DON'T EVEN TRY IT!

rico said:
"It coming right at me so I'm gonna have to boogie when it comes over"

Your own words and your undercut make it pretty clear that you missed your intended lay by well over 45%'s. Pure backyard hackery.....

Care to explain the horrid undercut, and why you chose to just leave the top/limb hung up like that?
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RICO RICO RICO... a man who acts like he knows what's going on but then composes endless comments that make no sense .. the tree, with the hanging top, cleared the only obstacle and landed harmlessly in a wide-open yard. The only thing needed from that hinge and pull line was to clear the shrub..... The drop zone itself was over 45 degrees wide. Everything I did was enough to make 100% sure the tree made the lay and no more!

The other interesting aspect of this job is how the top was cut and just hung on a short rope in order to shorten the tree and keep it from locking tips with the adjacent tree. That top was leaning over the neighbor's yard, so we just pulled it over with the tree to keep all the mess on our side of the fence, and avoid having to work around the neighbor's plantings.

The face cut was high because there was a metal fence embedded in the lower portion of the tree, with a funny looking bend and deformation in the trunk just above that, so I was reaching from the ground to make the face cut overhead, another violation of @Tony 's boy scout rules.. Hey Tony.. at least I wasn't one-handing a ground saw from a ladder with no saddle or tie in (balancing that saw like a circus performer) as Buckin Billy showed so proudly...
 
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tree #1 was planned for hinge failure. the machine op was instructed to get it lifted up far enough to clear the tree it was hung in, then stop. The only way to get it off the tree it was locked up with was to pull exactly 180 degrees to the lay. If we had kept going with the pull, and landed the tree 180 degrees from the lean it would have ended up in the trees behind it. It makes no sense that any tree man with half a wit would look at the wide canopy which landed perfectly in the lawn, clearing the fence, and say that tree got lost or shanked... COMPLETE STUPIDITY.. but hey don't feel bad... you're not the only one that sees and still doesn't believe.

Tree #2 had a back lean of 60 degrees. If there is a video of another tree with that much back lean getting pulled over against the lean, please post it, because I haven't seen it. The tree was hanging over the creek. While it didn't make it all the way to the open yard as the first tree had, it cleared the creek which was over 60 degrees of standing up, then laid up into the same tree the first one had been freed from *(slightly off the intended lay). With one more easy cut from the ground and another pull on the same pull line with the skid steer, that tree too was on the ground. no big deal that it didn't exactly make the lay. NO CRANE NEEDED! Again the cut was enough to get the job done. If I had absolutely needed more precision, I would have made that happen.

These are things that had never been shown on video (planned hinge failure and pulling over a 60 degrees backleaner) on youtube in 2010, and probably still haven't.

That video has 1.2 million views... take a look at the comments:

slofr8dan6 years ago
Holy shit you've got a big brass set! I was a logger back in the '80s...still use a saw every couple of months or so and never would have attempted that. Thumbs up stud!

ThomasTheSailor Chubby2 years ago
Back leaners,! it's an Art. The Tree must go up before it comes down,

Scott W.1 week ago
You're tree skillz are second to few. (There's always someone better), but you're at the top. But that music tho...

kevin griffin6 years ago
daniel murphy you are the KING of felling trees!!!!! i enjoy watching keep em coming!!!

Gary Parent4 years ago
Nice job. Loved how you pulled the first tree free then let it drop! PERFECT

Strongarms7 years ago
pretty slick as shit mother fuckin' right on you guys are badass rock on!!!!

Jamin Mayer9 years ago
Okay. Everything else you have shown... I've done. But, you seriously have some serious ballz to do that. Nice job. You pulled it off! Don't get complacent with your risky stunts brother,

I'd bet $100 that all the critics on this thread don't have a combined 1.2 million views. so who's jealous? Who criticizes WHAT THEY CAN'T DO THEMSELVES?

3Sphere5 years ago
You're either reckless crazy with pretty good luck, or smart like a fox. I can't decide which.

Scott L. Royal7 years ago
What I continue to like about your videos are they show what IS possible.

Woofie Dawg!2 years ago
What a fantastic video. It's a real treat to see a true professional at the height of his game at work. Very impressed indeed!

Declan Nalced7 years ago
Awesome! Wicked knowledge guy! Thanks for posting.

Jason Luck4 months ago
That was amazing! I bet you can make that tree do a two-step.

Slammer3 months ago
You have excellent planning and execution skills. Thanks for sharing.
 
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Daniel said:
RICO RICO RICO... a man who acts like he knows what's going on but then composes endless comments that make no sense .. the tree, with the hanging top, cleared the only obstacle and landed harmlessly in a wide-open yard. The only thing needed from that hinge and pull line was to clear the shrub..... The drop zone itself was over 45 degrees wide. Everything I did was enough to make 100% sure the tree made the lay and no more!

The face cut was high because there was a metal fence embedded in the lower portion of the tree, with a funny looking bend and deformation in the trunk just above that, so I was reaching from the ground to make the face cut overhead, another violation of @Tony 's boy scout rules.. Hey Tony.. at least I wasn't one-handing a ground saw from a ladder with no saddle or tie in (balancing that saw like a circus performer) as Buckin Billy showed so proudly...
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You do realize your tree didn't clear the shrub, and in fact came up short of the shrub?

