Share Pics of People Hauling or Towing Something Wrong

[Eagle1]

I fell a long dead giant triple trunk elm next to my pole barn a couple of years ago. Having had an interesting experience with a dead elm I was sure to control every phase of the take down. Everything went well and ALL the pieces and trunks went right where we wanted them. Made sure there was lots of communication and both of us were on the same plan every step of the way. Time and planning won the day for once.

 

[Jstpssng]

Dead elm doesn't hinge well breaking the hinge flush, jumping off the stump or spinning on the stump then falling the opposite direction are common

I believe they just demonstrated that sufficiently in the video.

 

[bcp]

Trees can fall nearly 90 degrees from the direction of the pull. Many don't realize that. The "don't fall here" place should be as close to opposite the pull as possible.

Better yet, don't pull it down, nibble it down, if there is a "don't fall here" place.

Bruce

 

[4570Man]

Trees can fall nearly 90 degrees from the direction of the pull. Many don't realize that. The "don't fall here" place should be as close to opposite the pull as possible.

Better yet, don't pull it down, nibble it down, if there is a "don't fall here" place.

Bruce

Cutting the hinge even half way decent should greatly increase the control to beyond 90 degrees. I’ve pulled hundreds of trees from tall ropes usually set by climbers. When the rope is that high you can put a lot of lean on the tree which is drastically better than a low set rope. And you have to read the tree to start with. If it has a bad lean in an undesirable location it might be a good candidate for chunking down or at least stripping the limbs. Chunking down the whole base is time consuming and the pieces knock deep holes in the ground. We hardly ever did that. The guys in the video are complete clowns. Getting a bucket truck and chunking that one is the only safe plan. That one was too dead to climb imo.

 

[California]

Could have the crane hauler let the truck and trailer free wheel down the hill and avoid the truck waiting to come up? Either way would have been a white knuckle drive. Jon

Looked to me that the road reached a switchback beyond that parked truck. So - no runout space at the bottom of the grade.

I think the jackknifing was accidental but it saved some lives.

 

[Renze]

Dead elm doesn't hinge well breaking the hinge flush, jumping off the stump or spinning on the stump then falling the opposite direction are common

When we cut down a 3 feet diameter oak in front of my parental home when i was a kid, we used two tractors to pull it in the right direction. Due to miscommunication they both started pulling too soon and the rope broke. The tree swung back and everybody held their breath when it sprung back towards our neighbours house... luckily it stayed upright and we got a 2nd chance of doing it right..

 

[RandyT]

.When we cut down a 3 feet diameter oak in front of my parental home when i was a kid, we used two tractors to pull it in the right direction. Due to miscommunication they both started pulling too soon and the rope broke. The tree swung back and everybody held their breath when it sprung back towards our neighbours house... luckily it stayed upright and we got a 2nd chance of doing it right..

I have taken down my fair share of stuff bigger than that over the years. Not fun. Bucked up the log from a large oak I had taken down last summer, and had to cut the chunks from both with my 36" bar.

 

[goeduck]

I hope it was one of their own houses that tree fell on. Lots wrong there, but the guy in the truck must have been looking at his phone. Had he started the last pull earlier it may have reduced the damage by missing some of the house. It looked to me like a clutch. A more consistent pull with an automatic might have done better.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Yea, the guy in truck pulled after the tree fell on the building.

 

[goeduck]

He snugged up early then sat there idle until it was too late. One of a number of dumb things they did.