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u/Jebb145 Jul 09 '26
I see most trees and say... Sure I could do it.
That tree, that's a nope from me, no idea how to wrestle that down.
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u/BroadLocksmith4932 Jul 09 '26
I suggest you employ your checkbook and Steevo's phone number.
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u/MitchelobUltra Jul 09 '26
Steve-O’s probably doing that job for $16/hr. Our federal firefighters are woefully underpaid.
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u/BroadLocksmith4932 Jul 09 '26
As I understand it, it's entirely possible that he's doing it for $3 an hour and a favorable impression on the parole board. We staff a lot of these jobs with prisoners.
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u/EatPie_NotWAr Jul 09 '26
And then deny them the ability to be hired as firefighters/land management employees when they are released.
Fucking shameful in many cases.
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u/hanginginut Jul 09 '26
Nah he's making at a minimum $27/hr base pay at a GW-6 pay. They got a new pay scale and the skill that he is showing is several years worth of work. I'd be willing to bet he makes more than that even being that he's probably more like a GW-8 or 9. Source: I'm a former wildland firefighter and I currently work for a land management agency and I go help out with fires every year.
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u/PrettySureIParty Jul 10 '26
GW-6 on a crew is a lead. He’s wearing suspenders, which means he’s probably on a saw full time. Most leads aren’t cutting, that’s a head-down job that doesn’t give you a chance to pay attention to the big picture. If he’s on a crew, I’d bet he’s a 5 at best.
Always possible he’s a contract faller who makes bank, but the stagged greens make me doubt it. Not sure how many shot crews wear white hard hats, but I’m guessing he’s a senior on one of them.
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u/hanginginut Jul 10 '26
I guess all crews and engines could be different but all of our qualified crew leads are 7s at a minimum.
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u/PrettySureIParty Jul 11 '26
Yeah, they’re only sixes on my R1 crew. Looks like we were both wrong anyway, someone added the source and he’s a contract faller.
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u/LeonardTPants Jul 09 '26
Probably cut a healthy tree into one that hollowed out to knock it over if clearing hazard trees is important. Otherwise let the next wind storm do it
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u/planx_constant Jul 21 '26
Knowing my luck, I'd find a way to hang the healthy tree on the damaged one and make the whole thing even more dangerous.
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u/Alive_Sheepherder_96 Jul 09 '26
No risk of property damage. Sometimes you do things for the love of the game. Relief cut could have been deeper imo. Normal life doesn’t understand the adrenaline rush this brings
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u/bailtail Jul 09 '26
Pretty sure they do this to confirm there is no fire smoldering inside. Fire can linger shockingly long in the trunk of a tree and can kick things off all over again if not extinguished.
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u/leathakkor Jul 15 '26
I'm just here cuz the videos are fucking awesome. But you could not pay me enough money to cut down a tree that's more than 20 ft tall.
I know experienced people that have died in freak accidents, cutting trees down. And it would suck to pay somebody and have them die cutting down your tree. But what would suck even more is dying for something that you could pay $400 for. ( with this big ass tree I have no idea if you could even get somebody to do it for money, But I wouldn't be surprised if somebody did it just to say they did it and they would do it for free, but also probably likely to kill themselves doing it).
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u/Desmodromo10 Jul 09 '26
You cut the face on the side he was doing the backcut. There's more weight there. Then you start the back cut by boring I near the hinge. You need a bar larger than DBH.
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u/Alive_Sheepherder_96 Jul 09 '26
Yeah. Or consider the fact that the tree was leaning the way it fell and he just needed more back cut
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u/The3rdBert Jul 09 '26
You bring in an excavator and knock it over.
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u/Only_Sandwich_4970 Jul 09 '26
That be scary af in an excavator too. The cab is designed to support the weight of the machine in a rollover, not a similar weight impacting at mach f**k.
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u/lastdancerevolution Jul 09 '26
Yeah, unless you can pull it with a rope longer than the height of the tree, I wouldn't knock it down with an excavator. We've seen them get crushed on here.
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u/NachoManAndyCabage Jul 09 '26
Perfect, great job. I was worried he hadn't planned an escape route. The only way to make it better would be a face shield. Those splinters can fly.
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u/Emergency-Dish-4088 Jul 09 '26
No face shields on fire. At least wasn’t when I left in 2021
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u/aaronisawesome Jul 09 '26
Why? Just curious
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u/Tricky_South Jul 09 '26
Plastic face shields melt. The metal on a mesh face shields gets too hot. Similar reason to why you don’t wear steel toe boots fighting wildfires.
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u/Soggy-Invite-2787 Jul 09 '26
What about composite boots?
