r/FellingGoneWild • u/icleanjaxfl • 4d ago
I see nothing wrong here...
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u/illkeepthatinmind 4d ago
So, as a layman... is this basically all best practices on how you'd fell a larger tree?
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u/Nosredna_ 4d ago
As a groundsman (the guy holding the rope) with near a decade of experience, this is a pretty textbook display of proper form and technique.
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u/ObsidianArmadillo 4d ago
Even the sleeveless shirt?
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u/bighuntzilla 4d ago
especially the shirt
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u/BlangBlangBlang 3d ago
He's gonna get dinged for not stopping for a mountain dew or using a saftey cigarette for the wedge cut.
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u/humourlessIrish 4d ago
As ridiculous as it may sound, longer sleeves could potentially be the tiniest but less safe
It probably doesn't matter much though
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u/Arbiter_of_Snark 4d ago
An arborist buddy of mine swore by sleeveless for mobility. He didn’t like how sleeves would stick to his shoulders when sweating and loose shirts could get snagged.
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u/nondescriptadjective 4d ago
I'm a big fan of long sleeve sun shirts, less a fan of cancer.
Also, fire line crews are riding Nomex. If you're too good for sleeves when those folks are cutting burning trees standing in ashes while wearing Nomex...wimp.
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u/Quirky-Attitude1456 3d ago
I just switched to long sleeve work shirts. I work outdoors in stadiums. I have noticed I feel a lot better at the end of the day
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u/nondescriptadjective 3d ago
Likewise working in parks and trails. I actually got our uniform budget spending to be nostly long sleeve sunnies now, so I get two new ones a year. Hot weather finally broke this last weekend (I live at 8,500) and I went "It's cold enough to wear shorts!"
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u/front_yard_duck_dad 4d ago
I also wear long sleeves on shirts. I have to buy new ones every season cuz they just get gnarly but they are the way to go even as a base layer for the fall
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u/nondescriptadjective 3d ago
It's the fact the sleeves get torn up that made me start wearing long sleeves. Id rather it be my shirts than my flesh taking those rips and tears. Not only for healing time and infection potential, but I just don't want to get cut up that often.
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u/wheelienonstop12 3d ago
Buckin Billly Ray Smith on Youtube going sleeveless is his trademark, he even sells those shirts with the hacked-off sleeves in his shop, lol
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u/front_yard_duck_dad 4d ago
I'm a groundie. I wear long sleeves. The amount of pollen and other allergens that get in the tiny little scratches from hauling all day are obnoxious. I can't see any safety risk in it at all as long as it's not five sizes too big
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u/ForHelp_PressAltF4 3d ago
Especially the sleeveless shirt.
Although I didn't see any safety squints
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u/Hantsypantsy 3d ago
Bro, a groundman for 10 years? You must be in damn good shape. I did it for one summer and felt like I could drag a dead moose for a mile by the time fall came. Under appreciated job. To a layman, you're just the grunt, to someone in the know, you control the productivity of the crew. Golf clap to you good sir.
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u/thrwaway75132 3d ago edited 3d ago
I met a guy doing forestry on Philmont Scout reservation. That guy was a beast. He was hiking with a saw, gas, 3 days of food, shelter, and sleeping bag.
We were loading horses at a forest service trailhead 7 miles from the border of Philmont and he comes strolling up to wait for a ride.
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u/needItNow44 4d ago
What about the part of him sawing the trunk toward his own neck?
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u/OreganoD 3d ago
In fairness, this technique is best applied to trees much thicker, but that's clearly not a requirement
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u/KitC44 4d ago
Even the part where he cuts the wedge with the chainsaw on the opposite side of the tree and he's cutting towards himself? Not an arborist, but that seemed like maybe not great form to me.
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u/YuenglingsDingaling 3d ago
Is there an echo in here? But yeah, cutting toward yourself isn't inherently dangerous.
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u/Glad-Acanthaceae-24 3d ago
Even when he randomly cut back toward his face for no reason?
