Bird
Epic Contributor
Of course we've had a number of threads and discussions about chainsaw safety equipment, hard hats, gloves, chaps, hearing protection, and eye protection, and no one has recommended doing it the way these guys do it. This is about a 60 foot tall cottonwood tree next door. A lot of big roots are above ground so there's some concern that it could fall on the house where a young couple with a 3 year old daughter and a 3 month old son live. There's also some concern that those huge roots might damage the house foundation and/or the sewer line from the house out to the street. And all that is in addition to the unbelievable amount of "cotton" that thing puts in the air and in our air-conditioners every Spring. So today it came down. A 4 man crew arrived before 9 a.m., but only one of them worked up in the tree and he was up there for over 9 hours with only 2 short breaks. Only one of the guys on the ground wore a hat and sunglasses. None of them used any of the safety items mentioned above; no hard hats, eye protection, gloves, hearing protection, or chaps. The guy in the tree did use a safety rope. See if you find him in the second picture. Incidentally, they had 4 or 5 Stihl chainsaws of different sizes.