A Fir Removal

[Oxman]

Takedown of a couple of Douglas Fir trees in Seattle. These trees were planted too close to the garage, knocking the foundation and roof off. Too bad.

 

[Oxman]

Here's a shot of the base of the tree trunks. Don't worry, this is the Buzzbuster Video forum, and the video will appear after we see the preliminary stuff.

 

[Oxman]

Here's some climber stripping off the limbs on the way up. Plywood on the roof kept the raingutter intact. The lawn made a nice drop zone.

 

[Oxman]

OK, enough torture, heres the video, called Fir Topping Movie.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6509320898328126632

 

[Oxman]

Close-up of the climber. All righty, let those comments about one-handing the 020 and the 046 fly.

I tried to embed these stills in the video, but the Windows Movie Maker software crashed. Maybe it was because they are housed on an external hard drive.

All these shots & video were taken with the Sony H9.

Maybe someone can say how to embed the video in a window in the body of the message, please? Thanks in advance.

 

[CHOPPER]

you could of blocked down onto the roof with that well constructed pad you built on it!

 

[allmark]

I wont bash the one handed technique even though its not good. If you do use that technique you shouldnt "burp" the throttle as it offers more of a chance of kickback, as does dragging the tip of the bar in to the cut as it goes over. You should just cut full rpm straight thru if it was an accepted practice.

 

[Roger_Barnett]

Huh? Sure, cut full throttle as reasonable, but ya best not cut all the hinge wood out.....

finesse, grasshoppa....

 

[Kevin]

Once the top is committed I 'll cut through the hinge wood to get the butt off quicker.

 

[AxeKnot]

There was no need for that cut and push technique on the top or the sections of timber. As for one handing the 46 in that situation - it looks very dangerous and the kind of thing that only the village idiot would partake in. Or its the kind of thing a climber does cause he knows he can get away with it....cause thats what treework is all about...knowing what you can get away with.

Overall I'd give the climber 3/10 for performance, with 10 being the best possible score.

 

[ROYCE]

With a little practice, you could get those pieces to land flat on the ground. Then their is less divots to fill in. Kinda rough IMO. I only say so because it must have been shared for critiquing.

 

[Roger_Barnett]

I've one handed when chunking rounds or sections for as long as I've been doing tree work, just like Mike did, and does.

It's all about production.

As safe as proper two handing? No.....but doubtful that an experienced cutter will ever have a problem.

I do try to make em land flat tho...and use two hands as much as can be easily done.

 

[Oxman]

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