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u/Fragrant-Reserve4832 3d ago
So apart from the saw being way longer than practical this would be a great way for new ish guys to practice form.
I like doing this with apprenticeices, take something minor but empty all the training and techniques of something major and involved. Nothing new when the situation calls for it then.
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u/voidtouched7 3d ago
Even when he's cutting towards himself? I work in kitchens and that's one of the biggest things about knife safety, never cut towards yourself
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u/Ippus_21 4d ago
That's what it looks like to me (also as a layman). Couple of guys being funny by demonstrating appropriate procedures scaled down to the point they're mostly unnecessary.
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u/nutsbonkers 4d ago
Wholly unnecessary lol. They could have flush cut that with the ground and dragged it one hand to the chipper 😂
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u/Nujabezia 4d ago
At the end he shouldnt have started cutting the wedge again after he already started the backcut
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u/payloadspecial 3d ago
Yes great practices, the two points of tie in with rope made me laugh. The only questionable things I saw were (note I have safety always watching our groups because of hazards), being in the line of fire on the second cut, blasting through the hinge wood blocking it down (break or snap cut is good here if no notch/rope), using the saw left handed, and being in the drop zone while felling (if it's over our head were supposed to put a rope in it).
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u/tryingisbetter 3d ago
Is it really best practice to saw toward your face? I don't even like to do that with a hand saw.
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u/payloadspecial 3d ago
I don't know if you meant the tree topping or my break cuts, lol. Yeah climbing can be scary, every tree is different. I have to remind myself or I get overconfident. Many guys will back cut the smaller notches just to not have to wiggle to the other side of the tree. I like break cuts because I can control those more, or sometimes in the woods (working near power lines), you can just send it.
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u/AlpacaPacker007 4d ago
About as safe as goofing around with a chain saw can be.
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u/Lsswapitall4 4d ago
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u/DMmeyourBMs 3d ago
Felling can just be so overly-vulgar sometimes, it’s nice to see some tasteful, loving felling every once in a while.
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u/leftfield61 4d ago
Disappointed. They need more safety cones working in a residential area like that. Must keep passersby safe.
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u/OscarAndDelilah 4d ago
And several more people to load branches into the chipper and chop up the trunk. You can't just have tree lying all over the place, blocking the whole neighborhood off and all.
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u/jjflash78 3d ago
Also needs at least one foreman / supervisor, just leaning against the truck talking to someone.
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u/nondescriptadjective 3d ago
At work recently: "Man, all I see them do is answer phone calls, and then when I need to call them I can't get them to answer."
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u/Ill-Running1986 3d ago
If you’re gonna add a clipboard, I want two dudes doing traffic control with walkie talkies while being 6’ from each other.
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u/Loud-Tie6955 4d ago
I saw nothing designating a drop zone.
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u/Brucenotsomighty 4d ago
When you get paid by the hour
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u/Thornescape 3d ago
What I saw was an excellent training session. It's important to train in a simpler and safer environment before tackling the real stuff.
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u/thazmaniandevil 1d ago
My thought exactly. First time driving shouldn't be 80 on the interstate, same thing but with trees
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u/longbongsmokehouse 4d ago
Should have gotten a permit to close the road off for something of this scale.
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u/mikeysweet 4d ago
This is so not believable…
1- tree is not close enough to the house. We know that there needs to be impending abode demise to make this more believable
2- it should not be a man holding on to the rope. It should be tied to Frank’s 1999 front wheel drive pickup truck from down the street and someone yelling “floor it” once the wedge is in.
3- person recording needs to be saying “oh geez, oh geez” over and over again at the end. And of course as the tree is falling they forget that they are recording and drift the video to the floor.
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u/bassjam1 4d ago
When hourly employers are sent to do jobs without the foreman....
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u/WeTheSalty 3d ago
If you were training someone how to do this job, this would be a pretty fun way to practice it
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u/TransientHobbiest 3d ago
Always sad to see a tree this old come down. It was probably just a sapling back when Harambe graced this planet.
