Anyone...?

This was clearly his version of a conventional face and back cut.. not a snap cut.. Check the still motion at the end of the vid.. operator is completely off balance, with a big saw flying out of control over his head... looks like he is heading for the ground and the saw will land on top of him.. crazy!!!
 
He by-passed the face and lost control of the 'fall'.

In effect, he WAS making a snap cut. When the tree went to plumb it rotated and broke the 'hinge' making a barber chair inside which snagged the saw. The after-effect is that the butt jumped back.

Did he get hit? It sure looks like he would have gotten smacked, HARD!
 
C'mon Tom,
That's too much for us all to follow :)... you gotta remember, "we're all just a bunch of dumb tree cutters" ...

How 'bout keeping it simple.. he bypassed the far corner of his hinge by allowing the tip to come way past the gun... If he had used the gunning line to make sure the back cut was comin in parallel to the hinge, there is no way he would have let the tip get so far ahead of the gun..

Moral of the story is "use the gunning lines to line up the back cut as well as the notch".. It's simple and very effective..


Then of course there is the height of the back cut on the near side of the hinge, and the way he cut the back cut so far off level..

That saw pulled both his feet off the ground.. he went airbourne like Kobe... LOL .. he must really love that saw to hold onto it like that...

More later... I'll try to get the clip into final cut and slow it down so we can take a closer look... I generally find it distasteful to make fun of others' incompetence... BUT this is too good!
 
Bad cut line up for sure but he would have still been ok had he pulled the saw out of the kerf and got the L out of Dodge like he should be doing. Not standing there watching like I've seen ?urph do a few times.
 
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That is a great example of saw snatch.. anyone know the best way to avoid that when falling?

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Are you referring to the legendary Step Cut?
 
You would think that the herd would, through natural selection, thin itself to the point where we wouldn't have these idiots out there and we could start to make a decent living.
 
Anyone can do our job. Heck, look at the placement on this one.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lYabYFW4aM&feature=related
 
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I love the free "How not to do it" Youtube training videos for my employees. Keep posting!

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Its surprising to see so little response to this video.. Its a real good example of two of the most common mistakes in tree falling..
 
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