At Home In The Woods

[clemsonfor]

back on the tree cutting thing. i watched the latest episode of Moutain men off my DVR from sunday. The guy in montana that supposedly heats his home and shed with wood was cutting a leaning tree. he made his back cut first put a wedge in then cut the felling notch to fell the tree...somehow not binding his saw bar up?? This is a guy that supposedly knows what he is doing and heats with wood? thats a good way to get a tree to fall on you and or your saw destroyed???

 

[Larro Darro]

back on the tree cutting thing. i watched the latest episode of Moutain men off my DVR from sunday. The guy in montana that supposedly heats his home and shed with wood was cutting a leaning tree. he made his back cut first put a wedge in then cut the felling notch to fell the tree...somehow not binding his saw bar up?? This is a guy that supposedly knows what he is doing and heats with wood? thats a good way to get a tree to fall on you and or your saw destroyed???

The biggest reality in reality TV is the real savings over a scripted show. There are so many of them because they are so cheap to make.

Larro

 

[Shutesbury]

That tree felling really bugged me, too, since you can now expect others to copy him. I suspect that's why the chain came off the bar, during the face cut, too. He was pinching it already with his 'wedge first' strategy. The only rationale I could imagine for him doing it in reverse order was so he didn't have to cut around his wedge on the back side, since it was only about a 10-11 inch tree... but there were alternatives too. Makes you wonder how Tom has survived all these years!! :-/

 

[Obed]

Eddie Walker gave me some real good advice on how to take down a tree with a backhoe in this thread Best Way to Remove This Tree . I followed his advice almost exactly when I removed the maple tree last week. His technique worked wonderfully.

 

[clemsonfor]

That tree felling really bugged me, too, since you can now expect others to copy him. I suspect that's why the chain came off the bar, during the face cut, too. He was pinching it already with his 'wedge first' strategy. The only rationale I could imagine for him doing it in reverse order was so he didn't have to cut around his wedge on the back side, since it was only about a 10-11 inch tree... but there were alternatives too. Makes you wonder how Tom has survived all these years!! :-/

I was thinking the same thing, his wedge may have been to long for cutting that small diameter tree taht was leaning the wrong way.


I like how they made it out like it was a long way back in the woods to find a dead tree. I could not understand why he would not drive his truck to the tree, then on the way back when he fell down the hill and they looked back up slope at one point when he was down hill you could see the branches from the felled tree and the base of the hill then anouther 75 feet further and his shed was there, i bet it wasent 80 yards but they made it out to be a long way.

I like Eustace casue he is near my region, i like appalachia and like his place. But the fake scripted show thing gets me now. The first season they used chain saws all the time to cut wood. Then the next season there cutting trees with hand saws, the spprentice and he and preston and useing hand tools all the time and talking about chainsaw would be faster. I am yelling at the TV saying well in the first season you yelled at your "apprentice" for leaving your 6 saws out in the rain!!

And i think those apprinteces pay to be there!!!


And to cheap to make reality TV...my wife just told me what Teressa makes on New Jersy Housewives. $700,000 a season and shes not the only person on the show!!! This was releveant because we were talking about if she goes to prison on the fraud and tax charges she will be fired from the show..


sorry for the derail.

 

[clemsonfor]

That tree felling really bugged me, too, since you can now expect others to copy him. I suspect that's why the chain came off the bar, during the face cut, too. He was pinching it already with his 'wedge first' strategy. The only rationale I could imagine for him doing it in reverse order was so he didn't have to cut around his wedge on the back side, since it was only about a 10-11 inch tree... but there were alternatives too. Makes you wonder how Tom has survived all these years!! :-/

I was thinking the same thing, his wedge may have been to long for cutting that small diameter tree taht was leaning the wrong way.


I like how they made it out like it was a long way back in the woods to find a dead tree. I could not understand why he would not drive his truck to the tree, then on the way back when he fell down the hill and they looked back up slope at one point when he was down hill you could see the branches from the felled tree and the base of the hill then anouther 75 feet further and his shed was there, i bet it wasent 80 yards but they made it out to be a long way.

I like Eustace casue he is near my region, i like appalachia and like his place. But the fake scripted show thing gets me now. The first season they used chain saws all the time to cut wood. Then the next season there cutting trees with hand saws, the spprentice and he and preston and useing hand tools all the time and talking about chainsaw would be faster. I am yelling at the TV saying well in the first season you yelled at your "apprentice" for leaving your 6 saws out in the rain!!

And i think those apprinteces pay to be there!!!


And to cheap to make reality TV...my wife just told me what Teressa makes on New Jersy Housewives. $700,000 a season and shes not the only person on the show!!! This was releveant because we were talking about if she goes to prison on the fraud and tax charges she will be fired from the show..


sorry for the derail.

 

[Coyote machine]

Reality TV; where there is none.

Felling trees with a backhoe is NOT safe, regardless of method. Ask any insurance company. Felling trees is a dangerous job under the best of circumstances; doing it cowboy style heightens the risk considerably.
New saying to cover this type of wrong headedness: Fools often tread where Eagles fear to fly.

 

[Otto Syracuse]

I love Tom, but the tree thing was silly. He probably has 3 years worth of wood cut and split on the other side of the house.

Of all the characters on the show, I'd like to shadow Marty in Alaska. He looks like he has seen it all and then some.

 

[batwing]

I am more impressed with that hydro generator putting out as much electricity as it does and using wood to run the truck. I agree on Marty.
Ron

 

[clemsonfor]

the generator thing i think is over exadurated. wood truck is real.

Marty is real, i found an article about him in a 2010 field and stream when i went through my old mags. the author says he is a smoke jumper in fire season and can bench 35o lbs!!