oh boy, someone buy this kid a hard hat and an axe

[forestryworks]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pF74qL_OE0M&feature=related

 

[Industry]

Maybe some chaps?

 

[Adkpk]

He got it down but wow, I see what you mean. Dangerous.

 

[gremlin]

Wow!!!!

 

[palogger]

actually if u wach one of the other videos i think he is wearing cutting pants but still no hardhat, dumb*ss

 

[Festus Haggen]

:monkey: The sleeves cut off the t-shirt make the tree too scared to fall on him.

 

[2dogs]

The lack of head protection is a given but I don't like wearing chaps all the time. If the escape route is not completely clean I would rather not wear anything that could snag. I could not tell the size of the axe he was using but I often use a 3 1/2 lb head on a 20" helve. It looks like a hatchet but drives wedges very well.

 

[Zackman1801]

yes but if you clear your escape route nothing will snag either!

 

[JackD_ME]

What I don't understand is why is he wasting two to three feet of butt log? I watched four of his videos and they all had high stumps, although is appears he is felling dead trees! Is this a west coast thing?

 

[Burvol]

What I don't understand is why is he wasting two to three feet of butt log? I watched four of his videos and they all had high stumps, although is appears he is felling dead trees! Is this a west coast thing?

It's called he's a high-stumper retrard.

 

[ShoerFast]

Who here could really throw the first rock?

Gotta admit the kid has a good start!

 

[056kid]

F the stump on a dead tree. He is getting good practic.

 

[forestryworks]

some kind of hydraulic jack

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVdK9LaOlfU

in this video you can see the same guy
using some kind of hydraulic jack
like one of those 20ton bottle jacks you use in house leveling and such

i guess you could use one on trees?

 

[Zackman1801]

his cut was soo high, how did he even get his saw up there to cut it? seems like it would be more economical and safer just to cut the thing down low where he should have cut it.

 

[Burvol]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVdK9LaOlfU

in this video you can see the same guy
using some kind of hydraulic jack
like one of those 20ton bottle jacks you use in house leveling and such

i guess you could use one on trees?

Jacking or pounding wedges on snags in that sort of condition is not safe at all. He needs to learn the hard way I guess. A deep undercut on a snag in the direction it is leaning is the safest way.

 

[forestryworks]

Jacking or pounding wedges on snags in that sort of condition is not safe at all. He needs to learn the hard way I guess. A deep undercut on a snag in the direction it is leaning is the safest way.

i didn't mean to come across as one who wedges and jacks snags over
fall 'em where they lean

i had one lady wanted me to drop her pine snag
and i told her, "well i can do it. but the only way i'll do it
is if i can fall it where it leans."

it leaned right toward her barbed-wire fence

she said no



it would've been an easy fix on the fence

the snag is still standing today, much too close to her driveway

 

[spencerhenry]

i am a professional cutter. i make a good portion of my living as a faller. i never wear a hard had, and very rarely ever wear chaps. i have also very rarely seen other professional cutters using this safety gear. i cut around 5000 to 8000 trees per year.

 

[hammerlogging]

like, I don't wear seat belts cause even though they'll save me from the unexpected, well, did you hear that they'll bruise you. can't have that. Come on dude.

 

[Burvol]

There are some snags that can be jacked on, like ones that do not emite "bug dust" like the one that guy had the bottle jack in. I was just implying that it is not good. If I have one sitting back I face it, then drive it out with another stick, hence one of the important reasons to bring your whole strip up uniformly, from the bottom up.

 

[Jacob J.]

i am a professional cutter. i make a good portion of my living as a faller. i never wear a hard had, and very rarely ever wear chaps. i have also very rarely seen other professional cutters using this safety gear. i cut around 5000 to 8000 trees per year.

What kind of OSHA regulations do they have in Colorado? Out here in Oregon/Washington/California, it's an automatic $500-$2500 fine for a forest worker to be on a logging site without a hardhat. Both the worker and the company can be slapped down with fines. Not only that, but it's damn foolish. In 17 years of professional cutting I can't count how many times a hardhat has saved me from serious injury, and I have two deeply dented tin hats and one cracked full-brim Bullard plastic hat to prove it.

his cut was soo high, how did he even get his saw up there to cut it? seems like it would be more economical and safer just to cut the thing down low where he should have cut it.

Perhaps there was something going on in the stump that you can't see? Carpenter ants? Termites? Big frost crack? Dry rot?
It's much safer to cut a high stump when felling snags anyways because 1.- You're standing up which makes escaping the stump faster and 2.- You reduce your exposure. (Where he cut it was a little too high for my taste, but it's easy for us to watch the video and be critics.)

Jacking or pounding wedges on snags in that sort of condition is not safe at all. He needs to learn the hard way I guess. A deep undercut on a snag in the direction it is leaning is the safest way.

I agree, but as you should be well aware, sometimes Fir snags have a way in the Northwest of becoming "weather hardened", which makes wedging or jacking feasible.