From the homeowner: AWESOME JOB! Great crew. Knew it was going to be a tough job. Believe only August with his crew and equipment could handle it. THANK YOU!!
Great words of wisdom from an experienced climber and tree professional! - You better not rush it even through you want to, even though you are behind schedule!! So smart! Because if you rush it and a branch goes through a roof or breaks a fence badly then you have to discuss it with the neighbor, and fix it and pay for it in $$ and time! Your work is a great standard to watch and learn from!! Liked !! Subbed !!
No such thing as behind schedule when in tree work especially off the ground JUST ON TIME if all ends successfully 😊🌅 that's why I stopped working for BOTTOM LINE BOSS'S " Bottom Line is SAFETY " & Great job guys spiderwoodman@gmail.com
Dang August! Another really great video! 😎👍❤️🌲 And when you were making those tie offs and cuts, then you asked "UA-cam" if it made sense..... it made perfect sense to me. 👍 Thank you so much for putting in all that work after all the work had been done so you could get this video posted up. Absolutely love it! An amazing job well done to you and your crew!!! Thank you all again and keep yourselves safe! Randy
WOW....!!!!! You weren't kidding about this inverted Octipus tree....You guys did a great job for such a messed up tree.... And Yes August.....Making Perfect Sense on this end.....but of course,,, I would understand a whole lot better than a homeowner since I used to Climb ...Making eveerything butt heavy....Awsome....Love that GRCS
August,,,?? If you dont mind me asking......What do you call your climbing rig setup that you are tied in with.....Ive never seen that before....and im sure that you know that with my age came old school climbing technics like for instance.....I always climbed with the Blakes Hitch....and before that....the ole' Dinosaur Tautline hitch.....lmmfao....I never got the chance for anyone to teach me the new advanced tree climbing technics.....So everything took way longer to do thanks....Steve
It seems to me that August is a great guy as well as an awesome boss / good guy to work for. Fortunately, my supervisor is an awesome / very intelligent guy to work with / learn from. Even after my 18 yrs in this industry, I still learn from him every day. Always have a teachable spirit.
Absolutely incredible job, August and crew! Thank you for taking us along for the ride. It must have felt great to be rolling out with that ugly thing behind you all. Amazing editing job as always!
Great video. It's great to see a team go guys working together in the common goal of bringing the tree down safely. Back in my day of climbing we didn't have cameras and such. We just tied knots, the clove hitch, the monkey's fist and so on. Love seeing all the new gear.
"How to hook them up" - That's why I love Gerald Beranek video sets. He goes through all that. Hope he's well. I love his High Climbers and Timber Faller coffee table book as well.
Loved your double perspective. See how it was rigged and then watch it fall. They didn't always go where I expected them to. Love the videos and great job.
That is the hardest tree I have ever seen taken down. I would call it the "D I don't adore u" tree. It looks like the devil's pitchfork. Tenador del Diablo. It just throws you curve after curve and you have a postage stamp for a drop zone. One thing that is not mentioned here is how much clean up there was after this. It is saw dust all over everything and you have a neighbor dog barking at your every move. You are the best!!! The whole crew!!
Yes.. It makes sense... Ive been watching your videos for a long time... You have a way of talking about things that really connects with me as a climber. Im always checkin in just to see what new techniques i can try out. Thanks for awesome well explained videos man.
All your videos are superb, but I particularly enjoy the ones where you're doing the climbing. I'm only a few years in myself and mainly do forestry tree work, but the information I've gleaned from your treasure trove of content has been invaluable. Thanks for all you do to enlighten the community.
Happy Easter August and Crew. Watching from Melbourne Australia. Really enjoy the videos. Thanks for the effort of shooting and sharing your knowledge.
excellent work...I love these kinds of giant puzzles...flopping trees or blasting out large leads is so fun and a definite adrenaline rush....but there is just something so gratifying about solving a puzzle like this...excellent video stay safe stay healthy
Thanks for the videos man! Learning lots from them. Appreciate you taking the time to share your knowledge it helps out a lot. You guys have a solid crew looks like a lot of fun
Part 2 was great - nothing like doing it the 'old fashion' way. Before bucket trucks but with better rigging systems. Thank you for the video - Happy Easter to the crew / family and you. Take care 'Spin'.