That's because you severely missed your lay, but are simply to dihonest to own it.

"It gonna be coming right at me so I'm gonna have to boogie when it comes over". Your words and pretty tough to hide from when your tree ends up 60 degrees from where you were standing, and where your undercut was sighted.... if you were golfing you would be playing your next shot from a few fairways away.....Shank!

Speaking of that undercuts, that one was something super special Daniel (40 degrees out of plumb), and undoubtedly played a big part in that pecker pole going sideways... Pure backyard laziness and hackery bro...

Speaking of lazinesss and hackery, how about that hung up top you decided to just leave up there. Did you clowns not see that it was limb locked with the little tree behind it (watch the movement in the vid). Yet another reason you lost your little pecker pole sideways.....
 
All of that was not unexpected. The tree and (of course I saw it was a bit tangled) the top landed in the yard. That was all that was needed. It got done. but of course, I was standing well within 100% height of the fall, so I had to be ready to move. That's just a safety precaution. I do generally stay clear of 100%+ the height of the tree drop zone when the tree is crippled and we are tripping the fall with the machine. And if you saw where the machine was. I explained to the op that the tree could end up going his way so to keep moving back even after the tree went with gravity. So he was well away from me. I could have gotten a little more out of the hinge by leaving it thicker, but with the hanging top possibly locking tips with the adjacent branches I kept the hinge thin enough to ensure the pull was enough to get the top limb free. Those are all the nearly subconscious little decisions that are made to solve the particular puzzle at hand.
 

The opening footage (0:00-0:17) shows us all we need to know Daniel.. You lost your tree severely to the right, missing the canopy opening by 50-60 degress, and you manage to get your tree hung up in the tree way off to the right. The stilll photo at 2:29 also tell us what we need to know about your cutting expertise.. The tree is fucking 75-80 degrees wide right of the undercuts sighted. That is the very definition of loosing a tree over sideways... I'll bet you meant to do that, huh Daniel? Planned hinge failure and all?
 
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Daniel said:
All of that was not unexpected. The tree and (of course I saw it was a bit tangled) the top landed in the yard. That was all that was needed. It got done. but of course, I was standing well within 100% height of the fall, so I had to be ready to move. That's just a safety precaution. I do generally stay clear of 100%+ the height of the tree drop zone when the tree is crippled and we are tripping the fall with the machine. And if you saw where the machine was. I explained to the op that the tree could end up going his way so to keep moving back even after the tree went with gravity. So he was well away from me. I could have gotten a little more out of the hinge by leaving it thicker, but with the hanging top possibly locking tips with the adjacent branches I kept the hinge thin enough to ensure the pull was enough to get the top limb free. Those are all the nearly subconscious little decisions that are made to solve the particular puzzle at hand.
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Was it a nearly "subconscious decision" that made you make that undercut, or was it pure laziness and hackery that kept you from throwing on some spurs and making a proper undercut?

Was it a nearly "subconscious decision" that made you leave that top hung up and limb lock with the nearby tree, or was it pure lazinesss and hackery the that forced you to say "fuck it" and try to that little pecker pole even though you knew it was limb locked with another tree?

No wonder you lost it over sideways...
 
rico said:

The opening footage (0:00-0:17) shows us all we need to know Daniel.. You lost your tree severely to the right, missing the canopy opening by 50-60 degress, and you manage to get your tree hung up in the tree way off to the right. The stilll photo at 2:29 also tell us what we need to know about your cutting expertise.. The tree is fucking 75-80 degrees wide right of the undercuts sighted. That is the very definition of loosing a tree over sideways... I'll bet you meant to do that, huh Daniel? Planned hinge failure and all?
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Completely planned. If you can't see that, you're not even close. You have no business commenting or criticizing my work.

THAT TREE HIT NOTHING BUT LAWN. perfect drop! Can't you see where the tree would have ended up if it did go to the pull?

That video has 1.2 million views. Now let's add up all the combined views of all the haters on this thread and see if they can make 10% of that number. 120,000 views. DO you have it? so who's jealous
 
made a little over $1,900 in 2019 from youtube videos, which represents countless hours of work over the last 11 years.

I just finished a 7,000 job in the last two days, of which I was onsite for about 6 or 7 hours total.
 
ppsavage said:
What's the most you ever make in one day.
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$13,500 one tree. I subbed it to another company that $750,000 in iron on site and I paid them $4,500 tree was cut up, loaded, and cleaned up in 4.5 hours. 2 75' 4x4 rear mounts, 2 15" chippers with chip trucks, 1 mini skid, and 1 log truck. No stump. Image.webp
 

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$13,500 one tree. I subbed it to another company that $750,000 in iron on site and I paid them $4,500 tree was cut up, loaded, and cleaned up in 4.5 hours. 2 75' 4x4 rear mounts, 2 15" chippers with chip trucks, 1 mini skid, and 1 log truck. No stump. View attachment 65579
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Sounds like the customer got taken. $9000 for setting up the job. How did you arrive at that? This sounds fishy, $13500 for a 4.5 hour job this doesnt add up.
 
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