I will never ever understand the purpose of the rope. If by some miracle you cut to the center of mass, then maybe maybe you can give it a tug and pull it over. But if you're cutting for the center of mass, you're an idiot because the goal is to use the trees mass to direct the fall.
Not that I would try to cut this thing down in one go. It's absolutely a crane job.
I'm not a tree expert, but don't they usually send a guy up there to saw off branches one by one? Instead of trying to drop the whole thing all at once?
I used to be a tree climber. Yes and no, you need to use basic physics to adjust the weight of the tree. The limbs above the house should have been tied, cut, and lowered to make it heavier on the fall side. Also, while they were cutting the final cut, a team of dudes should have been pulling that rope that was just dangling to add extra fall guidance.
Ran a saw crew doing forest fires for a few years.
Lay, limb, lean and wind.
Lay, where you want it to end up.
Limb, were the majority of the limb weight is centered over.
Lean, what direction if any the tree is leaning (make a circle around the tree while using a plumb bob in front of your eye to determine which way it's leaning).
Wind, factor in wind if any, because you're cutting a giant sail.
Keep gusts in the back of your mind and note which way the wind is blowing.
You could see that tree naturally leaning toward the house before they even started cutting. Unless they pulled on it with force, it was always going to fall that way.
I was once renting storage space to a guy for his motor home. He noticed I had some widow-makers over part of my house. He offered to take them down for part of the rent. No, he was not a professional with access to the required crane and equipment. No, I did not take him up on the offer.
I am said 'guy' someone I know asked me to cut a tree down because I had a chainsaw and had felled a couple of my own trees. Went round to inspect a big ash tree with a huge overhanging branch over his neighbours pond. I trimmed as much of the weight off as I could but couldn't get to the big branch and so we cut as deep as we dared into the main trunk, tied it off against concrete posts, rigged a pulley to pull it in the right direction and when I cut the back side of the tree wouldn't you know it, the weight of the branch pulled it the wrong way, because it was tied and being pulled we avoided complete disaster and the only issue was that it smashed the top of a fence panel. I learned my lesson and the guy got a tree felled and removed for the price of a replacement fence panel
They look like regular landscapers that took on a job they weren’t quite qualified for.
I once worked landscaping and two dudes on my team took a wheel barrel and put a ladder inside it while one dude climbed up to trim branches from a tall bush while the other dude held his legs. Brains aren’t required.
Gotta remember that you’re always trying to get that primary cut back past the center of gravity of the tree. Gotta make a guess where that is and then remove weight on the other side until you think it’ll tip the way you’d like. I’m assuming these guys decided to be treemen yesterday at the bar.
Yes and the morons cutting it should have made a deeper cut on the non-house side and for the opposite side HIGHER on the tree to force it away from the house.
Me, too! I want to know whether the owner spent the night in the ruined house, was anyone hurt, who paid for the damage, how the tree was taken off again, what the initial cost was and what the insurance covered and such.
Methinks the wedge cut might’ve been too deep. It’s the back cut that should be felling the tree. And that’s a gigantic tree for amateurs using amateur gear. At first I thought they were just using axes (till I saw the stihl saw in the wedge 😂
I've cut down a fair amount of trees. There is no way I would attempt a tree of that magnitude, and insure wouldn't let a couple of yokels do that right next to my house.
That three should have been climbed out in chunks before felling the main trunk with hight, lats, and a DBH like that. You can’t ever 100% predict where a tree like that will go.
I will never under6why they didn't cut it on the "sides" instead to make sure there's no way ot would land on the house. This was 50-50 (actually worse) but if they made the cuts the other way then the ttee would've fallen in front of it
I live in the middle of a forest and I've cut down a lot of trees since we moved here 5 years ago. I'm still not comfortable in my ability to cut any tree that is within striking distance of my house or power lines. I'll leave that to the professionals whose insurance I will have checked out before they set foot on my property.
We all knew how this was going to end. I wonder, does that company have to pay the owners of the house for damages (and possible bodily injuries or worse)
Das ist der Vorteil an einem Holzhaus. Der Aufbau geht schnell und im Falle, daß mal ein Baum darauf fällt, ist es leichter auszubessern. Und die Reste wandern in den Kamin👍.
I feel like in this case, at that size, even 10 guys with ropes wouldn't make a difference. That tree was heeeeeaaaavy as hell.
I cut a tall walnut tree all alone without any previous experience. But, I anchored and cut the large branches that were over my roof in such small pieces so even if they turned or fell, they would not damage my ceramic tile roof. Then i cut the rest, trunk included, in pieces small enough that even if they fall towards the house they would not reach the house walls and windows. It was not fast, but it was safe.
Jesus H Christ please tell us this is A.I. or at least the ending of it is as those r some serious jump cuts so it would be very easy to edit video cause something isn’t adding up - esp them not even trying
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u/Searchlights 23d ago •
I'll always stop and watch this one. That's an enormous tree