Barber Chair caught on video!

Jamin_Mayer

Jamin_Mayer

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Longmont, CO
I've always taken precaution on leaning trees with bore cuts and a trigger combo. Here is a short video to show how fast a barber chair could kill a faller.

The guy mentioned he's a rookie faller, but he did a great job getting out of the way (except for not putting down the saw).

This is a perfect teaching opportunity for the Monday morning tailgate meeting.

Falling a tree gone wrong (barber chair).
 
I agree Norm, But that little baby toothpick, is about as simple as instant oatmeal. my belief is when she starts to chair you got two choices, saw like a bugger or move out. If your saw won't keep up then you got one choice. kinda like a juice rig to a friction rig. I feel I am safer on the stump most of the time. Why blame the tree ? What about the person jammin' the saw into the tree ? We are dealin with mother nature. one third saw/ one third chain/ one third operator. This business is the real deal. So many folks only see the money. Nobody has ever told em' how easy it is to die or get busted up. If you wanna see a barber chair / sink into a 20" heavy leanin Alder/ or better yet a piece of vine Maple. I was just throwin' the chain idea out there as a saftey/ It has saved alot city-dudes . Take care Allen
 
better safe than sorry. I couldent agree more with the use of a chain in a preasure cut or lightning struck senario. I keep a coffie cup full of long nails on the truck for this reason. It makes it so much easier to put the chain in place. Tack the nail through the chain link and start wraping the chain. put a nail every foot or so and the chain will stay in place while you are locking it down. I also keep a chain screw binder on the truck to get the chain as tight as possible. I just hooked the chain to its self before with out tightning it and when the fibers started to pull thay moved just enough to bind the saw. The nails help when working out of a bucket or saddle as well if you want to shure up a tight included croch before loading it. I wouldent trust a ratchet strap on any thing big. I had the hook blow appart once on a vary large split preasure cut. Wish I had pictures of that senario to share. Like I mentioned better safe than sorry you dont get a second chance.Great video thanks for sharing
 
The way the tree starts to move, stops and then chairs I'll bet money that he had a nice long dutchman in his face cut. Cut up properly that tree would not have barberchaired.

And to those who said he should have stayed at the stump, who knows if his saw and chain were up to the task? Better to get out of there, especially as he is by his own admission a rookie.

It appears to be a Bigleaf Maple, so at very least it is a tree that chairs extremely easily.
 
it would be interesting to have seen the face cut and examined the tree. from this video, it seems odd that the tree barber-chaired the way it did. I'll bet Gord's right on the money, there's a mis-matched cut or a dutchman on the far side, away from the camera. The way he started his back cut, he may have even cut through the holding wood on the far corner.

from the ol' armchair here, that tree looked very straightforward.
 
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That was my impression as well. I did't see too much of a lean to rais concern. However, we couldn't see mass. The picture frame didn't allow for us to see how much crown was there.
 
Interesting sequence of events:

The tree does have some motion to it.

It stops moving and at 32 seconds, he hears (and I'm sure felt) the crack.

He takes about 2-3 steps back to look up and 2 more seconds have gone by.

He looks a the cut and moves in 2 more steps to cut more. At 37 seconds, the tree splits and he is on the run.
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It took the split section of wood 5 seconds from the initial split, to hit the ground where the tree faller would have been. (See seconds 37-45).

His escape plan was perpendicular to the fall of the tree (It worked just fine). Stihl recommends 2 escape paths at about 45° opposite direction of the fall.

I've foolishly stood 180° directly behind the direction of the fall of a tree a long time ago. When the whole tree hit the ground it threw a limb directly back at me. It was about 4' in length and about 4" in diameter. I literally had to duck out of the way for that. After that incident I understood why Stihl recommends 45°.
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