Daniel
Carpal tunnel level member
- Location
- Suburban Philadelphia (Wayne)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNJajLg4Qi4
From wikipedia: The terms narcissism, narcissistic, and narcissist are often used as pejoratives, denoting vanity, conceit, egotism or simple selfishness.
I've watched a bunch of tree work on youtube and generally think most everybody just likes to watch themselves doing work. Though there is some cool stuff, falling techniques and camera angles etc... FAR too much of youtube videos are "man cuts limb, limb falls to ground", like there is something to be learned from watching gravity do its thing.
So I admit to being a bit narcissistic myself. I've taken the camcorder to three jobs now and found myself gazing at my reflection in a daze a few times. Right after the first time that happened I screwed up a job so badly, I was immediately humbled (thank God).. At least though I hope to give the viewer some value, some tidbits of education and worthwhile information. A friend stopped over to have me check his new climbing hitch and watched a couple videos after which he remarked that he never knew what a gunning line was before. Now he's been doing treework over 30 years and was the second guy in the area to get a 65' bucket back in the day.
Anyhow, your comments and suggestions are appreciated. I know I probably talked too much on camera, and have heard that I talked too fast. Everything was one take except the last shot which has yet to be put on youtube. That is the last shot of part 3. You can link to part 2 from youtube.
I know the loggers are going to laugh thinking they wouldn't make $10/hr if it took them that long to drop a tree, but when the tree is 100' tall and only 40' from a 2 million dollar house, I take my time... Probably need to speed up the action. I know that a lay person wouldn;t want to watch much of the video. I AM wondering if professionals think its too long as well....
From wikipedia: The terms narcissism, narcissistic, and narcissist are often used as pejoratives, denoting vanity, conceit, egotism or simple selfishness.
I've watched a bunch of tree work on youtube and generally think most everybody just likes to watch themselves doing work. Though there is some cool stuff, falling techniques and camera angles etc... FAR too much of youtube videos are "man cuts limb, limb falls to ground", like there is something to be learned from watching gravity do its thing.
So I admit to being a bit narcissistic myself. I've taken the camcorder to three jobs now and found myself gazing at my reflection in a daze a few times. Right after the first time that happened I screwed up a job so badly, I was immediately humbled (thank God).. At least though I hope to give the viewer some value, some tidbits of education and worthwhile information. A friend stopped over to have me check his new climbing hitch and watched a couple videos after which he remarked that he never knew what a gunning line was before. Now he's been doing treework over 30 years and was the second guy in the area to get a 65' bucket back in the day.
Anyhow, your comments and suggestions are appreciated. I know I probably talked too much on camera, and have heard that I talked too fast. Everything was one take except the last shot which has yet to be put on youtube. That is the last shot of part 3. You can link to part 2 from youtube.
I know the loggers are going to laugh thinking they wouldn't make $10/hr if it took them that long to drop a tree, but when the tree is 100' tall and only 40' from a 2 million dollar house, I take my time... Probably need to speed up the action. I know that a lay person wouldn;t want to watch much of the video. I AM wondering if professionals think its too long as well....
