Uprooting four trees at same time

[123maxbars]

I went to a fellow sawyer's logging site in Virginia yesterday to look at some white oak. I was able to capture him and his crew take down a white oak tree that got hung up on four others. They took the skidder and pulled it down which caused the tree to uproot all of the trees it was leaning onto. Made for some good video footage I thought.

EPIC TREE UPROOTING, LOGGING IN VIRGINIA - YouTube

 

[frugalangler]

Seems like they could have better controlled the fall line - sure looked like there was a better fall line in a clearing more toward the tug

 

[k0ua]

It looked to me like the skidder line was slack at the moment of the fall. Human error in my opinion

 

[AndrewJohnson]

Good to know! Thanks for sharing.