Tree work in movies/television

[Roger_Barnett]

I read that Paul Newman really fugged up the filming schedule on Never Give An Inch, aka Sometimes a Great Notion.

They say he broke his foot trying to jump out of the bed of the crummy!

Fuggin rookie!

Jemco

Saw that movie way back when, maybe about the time I worked for a gyppo outfit out of Ketchikan for 3 weeks, summer of 1972. I was a total greenhorn. Seen the movie a few times since then. Newman cutting the union boss's desk in half with a Mac outfitted with at least a 42" bar was a hoot!

 

[evo]

Saw that movie way back when, maybe about the time I worked for a gyppo outfit out of Ketchikan for 3 weeks, summer of 1972. I was a total greenhorn. Seen the movie a few times since then. Newman cutting the union boss's desk in half with a Mac outfitted with at least a 42" bar was a hoot!

Sounds like you where there the same time my pops had a outfit up there. He was outside Criag

 

[Mowerr]

Just watched the new Conjuring movie. Pretty bad movie IMO. There was one scene where it looked like he was on spikes but I wasn’t paying much attention. He was not clipped in twice when going to make a cut either! Someone needs to call them up and have this movie pulled out of theaters.

I just saw it too. The story took place back in the late 70s early 80s I think. Very hard to tell if he had spikes or was tied in at all and idk what the rules and regs we're back then but they have a documentary on prime with the real people in it that I just watched yesterday which was pretty cool.
That scene was very weird and I only saw it once at the drive ins but it looked awkward like it was cgi green screen or something.

 

[Deleted member 19896]

Trees in LOTR did a lot of work.

 

[Tom Dunlap]

The opening vinette on 'Chicago Fire' was of a guy feet first in a chipper. His shoulders were at the edge of the infeed chute. The rollers had crushed his legs and the chipper was stopped when I tuned in. The rescue crew used their impact tools to dismantle the upper infeed roller. Then they lifted it out and pulled the worker out. Pretty tense scene but hard to believe that the worker wouldn't have bled out in that time. Oh well...like Dad would say when we pointed out large plot gaps...If that was true it wouldn't make much of a story would it?!

I surfed past the old 'Emergency' show and saw a guy laying in a tree. Backed up...guy was straddling a Y branch making it look like he was stuck. Rescuer free climbs up to him. A rope is tied to the limb...victim isn't secured...lowering rope is rigged through a branch over to the side. Rescuer downclimbs, puts a face in the side of the branch then makes a back cut to swing the branch, and victim, to the side. It all worked out.LOL I was expecting to see the hinge break and fall or the victim to fall out. Or, the rescuer who was cutting, and not tied in, to fall.

 

[Tom Dunlap]

have you heard anything about the tolkien?

What do you mean?

The first time I read LOTR was in 1969. I still have my first pocketbook editions.

 

[RopeShield]

the movie Sorcerer, has my favorite tree removal scene

 

[Stumpsprouts]

In Just Mercy (2019), Jaime Foxx plays a logger (I think he used the term pulper), who runs his own small operation in Alabama. The opening scene before the credits shows a red throw weight on a thick throw line dangling from a loblolly pine (I believe). He pulls up an unidentifiable rope. His assistant is shown pulling what looks to me to be a truckers hitch anchored around another tree for mechanical advantage. Jaime Foxx makes the cut with what looks like a poulan.

He’s the main character in the movie which has nothing to do with tree work. He is framed for a murder and put on death row. Definitely worth watching.

I almost forgot a key detail, this takes place in 1987. Seems pretty realistic as far as gear. No ppe.

 

[Tom Dunlap]

New Tribe was very key to developing throw bags as we know them. Studying the throwline would be telling too. back then we didn't have the variety of thin lines we have today.

 

[oldoakman]

In Just Mercy (2019), Jaime Foxx plays a logger (I think he used the term pulper), who runs his own small operation in Alabama. The opening scene before the credits shows a red throw weight on a thick throw line dangling from a loblolly pine (I believe). He pulls up an unidentifiable rope. His assistant is shown pulling what looks to me to be a truckers hitch anchored around another tree for mechanical advantage. Jaime Foxx makes the cut with what looks like a poulan.

He’s the main character in the movie which has nothing to do with tree work. He is framed for a murder and put on death row. Definitely worth watching.

I almost forgot a key detail, this takes place in 1987. Seems pretty realistic as far as gear. No ppe.

They still dont use ppe that much in Alabama. We've came a long way baby.

 

[Stumpsprouts]

New Tribe was very key to developing throw bags as we know them. Studying the throwline would be telling too. back then we didn't have the variety of thin lines we have today.

Yeah I’m curious about all this, but of course it was filmed in 2019. So I would assume they used products currently available.

 

[Tom Dunlap]

I bet that whoever was in charge of dressing the set in the movie would ever imagine that a very few tree nerds would ever be discussing the bits used in the movie.

I enjoy reading the IMDB webpage for movies or shows that I watch. If there is a weapon that doesn't fit the year that the pic is supposed to take place you can bet that someone will bring it up. CLothing errors...pockets, zippers, wrong sunglasses...all errors that get pointed out.

I'm happy to be part of this tree nerd group who watches the details. LOL

 

[Tom Dunlap]

A couple of nights ago I watched Deadpool 2

A group of X rookies parachute into a fight with disastrous results.

One ends up dropping feet-first into a big chipper

It was an ugly scene.

 

[Vicente]

Tucker and Dale vs evil has a pretty good chipper scene.
Sometimes I have a hard time enjoying shows/movies when there are things that are just horribly wrong its killed a few books I was half way through too. One of the reasons I enjoy science fiction, there's very little to find fault with since it's not based on anything in the real world for the most part.

 

[skew]

I don't know how to post link but....
Harvesting beer ingredients 150ft up a tree on you tube.
This "reality tv" show contacted me out of the blue.
Pretty contrived but kind of fun.

 

[treej]

Watching "Problem Child" with the kids the other night, at the end of the movie before the credits was a red bucket truck driving on the highway lol.

 

[Jonny]

Found a little tree work while watching Forest Gump, I think.
Early in the movie young Forest and Sally Field are walking up their driveway. In the background are ( I think) some big Southern Live Oak, and it looks like there’s a brace holding up a heavy low limb on one of them.
Pretty sure it’s a brace, no idea what else it could be.