When things go wrong in the woodlot

[ArlyA]

Never lock the chain?? I was trained to lock it as soon as cutting was done. I'm glad to be no where near this operation.

 

[MossRoad]

How do you spell stupid?

Think about that real hard.....


:laughing:

 

[sd455dan]

Had the chaps, the helmet and a big saw....left brain at home. Like watching a car crash, had to watch it till the end.

Sure shows how handy a tractor and a strap would have been to not cut down and hang up every tree in sight... On the positive side Saw sounds decently tuned :laughing:

 

[Einthewoods]

Sure shows how handy a tractor and a strap would have been to not cut down and hang up every tree in sight... On the positive side Saw sounds decently tuned :laughing:

I didn't listen to the audio and was just watching, but the first thing that cam to my mind was 'I sure hope that is his property and not him doing someone a favor or for a customer '. :laughing:

So many other ways to get out of that situation. Tractor would be great, but even a come along, pickup truck, etc. Wow.

 

[MossRoad]

About 17 minutes into it, he starts doing what I have had to do the few times I've had a tree hang in another tree.... start taking small pieces off the bottom from the back side, so that the butt keeps walking towards the tree its leaning against as you remove pieces. Eventually, you'll get to a point where the leaning tree will have more weight leaning away from the tree it's hung up in, and then it'll fall back in the direction it originally came from. If he'd have done that on the first leaner, he wouldn't have had to cut out all those other trees, or have had them all sprung against each other like that.

If he had a cable and a tractor or truck or come along that would have worked better and probably been safer than having all those spring poles in there. You never know when one will let loose and whip you to death.

 

[ericm979]

Before I stopped watching he said he had rope and a comealong in the truck. I guess he just didn't want to go get them.

Probably would have taken less time to use that on the first tree.

 

[mapper]

I would not have come anywhere close to those spring poles with a saw! I would have been getting that come along.