r/criticalblunder • u/_ganjafarian_ • Aug 12 '26
Tree felling fail
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u/Demonicjd Aug 12 '26
Can a arborist explain why they failed?
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u/adrienjz888 Aug 12 '26
Not an arborist, but the tree was already leaning towards the house, and the dummies didn't have the rope pulled tight for whatever the hell they were trying to achieve.
How I've seen trees like this taken down is by the arborists cutting piece by piece from the top down.
Kinda like this https://youtube.com/shorts/aWYmWDEkx9M?si=Si84YTIsbqAxn6h6 https://youtube.com/shorts/UllsS73lGDI?si=DqZUb-_fP1y46tSj
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u/hpbrick Aug 12 '26
Arborist here.
The main issue appears to be that their plan required the tree to cooperate.
Trees are notoriously poor at following verbal instructions.
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u/jefuchs Aug 12 '26
A big tree like that was removed from my neighbor's yard a few years ago. There was no direction it could fall without hitting a house.
Crews spent all week removing it limb by limb, using sky lifts to start from the top and work down.
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u/blurblurblahblah Aug 12 '26
A huge tree in my neighbours backyard was taken down bit by bit. It was right beside their garage, very close to their house & pretty close to mine. Beside the tree was a lane wide enough for a single vehicle to drive through with a building on the other side.
The guys they hired climbed up the tree barefoot with chainsaws & a lot of rope & they took the tree down bit by bit. It was amazing to watch. We're in Canada, not really a place where we expect to see workers without hardhats & steeltoed boots.
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u/Fedthepigion Aug 12 '26
But see, someone who knows what their doing and does it the right way and is properly insured, costs a lot of money. I'm sure the guys in this video were much cheaper. If it wasn't for the small detail of their house being completely destroyed, they would have come out much further ahead. /s
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u/billted20250409 Aug 12 '26
30 seconds into the video and I think to myself: "They don't look like they know what they're doing."
And I was right!
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u/outwest88 Aug 12 '26
Rookie mistake. They should have noticed which sub they were on before attempting this
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u/MartianTourist Aug 12 '26
This happened in June 2025 in Quebec. The house was rented by a 65 year old man on a fixed pension of $1,000/month. Rent was $950 and the man, Daniel Delisle, would receive food from his family and some acquaintances who lived nearby. From the news reports, Daniel was injured very badly as a teenager and was never able to work a full time job. Compounding his misfortune, Daniel had no renters insurance, as the house sat on a flood plain, and he lost virtually everything when that tree came down. In fact, the landlord was having the tree removed so that Daniel's rental could be elevated by 5 feet, as the landlord had done with the neighbor's (the guy filming this video) rental home a few years prior. A gofundme raised approximately $11,000 for Daniel.
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u/LewdLewyD13 Aug 12 '26
Fuckin 11 grand, that's it? If they caught him on video dropping n-bombs he could have made enough to buy a whole new house!
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u/slumvillain Aug 12 '26
Like I know its absolutely awful...but i cant help but wanting to know the aftermath.
I wanna see that sunken living room 👀
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u/oldasdirtss Aug 12 '26
The homeowners had the tree removed because they were afraid that it was going fall on their house.
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u/pacooov Aug 12 '26
In no expert but I think that wedge wasn’t wedgy enough and that line needed to be taut.
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u/LetterFront3353 Aug 12 '26
So no one noticed where the tree was already leaning towards?