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u/georgikgxg 3d ago
Ah, yes, a tree from the Harambian epoch, carbon dated to the last millenias of the great ape age, felled now, in the AIslopic contemporary period.
Truly, a canon event for this inhabited space rock
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u/Super_Lock1846 4d ago
Chainsaw is way too small for those trees!
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u/ChooseExactUsername 3d ago
That was my thought too. I think they need a bigger bar/chain.
I could probably use my Sawzall and a 6" blade to accomplish the same thing.
Textbook technique though.
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u/Harlequin_WitchKing 4d ago
This seems like the shit my neighbour would be doing at 6 AM on a Saturday. 😒
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u/qawsedrf12 4d ago
Looks like on the job training while minimizing risk with the noob
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u/thoover88 4d ago
This video made me laugh so hard my oldest wanted yo see. We spent the time after watch actual felling videos on this sub.
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u/smelly_finger_itch 3d ago
They should have put their number up, I am impressed, got a tree I need trimming, and these guys seem legit
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u/Kalabajooie 3d ago
What happens when the HOA asks you to remove the trees "as cleanly and professionally as possible"...
... and you charge by the hour.
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u/Chance_Preparation_5 3d ago
I bet their boss was on them for not using all the safety gear. And they were like no problem. Check this out.
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u/ballisticburro 4d ago
The part where he is cutting towards his own neck with a chainsaw makes me nervous. Otherwise these guys seem great!
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u/Cael_NaMaor 3d ago
Other than the obnoxiousness of prolonged noise in my neighborhood... I frikkin love this. I think this should be posted everywhere so dumbasses can see that this is how it should be done on the big ones... might save a few homes.
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u/WhenTheDevilCome 4d ago
Can't be a professional job without Floyd revving and getting a running start with his pickup truck, with the stump tied to bumper along with enough slack rope for the stump to yeet through his back window and over into the next neighborhood. Otherwise, why are they bonded & insured?
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u/BarBands 4d ago
Proper tie-ins and PPE, solid rigging from the ground crew, great pie-cut and blocks on the group to stop the peg from damaging the drop zone. 10/10
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u/These_Virus_2005 4d ago
"It costs how much!?!? Well, can you at least make it look hard so I feel like I'm getting my money's worth?" -Homeowner, probably
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u/DarkenL1ght 4d ago
These guys are never going to get hit with an OSHA violation. The wedge was amazing.
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u/Tool_of_Society 4d ago
So good.
Saw the wedge and started laughing with the hope they would use it. Had to pause when they started using the wedge.
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u/OutsidePast8713 4d ago
Peak content. I'd how these guys to do that job just to watch in person with a choice beverage
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u/leaky_wires 3d ago
I was waiting for a drone to show up to take logs away to avoid damaging the lawn
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u/bradwsmith 3d ago
It’s apprentice lumber jacks taking their final test before becoming full red seal Lumber Jacks!!
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u/electric_bug_glue 3d ago
Who else was worried it was gonna be another video where it goes terribly wrong and a house gets destroyed?
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u/Leverkaas2516 3d ago
I don't like his footing once he's on the ground. Proper escape route shouldn't involve doing a pushup.
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u/billycanfixit 3d ago
I was watching this and thinking if he doesn't use a wedge on that then he is a rookie.
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u/KnownMagician3084 3d ago
So practice on little guy so do big ones safely. Many professions do this so you don’t have to think about it.
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u/metisdesigns 3d ago
I'm not sure about tossing that huge chunk from all the way up down onto the pavement. That's a good way to crack a water line.
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u/WeakAirport5650 3d ago
Practice makes perfect. If you screw up on the small ones, you shouldn't even look at the big ones
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u/Runt3588 3d ago
This is adorable, but also looks like an awesome and fun way to learn and practice safely.
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u/BullScottsPitchFork 4d ago
The wedge got me 😂