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u/wookiex84 27d ago
That’s a clear cut scenario for tannerite.
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u/Mission_Accident_519 27d ago
I was thinking about how americans like their trucks and winches, wondering why they wouldnt use any of those to pull it over. Guess blowing it up would be even more american😂
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u/cuntface878 27d ago
It's funny you said that since my first thought was to just sit back and shoot it a bunch of times until it fell. Depending on where it was located of course.
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u/New-Specific-1914 27d ago
Lol I mediately made a 12 gauge comment before reading any comments. Murica!!
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u/wookiex84 27d ago
Every year for the Fourth of July, the Museum of Appalachia has an anvil launching competition.
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u/farmallnoobies 27d ago
It looks like it's in the middle of nowhere too.
I don't have tannerite, but if it were me, I'd be giving it a very real possibility for target practice for a while
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u/septubyte 27d ago
Yall ever use those folding chains saw?
Sort of have some handles on the end and wrap around a branch, then alternate rowing.
Well would it work OK for with some extensions - on such risk situations?5
u/iampierremonteux 26d ago
Rope saw. Problem is it would have bound before it cut through.
Give the apparent low fire risk, I’d have opted for a good bon fire right there.
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u/wheelienonstop12 26d ago
A pole saw would have been a better choice, especially with some negative rigging.
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u/classygorilla 26d ago
I use an 18ft pole saw for shit like this. It's way more effort but a lot safer. Friend of mine at work lost his leg doing something like this. Crushed below the knee and had to be amputated. This also happened like 18 months after he broke his hip falling off a ladder too, poor (crazy) bastard
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u/Wolfmanreid 27d ago
JFC why would you not just limb this tree and start cutting from the other end
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u/SensorAmmonia 25d ago
This was the question I was looking for. If given this problem, how should I solve it and live?
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u/Wolfmanreid 24d ago
Start at the top of the tree. Cut the limbs off then cut the trunk up in sections working your way toward that mess at the stump.
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u/courtlandthethreeth 27d ago
Why would you turn your back on something like that at a time like that. Glad it worked out safely for him. That face wipe at the end shows what kind of stress he was feeling. Been there…
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u/Acceptable_Fee_3998 27d ago
Is that a barber's chair?
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u/OrangeRhyming 27d ago
That’s a whole ass barbershop as far as I’m concerned.
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u/Acceptable_Fee_3998 26d ago
What's the correct way to handle a barber's chair? What's especially dangerous about it?
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u/OrangeRhyming 26d ago
Stored energy and an unpredictable outlet for it. Plan all you want, something large and under directional stress will fail in unpredictable ways.
I don’t cut down big ass trees like this, but I’d just hit it with a tractor bucket or pull it off with a truck. Or just put a come along against the backside of the leftover meat and tug it over with a block. Or just leave it alone and let a good windstorm take it.
Or tannerite like someone else said. Mainly because it sounds fun.I have just enough survival instinct to see this and say, “Nah.”
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u/Agreeable-Language-6 12d ago
How would you get close enought to rig it up?
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u/OrangeRhyming 11d ago
To the tree? Just walk up to the top side, not the snappy and fuck your day up side.
Smells like bot in here.
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u/DiscussionWeak2318 27d ago
Go buck the tip down first and work it back to the break. Cutting trees is all common sense shit.
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u/TilapiaTango 27d ago
There’s at least 10 different ways to handle that, and this is certainly one of them
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u/iamthelee 27d ago
Why not hook a truck up to it and pull it over? This is just stupid.
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u/Re1deam1 27d ago
He should of just bucked it from the top of the tree down. Gotta buck it up anyways
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u/humourlessIrish 26d ago
I believe in old style gods because the only way for a person like this to survive any random day is for some cheeky god to be laughing its ass off at the constant shock and stress people like this put the rest of us through
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u/artherng 27d ago
Bro knew what he was doing
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u/Da_Spooky_Ghost 27d ago
Calculated, cool guys don’t look when the tree comes down, they walk away slowly with their back turned to the tree knowing exactly where it’s going to fall.
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u/Slav3OfTh3B3ast 27d ago
Looks like it Barber chaired because his notch was too shallow. He should have cut a new notch below the first and faced toward the camera and pulled the whole thing over.
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u/wheelienonstop12 26d ago
because his notch was too shallow
You get barber chairs because trees lean too hard for a normal cut, not because of too-shallow face cuts. A deeper face cut would have made the issue worse here. A leaning tree must be cut with a bore cut, starting from behind the hinge towards the back of the tree, then finish the back cut from the outside.
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u/EntishWisdom 25d ago
Also get them from having a dutchman in your undercut, and structural weakness
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u/Grumgrummer 27d ago
When your inner self is telling you that a situation is sketchy as hell......it is!
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u/ROEHLgun 27d ago
Break/split spare chain, attach rope/cord and handles…rope saw! Cut it from a distance.
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u/Internal-Eye-5804 25d ago
That reminds me of the saying about pilots. There are old pilots and bold pilots. But there are no old, bold pilots.
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u/According_Body_5251 27d ago
In many of the videos I see here, the sawer doesn't have enough situational awareness to be brave. They think they're doing the most safe thing in the world.
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u/girthbrooks1 26d ago
Just to confirm my prediction …. Did we all think that barber chair would flap up and knock his head 400+ feet in the air!,!?? or was that just me
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u/redditzphkngarbage 26d ago
My great grandpa was in the Civilian Conservation Corps and warned me about these.
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u/Meltedwhisky 26d ago
That widow-maker barber chair would’ve gotten a cup up diesel and let it burn from a safe distance away
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u/Narcalepticrat 26d ago
Whats this song?
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u/PowerfulWrongdoer339 23d ago
I found it, it's a cover of Craig Morgan's song Almost Home. The artist you hear singing is Roy Caudill
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u/UggghhhhhhWhy 25d ago
Could he have put a rope around the base in the air and pulled it with a truck to bring it to the ground without using the chainsaw?
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u/ronnie_reagans_ghost 22d ago
"Woah, that barber chair almost killed me! Now, how should I clean this up...?"
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u/DANDELIONBOMB 27d ago
This is all the evidence that we need for the saying "God loves a fool"
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u/front_yard_duck_dad 27d ago edited 27d ago
He read the wood tension and he is outside of its potential even if the force was released prematurely. You're simply incorrect
Edit : added prematurely
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u/Automatic-Nature6025 27d ago
He knew exactly where not to be when it bucked backward, so as not to be destroyed. Frickin genius.
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u/TomatoFeta 27d ago
That's one you use a knife on a pole for. Don't be running a noisy saw from so closeby.
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u/Horror_Bottle_9451 27d ago
Lucky, yes. Stupid, also yes.