Quick time or Mpeg?

The fellow I work for has a Bandit 254 with grapples and a winch. But even so it will still take the better part of the day to clean up all the bursh on those trees.

The tree uprooting caught me by surprise. After it was all over it was easy to see that its roots were pitifully lacking on the side that pulled out. With the triple not all the way cut up left the north spar still standing. And by the way it was tied to the opposing, or south spar with two runs of 9/16 stable braid. So the front spar pulled on and uprooted the back tree and it in turn hit the stable braid and snapped it like kite string.

It didn't go exactly as I planned. That's pretty easy to see, but still ended up where it was supposed to go. It was a matter of figuring a way to trip the whole works loose. And then get the heck out of there.

I'm sure most people visiting this forum has been in similiar situations where they got to drop everything and run for their life. There's a lot of that during storm damage. Don't you know. Just make sure, before you trip it loose, you got a way out.

Later, Jerry B
 
Jerry;
I couldn't see what happened because the camera man took flight /forum/images/graemlins/grin.gif but I assume that some of the holding wood departed early closing the notch without completely breaking across the entire stump and the weight of the cluster pulled the root ball from the ground.
 
Nice video and I just love those tense action moments ... when all works out OK.

Well done and I like the way you run commentry ... sort of like a documentary but real life.
 
Kevin, What happened the final moments is pretty much what you described. Had everything held together I would have turnd the land camera on the final moments, but it just happened too fast.

Oh, if you didn't notice, that background music was the same that I put in the Drop Test Video.

I'm off to work, later

Jerry B
 
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