SpeedBark timber falling video

[forestryworks]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaNO5L71dJM

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[pinemartin]

impressive

 

[treejunkie13]

looks like a hoot of a time! Thanks 4 sharing.

 

[Metals406]

Boy, for saying domino falling is illegal... A guy sees it in a lot of videos'. lol

Thanks for sharing, I thought I had seen most of the faller videos' on YouTube.

Those guys really laid-out nice too... As apposed to a big pile of pick-up-sticks.

 

[HawkeyeBilt]

Studs!

 

[gavin]

Boy, for saying domino falling is illegal... A guy sees it in a lot of videos'. lol

Thanks for sharing, I thought I had seen most of the faller videos' on YouTube.

Those guys really laid-out nice too... As apposed to a big pile of pick-up-sticks.

some of them looked like pushing to overcome a falling a difficulty...but some of them (like when 4 vertical trees went together) is a little hard to defend as overcoming a difficulty. haha.

 

[scattergun13]

Kudos to all of you who do that sort of thing for a living, that was impressive.opcorn:

 

[joesawer]

some of them looked like pushing to overcome a falling a difficulty...but some of them (like when 4 vertical trees went together) is a little hard to defend as overcoming a difficulty. haha.

They where limb locked! Of course they where.

 

[Gologit]

They where limb locked! Of course they where.

LOL...That would have been my story, too. Not that I ever have or ever would do anything like that.

 

[HawkeyeBilt]

HEHEHEHE! It kind of works like this..... IF a tree leans back it gets pushed over by one that leans the into your lay. If 5 of them lean back they ALL get faced up and straped ( a cut that is used instead of using a wedge) then driven by a tree that leans into your lay. Yes it is illegal but seriously i don't give a rats ass that some pencil pusher made a law they thought would make my job safer. I mean My chain is spinning at 2,000 rpm right in front of my face all day! If it saves my back and my wedges and ups my production I'm all for it. Some times I just do it for fun too. It's as safe as you make it and its a effective weapon for us boys on the west coast!
Thanks to everyone that Likes My video!!! I have a ton more coming!!


Always look up!

Michael Hawkins

 

[treejunkie13]

Boy, for saying domino falling is illegal...

r u serious? is it really illegal? who makes these rules? where?

 

[forestryworks]

r u serious? is it really illegal? who makes these rules? where?

a certain group of people do...

they'll be the people to tell you that you've done all your falling wrong and you hand them a power saw and say, "show me." they'll respond with, "oh no, i don't know how to do it. i just know you didn't do it right."

:monkey:

 

[clearance]

r u serious? is it really illegal? who makes these rules? where?

In British Columbia, for one. You are only allowed to push one tree with another to overcome a falling difficulty. It is also so that trees tied together must be felled together.

Fatality investigations have revealed dozens of cut up trees, in which one of them came down before it was meant to and killed the faller. I figure there is not much wrong with dominoing a few trees together once in a while but I don't make the rules. You cannot back bar to make falling cuts anymore. And so it goes.

 

[Haywire Haywood]

I like the fellow that fells the tree and then stands there 5 feet from the stump and watches it fall. Seems to me that when tons of tree start moving it's time to put distance between you and it. I'm just an east coast firewood cutter, but I like to be as far away from my ugly stumps as possible when stuff is coming down.

Ian

 

[treejunkie13]

IMO... safest place is @ the stump.

 

[HawkeyeBilt]

To move away from the stump you have to look at the ground and take your eye off the situation at hand. Don't get me wrong there is a time to move away and a time to stand right near the stump. That knowledge comes with falling 10,000 of thousands of trees.

 

[treejunkie13]

To move away from the stump you have to look at the ground and take your eye off the situation at hand. Don't get me wrong there is a time to move away and a time to stand right near the stump. That knowledge comes with falling 10,000 of thousands of trees.

Roger! :agree2:

 

[Haywire Haywood]

Then I must defer to experience.... I've only felled a few dozen.

I'm still gonna run from my abortions tho... LOL

Ian

 

[HawkeyeBilt]

Then I must defer to experience.... I've only felled a few dozen.

I'm still gonna run from my abortions tho... LOL

Ian

Run All you want brother but just remember keep your head up!

 

[hammerlogging]

IMO... safest place is @ the stump.

can't go with you with this one. Unless its a steep clearcut, I'm out of there, 45 degrees back. A quick dart away 10 feet, than looking up, backing away. If its grape-vined to hell, or has a major hanger in it, it may call for the run like hell 30 feet or more routine. If its steep as hell and can't really move, atleast I get to the side and really look up, ready for something to fall. Emphasize looking up. But really, everything coming off the tree you're felling, a top from a tree you brushed on the fell, or a hanger falling, it all pretty much lands at the stump or in line with the direction of felling. So I'm outta there. Granted, always try to coordinate that escape route witht the path to the next tree i'm cutting! And dude, badass video. It'd be fun to do a stint of west coast felling, I have to say. Even more fun- I host some west coast cutters in heavy HW timber, then someone out there host the same cutters.