Yikes!

[THALL10326]

Yea, you're probably right about the short bar thing. There was no ladder that I recall seeing, but it was unnerving seeing him crouched down hacking, while the rest of the tree was hung on top of the stump.

Boboak, no joke. This guy was frightening.

Sorry folks, I didn't note what saw he was using. I was too engrossed with the hang up.

Come on admit it, the man was using one of those BEST BUYS,

 

[THALL10326]

He probably wasn't there, as the place wasn't set on fire with cigarette butts............

Shame on you, I haven't set any woods on fire in ohhhhhhhhhhh 3 weeks now,LOLOL

 

[pgg]

On the way home from work the other day, I saw this guy (trying to) cut down a tree along the road. He had the tree somehow hung on top of the "stump" four feet off the ground, and was hacking away lower down. I was going by at about 40 MPH, so I didn't have a whole lot of time to see what the heck was going on.

I went by the next day with camera in hand, and this was what I found. I guess his hacking away at the bottom didn't work out as planned, but it looks like he got it down without killing himself. (at least I didn't see any squish marks in the shape of a person)

Well a couple of thousand trees around that size I'm thinning most weeks down here, radiata forest, left far too long before getting thinned out in a lot of cases, but can't stand lugging wedges and hammer so no wedges, it's 'let em' drop where where they want to drop' go with the flow, but of course often conditions cause your tree not to tip, or sit back on your backcut, greenhorns aren't alert and get their bar stuck, he he, I go up a foot and re-scarf the tree for it's now leaning direction, then lean often lets you drop left or right also, but on tricky trees the second scarf and backcut also sits back but still won't tip in the first direction scarf and cut either, but usually the first cut tips when that happens, and not wanting a hangup coz if impatient and cut right thru, it'll likely hangup, the canopies touching way up there, sometimes just as quick to get the hangup and post the bastard down, 45 deg cut on lower side, but going with the flow it's easy to drop another tree to bowl the whole mess over, can be a bit thrilling when there's 8 or 10 piled up before something gives and the whole lot collapses with a huge ground-shaking explosion, but the poor guy on that tree in the pic, was probably terrified, didn't have a long enough bar, had to cut up high to tip it. Good luck to him!

 

[superfire]

looks like some body did not reaad D Dents book

wtf. i think the fool must have been drunk or fresh out of the nutt farm thats why we real loggers get some strange calls from homeowners when they FUBAR their trees:crazy1: :chainsawguy: :chainsawguy:

 

[Sprig]

Oh mannnnnnnnnnn!!!! Sheesh! Is there, like, um, a set of steps cut in da tree on the other side??




oi. Bad Donkey! :deadhorse:


This should be added to the other masterful butcher job recently posted, or cross linked to it.

:hmm3grin2orange:

 

[Justsaws]

Vertical test logs, all the rage for people who are horizontally opposed. Plus that one has a cool top handle for carrying later on.

 

[pbtree]

 

[beelsr]

wtf. i think the fool must have been drunk or fresh out of the nutt farm thats why we real loggers get some strange calls from homeowners when they FUBAR their trees:crazy1: :chainsawguy: :chainsawguy:

that guy doesn't even knows who dent is...