rockin 4 minute vid

Daniel

Daniel

Carpal tunnel level member
Location
Suburban Philadelphia (Wayne)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_z9Lkw8sbI


Watch full screen and turn the volume up...

editor came back in last weekend and we put two vids together.. I like the second even better than this one..

youtube muted the audio track of the second vid, because it has a Clapton song, and Warner Music Group does not allow their copyrighted material to be played on youtube. I can hopefully work around that and get the video up.
 
i am impressed that those hinges held on those trees as long as they did...did you plan on them ending up 90 degrees off course in both cases? I assume not, but I could not hope to figure out how you weigh risk factors.
Even though I would never try to overcome that much lean under any circumstance, I still enjoy watching humans and machines (i use wedges) to overcome serious gravitational forces.
I guess I'm givin props. but only cause your nuts man!
 
that's not a back leaner that's a forward leaner

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Nice, errrr....maybe not, did you plan on the hinge breaking nd it going many degrees off the pull?

...but why bore cut a back leaner? It doesn't allow you to finesse the amount of pull

I just did a hard side leaning alder today, that needed to be moved about 20 degrees off its lean to hit a relatively small drop zone. Set a side line and used the chipper winch. Faced it right toward a bridge, to make sure it would swing far enough to clear the willow that it leaned over. Used the triangular shaped hinge that I prefer over bore cutting.... to limit barberchair of course. Held wood on the side opposite the pull, and when I saw it going a bit toward the bridge, cut the inside wood, and it fell perfectly.

I have pics and video, but my customer and friend, who was filming, failed to hit the start button, so we missed the actual felling. I should have brought my tripod.
 
It seems to me that bore cutting a back leaner, setting wedges, then tripping the holding wood and walking away comfortably, is about 10,000 times safer then sitting by the stump chasing a backcut with an unpredictable seriously back weighted stem sitting over your head.
I can am actually giving Daniel a safety compliment for this particular maneuver. This is no way should reflect my feelings for other features he has posted...
If he had chased that backcut then who knows what would have happened. It could have turned into a textbook fell. Or, if you note the position of the stem in relation to the stump in the final picture, think of which side you would have chased that back cut from...
 
hey Roger,
Do you have any idea how stupid that question is...

Was I planning on the hinge breaking and the tree falling harmlessly into the lawn... OR WHAT? taking it all the way back to hang up in the tree and/or take out the fence?

Why bore cut a backleaner?... Another stupid question.. when I just showed you why...

You're not even close....

so next time you think about dis'n me, remember that when I have a big tree to fall in a tight LZ, I grab the saw, NOT THE PHONE!
 
Some big dicey drops there. Only a few trees nearby with collateral damage. I guess that's good enough for your clients.

I'm glad I don't work at a company that would encourage such recklessness on a client's property.

Good work though, keep filming, one day you will be the "grizzly man" of tree work.


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hey Roger,
Do you have any idea how stupid that question is...

Was I planning on the hinge breaking and the tree falling harmlessly into the lawn... OR WHAT? taking it all the way back to hang up in the tree and/or take out the fence?

Why bore cut a backleaner?... Another stupid question.. when I just showed you why...

You're not even close....

so next time you think about dis'n me, remember that when I have a big tree to fall in a tight LZ, I grab the saw, NOT THE PHONE!

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Oh brother, now little Daniel is telling Roger he's asking stupid questions. It's just hysterical how completely oblivious Daniel is. I heard he got his picture on the cover of TCIA Mag... that explains this bizarre ego trip.

Daniel needs to grow up and realize that being unique doesn't make him special and that all this tree stuff... it's been done before, with and without skid steers.

...and he needs to see what a a tight LZ is... cuz there hasn't been one in any of his videos.

DAniel is very good at having luck too because what I see on these videos involves at least as much hoping as knowing.


Tell you what Daniel, drop yourself a big doug fir through an open 36" fence gate about 50' away and then you can deign to talk to Roger as a peer... until then you got nuthin'.
 
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Tell you what Daniel, drop yourself a big doug fir through an open 36" fence gate about 50' away and then you can deign to talk to Roger as a peer... until then you got nuthin'.

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I'd like to see Rog's pics/ video of that, and Daniel's.
 
I coulda sworn there was a gate there, it's been a while since I've seen it. I take that part back.

Roger knows his business and he's fairly humble about it. Having Daniel go off on him for asking valid questions begged for a smartass response... which I happen to be pretty good at... the smartass thing I mean... you should see me when I'm doing Grumpy Smartass!
 
Sorry, but I have no use for bore cutting a back leaner.....I want to being applying gradual pressure all the way over......

I'll look for the video of the ones I did years ago, where the target was primaries....if it went the wrong way, that is......We used the GRCS to gradually stand it up, then over it went.

Piece o' cake....

Take your bore cuts and shove em....except head leaners...
 
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Yeah Rog, sure thing... video or it didn't happen!

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pffffffffsssssssssssssttttttttttt.

I know I know...no one was around, so did that big tree in the woods make a noise when it fell.....reckon we'l neva know...
 
Get your story straight Blinky..
everything Roger dropped on that video was bombs away (from the look of it)..

when he had a tight tree to drop he picked up the phone..
"hey dave, What are you doing tomorrow?"

nothin' wrong with that, but it does tell you about his confidence in his falling skills at the time.. I might have been scared of that drop 8 years ago too, but today, I'd take that much wiggle room on a straight tree with good wood, ALL DAY LONG..
 
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