Makes me incredibly uncomfortable.

[Luke'sScreenName]

If youve ever felled a tree you know in the short term that is virtually as safe as no cut at all. Also, motion there is very slow in the far fetched case of a fall starting.

Do you have children?! You would do this?

 

[groundcover]

What's wrong with you guys, don't you know about the newest safety wedge ! Kid keeps tree from moving till the back cut is complete ! No more barber chairs !

 

[2LaneCruzer]

Now it all makes sense!

 

[txdon]

What is the orgin of the pic OP?

 

[SPYDERLK]

Do you have children?! You would do this?

Yes. ... Maybe. It would be based on all the particulars -- tree health, lean, wind, etc.

 

[CobyRupert]

If youve ever felled a tree you know in the short term that is virtually as safe as no cut at all. Also, motion there is very slow in the far fetched case of a fall starting.

I agree. The wood looks solid. The kids in more danger of getting hit by a falling limb once he climbs out of the protective notch.

 

[Luke'sScreenName]

What is the orgin of the pic OP?

That's me and my daughter!
See post #16

 

[Aquamoose]

Well Luke, was I right about the top part of the tree already brought down in pieces, rendering the kid-in-the-tree-notch virtually safe?

 

[Luke'sScreenName]

I was joking about that being me.
Even if there is only 6' of tree above the notch it STILL makes me uncomfortable.

 

[s219]

I don't think there's any danger of the tree falling imminently, but it is in very poor taste. No different than taking a picture of the kid laying down behind the wheel of a parked car. Just poor taste. Some people find this sort of thing funny, but to me it's a bit sick.

 

[Luke'sScreenName]

I don't think there's any danger of the tree falling imminently, but it is in very poor taste. No different than taking a picture of the kid laying down behind the wheel of a parked car. Just poor taste. Some people find this sort of thing funny, but to me it's a bit sick.

This!

 

[2ndhalf]

I don't think there's any danger of the tree falling imminently, but it is in very poor taste. No different than taking a picture of the kid laying down behind the wheel of a parked car. Just poor taste. Some people find this sort of thing funny, but to me it's a bit sick.

Agree, I don't find it funny!

 

[SARG]

Up here we call it ... "Thinning of the herd".

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Maybe the tree was cut right above the picture.

 

[SPYDERLK]

I agree. The wood looks solid. The kids in more danger of getting hit by a falling limb once he climbs out of the protective notch.

Just last summer I was working around a big old oak. Beautiful ~ 4' tree. Good height and spread. No dead limbs - fairly calm air. I went off and came back. A big limb had fallen where I had been working. Plenty big to kill me if I took the big part in the wrong place.
,,,,,, Cant dwell on stuf like that or you would never be able to enjoy a tree.

 

[MossRoad]

 

[MossRoad]

 

[SPYDERLK]

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WOW! ... Looks like a cord of chips. How do they make the felling cut? Big cross cut saw?

 

[CobyRupert]

Do the naysayers realize how much wood is still holding up that vertical tree? (Which assuming no wind and even branch distribution has very little horizontal forces on it.)
There's almost more 6"x6" posts in that trunk than hold up my pole barn (in the wind).
I'd bet you could hook a cable on that tree and you'd probably pull the roots out of the ground before the kid gets punched.