7oaks]

But it is so much harder to type under water.

Okay let's start a "Who uses a MAC vs PC thread" :computer: kinda like an oil or notch thread as this could turn into another off topic :rant:.

 

[TreeClimber57]

I always back away in a clear route but never turn my back to the tree .

Good plan! Fully agree.

I in my experience believe chillin at the stump is flirting with disaster. I have seen butts fly up, limbs thrown right back at the stump etc.

Haven't we all. The longer you work in this area, the more you see.. but never think you have seen it all or get complaisant.

 

[SteveH]

I second or third or whatever it is by now the advice to keep the tree in vision as you clear out along your escape path. In 30 yr., once a tree almost got me good because I ran away with my back to it. As the tree fell, it rotated, rapidly, and brought around a large limb I thought was no problem due to where it was located on the trunk. By large I mean about the thickness of my thigh, large enough than when it caught me and threw me down then pinned me, it hurt. Fortunately, it was just hurt and not damage. Startled the heck out of me, I can say.

Afterward, when I managed to dig beneath my leg to be able to pull out from under it, I thought about what had happened. Best I can figure, the various limbs on the tree had grown so that the tree, though standing vertical, was unbalanced and thus the rotation on its way down. It rotated about the vertical axis and naturally brought the limb in question whirling around. It was extraordinarily quick. Since then, there've been a few other times a tree did something sort of like this, though not with a limb in position to come around and hit me. In any case, I was expecting it and was in good shape to avoid getting hit.

Live and learn.

 

[edisto]

Walking backwards is slower...but at least you'll know when to turn and run!

 

[TreeClimber57]

Walking backwards is slower...but at least you'll know when to turn and run!

The only way to do it safely.