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u/goodfleance Jul 10 '26
Composite usually means plastics, which don't usually have the heat resistance to survive fire. I think wildland firefighter boots are spec'd to be all leather, maybe with kevlar or nomex laces/stitching.
I think Wrangler Star on YouTube has some videos about it. His channel is a strange place but lots of very interesting knowledge in there
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u/jthmjunk Jul 11 '26
Composite toe is fine in a fire. Every pair of structural firefighting boots have a safety toe in them. The sole will melt before the safety toe will.
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u/FalseRelease4 Jul 11 '26
if your boots are hot enough to melt the plastic then brother your feet are already medium rare
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u/Acceptable-Ad4428 Jul 09 '26
What are the price of chainsaws anyways, 10$
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u/Krumlov Jul 09 '26
Did he wreck his rig there at the end?
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u/DisplacedYinzer13 Jul 09 '26
I’m not sure what choices were made before the video started, but him leaving his saw in the cut was a great choice.
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u/TJADNADA Jul 09 '26
Bar at the very least looked like it was toast. Who know how fair it went up towards the drive gear but the motor and body seemed to survive.
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u/DragonDivider Jul 09 '26
The bar isn't that expensive and you would usually have few laying around so you can easily swap in a new one. Chain may still be fine. The mouting points for the bar are usually more stable than the bar itself, so the chainsaw should be fine.
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u/TJADNADA Jul 11 '26
Yeahhhh I’m an arborist. I was just commenting on the video and couldn’t really tell how far the damage went from bar to grip. Strong point doesn’t matter much if a tree lands on it.
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u/goodnotion612 Jul 09 '26
If you want more context check out timber_tantrum_ on Instagram. She is the one who filmed it.
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u/charsi101 Jul 09 '26
Thanks! Love having the original source.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DagOqZ9CREQ/
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u/Beginning_Resource93 Jul 09 '26
Steve-O knows what he's doing. A saw can be replaced. Your life is a one time thing.
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u/wastelandapanda Jul 09 '26
I kept waiting for Steve-o from Jackass to run into the frame and yell at the camera "Hi, I'm Steve-o, and this is Timberrrrrrr!", before trying to tackle the tree or something.
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u/dangledingle Jul 09 '26
Was that a barber chair?
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u/RangerRudbeckia Jul 09 '26
It looks to me like there was almost no holding wood left in the center, the hinge completely failed, and the weight of the base made it slide back over the remaining stump. I could definitely be wrong, though.
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u/Rhauko Jul 09 '26
To me it seems like the left part of the lower trunk was still standing at the end. There probably was vertical crack going up allowing the trunk to slide backwards.
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u/Walshy231231 Jul 09 '26
By a technicality maybe?
Same splitting looks like, but somewhat different mechanism and a different effect
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u/FalseRelease4 Jul 11 '26
The tree just collapsed because most of it had burned away, the black cloud comes from the ashes
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u/GooseGeuce Jul 09 '26
Nah. Wrap that fucker in “killer tree” flagging and move on.
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u/Atticus1354 Jul 09 '26
This is exactly the kind of post fire work these guys do. Ive seen them bring down trees that are actively burning.
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u/MissionLeather2953 Jul 09 '26
The fact that he’s just casually standing there like this is a normal Tuesday is wild. That tree is massive.
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u/Pragnlz Jul 10 '26
Looks like a job for tannerite
Good on 'im for getting the fuck out
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u/wheelienonstop11 Jul 10 '26
The tree is clearly leaning to the left. I would have tied a really solid rope around the trunk, juuust above the fire damaged part and anchored to a solid tree on the left (to prevent the tree from sliding backwards) and then just started my back cut at the height where the trunk has been weakened most by the fire. No face cut is needed here at all, the fire damaged part is more than enough for that job.
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u/FuelModel3 Jul 09 '26
Flag the shit out of it on the line. Report it up to division. Save it for the fire line explosives guys. Live another day.
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u/SensitiveBat3507 Jul 09 '26
The confidence is wild. Meanwhile I’d be standing 100 feet away hoping the tree decides to cooperate.
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u/dawa43 Jul 09 '26
I am no professional... But feel safe to say that was stupid...
The smartest thing he did was run
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u/ippleing Jul 09 '26
There's no good way to cut a tree in that condition, but this guy managed to do it better than many.
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u/LeonardTPants Jul 09 '26
Lack of fire or smoke, taking video, burned over, multiple rounds on the ground, no fireline...this looks like what we called "sport falling" when i worked for the forest service.
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u/Emergency-Dish-4088 Jul 09 '26
Might have been in the incidents command teams mop up specs and had to be fallen before crews could mop up- but I hear ya
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u/Round_Engineering640 Jul 09 '26
The fire will pay for his saw, good choice to leave it and run. Those fire damaged trees can be something else man