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Daniel I know you get a lot of crap on here but I have always enjoyed your videos.Keep em coming.I really like how that cut worked.Is your 200t ported?Sounds mean.

Steve Baker
 
Jesse what was unsafe?Not disagreeing with you or trying to start an argument just want to know your take on it.I'm only a couple years into this trade and am trying to learn everything I can.

Thanks Steve
 
He cut a big peice of wood and then climbed underneath it.
Im not sure I could explain it as well as his camera work does.
I THINK he tries to minimize his time and exposure in the tree by doing stuff like this.
Sorry, Ill keep climbing higher, further out and yes Ill make more, smaller cuts.
Im not the sharpest tool in the Treebuzz shed so hopefull someone worthy will respond.
I learned a little from Daniel in the begginning. I likes the balance rigging (some of it). For the most part though, he just scares the hell out of me.
 
shame Jesse,
I thought you had a good head on your shoulders prior to these last posts... that piece was tied off in an adjacent tree. No chance of falling on me, even if it went... took 3 men pulling on a high pull line to trip the hinge.. no one on the dz.. up and down in 10 minutes... it doesn't get any safer than that!
 
note: there were two pull lines and 1 lowering line set on that top. the pull line seen set just over the notch, was only used to as a tag line to pull the butt out away from the fence whent the top was being lowered down..

the 200 is not ported.. just good audio on the sony camcorder.. and thanks for your comment
 
then why in the video did you say, "now thats why I didnt want to be anywhere NEAR that top, when it came out of there"...yadda yadda

Thats what I heard anyways.

Too lazy to set a block again I see.
Any damage to the cambium on that tree you rigged off of?

Shame on me...HA
 
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Jesse what was unsafe?Not disagreeing with you or trying to start an argument just want to know your take on it.I'm only a couple years into this trade and am trying to learn everything I can. Thanks Steve

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There is a 14" diameter black cherry top cut and ready to 'pop off'. Who's to say when the top will pop off? He's putting himself "at risk" while descending just below a severed 14" top. He said it himself "This tree's been dead a long time." Dead black cherries are very unstable and very brittle.
Being 2 years into the trade, learn from his video's of what 'not to do'.

Kinda ironic that this video was posted right after the Post in "Awakenings" on "What keeps you safe?"
 
You are both stuck in a box... well beyond boy scouts...
when the top went the dead tips of the top broke and fell as I knew they would.. I actually mispoke on the vidoe.. the top had been dead for a while, but the tree was alive.. green wood at the cut.. it wouldn't have mattered either way though..
there was zero danger to either the climber or the ground crew!
 
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There is a 14" diameter black cherry top cut and ready to 'pop off'. Who's to say when the top will pop off? He's putting himself "at risk" while descending just below a severed 14" top.

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I AM to say.. I made the cut and know what its going to take to trip it!.. if you don't do the same, then you have something to learn... I invented this cut and have been using it for some time and know it well.. I originally intended to leave the hinge and fused back cut so strong as to require the use of a skid steer to trip it, but slightly overcut my intended hinge, leaving it thin enough to where I KNEW we could get it to trip with 3 men on a HIGH pull line... we had to rock it a little, but it went..

I have these cuts dialed in.. what you think is dangerous is just another "no problem" falling cut to me. I have actually begun to take your criticisms as compliments.
 
Well, there were a few elements of danger; the big orange thing you scared out of the tree was breathing heavy and had a crazy look in its eyes . . . good thing it landed on the other side of the fence!

Otherwise, no big whoop. Nobody else knows the cut you're using, which is why as you drive through the western U.S., you'll notice a lot of dead tops in the trees. Keep teaching the boy scouts, and we'll start clearing that skyline.

I think you'd be great to have a beer with, but I worry you would stay in that narrator mode all night. Especially with the ex post facto observations. You'd open a beer and it would foam up and you'd say, "that's exactly what I knew was going to happen, which is why I took an overhand grip on the lid."

Nice work.
 
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I think you'd be great to have a beer with, but I worry you would stay in that narrator mode all night. Especially with the ex post facto observations. You'd open a beer and it would foam up and you'd say, "that's exactly what I knew was going to happen, which is why I took an overhand grip on the lid."

Nice work.

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Hahhaha good analogy!
 
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It isnt a good idea to rock the stem when cut. If the hinge breaks before it rocksback again the controlis lost.
 
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