Tractor /Tree Accident

[Al 2]

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Al

 

[JB13502]

Another lesson here. I'm not sure how to isolate this one video so you may have to scroll down 3 or 4 to find it. Look here: Daily Viral Stories - Funniest and most hilarious moments on Earth that can make anyone laugh | Facebook
Al

Thanks for this post... made me, my wife and son all bust a gut laughing. My favorite was at the end, MAJOR oops!

 

[YLee Kioti]

WOW....who ever was operating that tractor was totally clueless on assessing the size of that tree!!!

after felling so many this summer, have total respect for the weight of even small 6-8 inch diameter branches.

That a was astounding......act of stupidity.

 

[Industrial Toys]

Can anyone post it as a youtube video? I see some guy with a tire on fire.

 

[Ellen B]

Can anyone post it as a youtube video? I see some guy with a tire on fire.

Here ya go:

 

[keljan11]

The last time we cut down a (large 4 ft.dia.) rotten willow tree, we had a 60 ft 3/8" cable tied to a branch half way up, and back to the tractor. Started cutting while pulling back until it came down. Willow was about 40 ft. Tall. Worked perfectly

 

[Industrial Toys]

Thanks! Man, that really sucks! Even an excavator must be extremely careful dealing with trees. My contractor had part of a tree break off and land on his albeit old machine, engine house. He was not happy.

When I was twelve, I was cutting dead elms with my Dad. For one reason or another we had to pull a tree down. Fifty foot tree, thirty foot chain. My Father was too lazy to go back and get another chain, preferring to believe it would just miss the tractor. Brand new tractor, fenders and lights mangled! I was pissed!

 

[Tennsawdust]

Thanks! Man, that really sucks! Even an excavator must be extremely careful dealing with trees. My contractor had part of a tree break off and land on his albeit old machine, engine house. He was not happy.

When I was twelve, I was cutting dead elms with my Dad. For one reason or another we had to pull a tree down. Fifty foot tree, thirty foot chain. My Father was too lazy to go back and get another chain, preferring to believe it would just miss the tractor. Brand new tractor, fenders and lights mangled! I was pissed!

When I was a teenager there was a logger working some mountain land my uncle owned. He was cutting a white oak and wanted it to fall off the ridge into the creek bottom so he decided to encourage it in the right direction by pushing against it with the arm of his log skidder. I'm sure he had done it hundreds of times. He notched the tree and proceeded to cut it. When it broke free the tree did a 180 degree turn, leaped over the log skidder and clobbered his brand new log truck. It then sprung back and put the butt end of the tree square into the radiator of the log skidder. Smoke, steam and parts went everywhere. It was the craziest thing I've ever seen. He threw down his chainsaw, shut off the skidder and stomped off to his pickup. It took him a few weeks to get over his mad spell and come back to pick up the pieces.

Some trees are really spiteful! :laughing:

 

[CobyRupert]

Comedy of errors

1) The tractor is backing up (instead of going forward)
2) as the guy with the chainsaw saws through the hinge (as tree moves in wrong direction)
3) on a tree he didn't notch.

He probably wondering: "Now why didn't that 45 degree backcut work?" :confused3:

 

[thekkfan]

I like where the guy jumps off tractor, pulls his pants up, and looks around like 'glad that ain't MY tractor.'

 

[Industrial Toys]

Years ago, I was cutting the biggest Elm I had cut to date. Brand spanking new Stihl 034 or 036 saw.

Saw got pinched as it started to fall, (not sure how I managed that) saw fell out and the tree landed on it smashing it to freaking pieces!

 

[dieselscout80]

Comedy of errors

1) The tractor is backing up (instead of going forward)

I don't think he was backing up.

I think the tree shoved the tractor back.

 

[Tractorable]

A few months ago I got a brand new Stihl pole saw and proceeded to start trimming a lot of branches on our oak trees. I cut one big branch and when it hit the ground it sprung back up and over my brand new pole saw, knocked it out of my hands, took it to the ground, and bent the shaft all to he11.

 

[Deere Dude]

A few months ago I got a brand new Stihl pole saw and proceeded to start trimming a lot of branches on our oak trees. I cut one big branch and when it hit the ground it sprung back up and over my brand new pole saw, knocked it out of my hands, took it to the ground, and bent the shaft all to he11.

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lol. I got a brand new Stihl pole saw and the very first branch I tackled was half hour I got home with it. Bent it like yours. Not a good day because they are very expensive.

 

[CobyRupert]

A few months ago I got a brand new Stihl pole saw and proceeded to start trimming a lot of branches on our oak trees. I cut one big branch and when it hit the ground it sprung back up and over my brand new pole saw, knocked it out of my hands, took it to the ground, and bent the shaft all to he11.

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That's just their new pole saw model with the OffsetPro(TM) feature.

....sorry...

Did you just bend it back?

Yep, but feel lucky you learned with a pole saw what a lot of people learn in an even harder way when cutting with a chain saw from a ladder.

 

[Thomas]

:confused2::shocked::thumbsup:

 

[SheepdogRD]

We had a dead 40-foot pine on our property. It had died a couple years ago, and it was already leaning slightly. I wanted it down, and wondered if I couldn't help it fall over. I eased up to it on our Kubota 5140, raised the bucket and pushed. It gave a little, so I eased back, lowered the bucket a little, and pushed again. Way up above, the top of the tree broke off backwards and brought down branches with it. I heard it break, but couldn't see through the canopy, and I had no exit, anyway. I hung on. Little branches rained down, and then the top hit. One end landed on the canopy, cracking the fiberglass, bending the front canopy bar, and bending the whole canopy down. The other end put a major crunch in the hood.

I shut the tractor off and sat there for a bit, pondering the stupidity of my actions, and appreciating that I was unhurt.

That was well up the list of the dumbest moves I've made in my life. It could have gone far worse, especially if we hadn't had the canopy.

I'm a lot wiser as I use the tractor, now, and I suspect I'm somewhat easier on it, as well. Ain't skeered, but I'm a whole lot more attentive to possible consequences. I guess I hadn't realized that (1) even a dead tree can kill me, and (2) it's my job to be smarter than the dead tree.

 

[John_Mc]

Sheepgog RD - that's one of the reasons I added FOPS (Falling Object Protection System) to my tractor. I use it in the woods a lot. I don't push trees with it, and keep it a good distance away when I'm felling trees. One day, I was driving down a trail: not bumping in to anything, and it was not windy. A 3" diameter branch picked that time to drop from a nearby tree. It bounced off my roll-bar, and then my shoulder on it's way down. Fortunately, much of the force was dissipated by the roll bar, and what remained was just a glancing blow to my shoulder. Had it not hit the roll bar, there is a good chance I'd be dead or at least had some sever shoulder damage. I decided the forest was talking to me, and I should listen. I made an appointment with a local fabricator who is a genius with "woods hardening" tractors to have him add the FOPS. I also had him add limb risers and a belly pan while he was at it.