"Is this making sense, UA-cam, or is it just a mess?" 8:10 about. It's BOTH! I've only seen this kind of confused growth in big boxwood hedges. GIANT KUDOS for you skill and experience in being able to SAFELY work your way through this. Second time I watched this, and I am IMPRESSED again. Suggestion: The Lable is "Tree Fights Back". Better if "Octupus Tree part 2: Tree Fights Back". Took me 20 minutes to find it, but I got to see Jason's birth video along the way. Your wife is an amazing woman to share this with us. I'd only read about the bath birthing before. Thank you for sharing that awesome event. I ALWAYS learn something new.
I've been waiting for Grandpa Hunicke to be on the website! Need some of that wisdom on the East Coast! 😆😛 Great job all around, shows your humility to show your accidents (limb to the hat), and helps everyone else learn and avoid. Happy Easter to the fam and the crew!
Tangled up mess. Actual limbs growing into other leads and limbs. Confined space. Only thing that could of made it worse is being dead and vines lol. Great Job.
Thank you. People are lucky to have men like you guys around. What a crazy tree. Give more advice on what NOT to do to a tree for the sake of "saving money". I think in pt. one you mentioned not topping a tree because it continues to grow but not in a safe way.
Communication is vitally important, a symbiosis, and everyone goes home at the end of the day. Meanwhile the work is a hell of a lot of fun, in a very controlled way!
I've never seen a big tree that huge I wish there was a part 4 I respect that you enjoy this I do yard work I pick up pine needles and do pick up tree branches
Happy Easter! Love the longer videos August. I got a Milwaukee super hole hawg and drill driver for my grcs. My ground guys got kinda upset after I got it. 😂😂 they wanted to know why they did all that cranking for years...
Well,you, & your crew did away with them trees, some here said CRANE but when you look around, there is nowhere to put one ! Great job, cheers 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Great job with the tree and the video. I have to say, I love the music you choose. You had one with classical music in the sunset, with drifting drone footage, and it was as awesome as the jam in the one.
You do a great job making entertaining videos. One reason I like them is because they are not all the same. Some are a little instructional, some upbeat with music, some joking with the crew and all good! I like that new shirt too. 👍
Thank you I enjoyed the video. What would you recommend for good all around rigging equipment? I have a small rigging kit with the mini porta wrap a 1/2 rope and the Omni 1.1 pully with a nylon strap. I was looking to upgrade my equipment. I don’t do a lot of work so I don’t want a ton of stuff but I’d like good all around equipment I can make work in many situations.
I work with industrial piping and we specialize in puzzling pipe together. Industrial plants especially mines are so cramped for space that a lot of the time things have to be installed in order so that everything fits and are possible. Mechanics and new engines take the cake though these days because once you could sit on a fender with your feet and legs in an engine bay but not anymore.
If I have had so much as a throw line in a tree I have at least a recreational helmet on. Countless times at the end of the day I have been coiling rope or whatever, and a twig or small branch or chunk of bark has bull's eyed me right in the head. My first experience, though, was while in the Army. The Sergeant had said we didn't need to keep our helmets on, but I was in too much of a hurry to stop and take mine off. It may have saved my life. We loaded my truck and everyone else left for the work site because we were short handed, and left me to chain down the load by myself. I hooked the chain binder into the lowest link available and used all my strength to snap up the handle. While securing the safety chain the handle slipped past my thumb. The tip of the chain binder handle struck me on top of the helmet and drove my head down several inches. I've been a fanatic about safety gear ever since. I'm glad Adam was okay!
Had a similar job last week , scots pines, 7 in a row above an indoor swimming pool and antique street lamps, fences, phone lines, electric cable and a main road. Branches tangles , grown into others and one of the trees tops had snapped and wS being held up precariously by the branches underneath that had also either snapped or cracked and all were hard forward leaning. Nowhere to speed line, and only a narrow area between the roof and a fence ...in the end the best way to do it was use scaffolding boards to board out the pool room roof and rig it so every tree could be rigged to be lowered from the most central tree , gently lower onto the roof and then cut it there before taking it down the narrow path to the chipper.. Nightmare, boss looked and said 2 days , didn't take the technical aspect od see the damage or snspped top threaded thru and resting on broken branches of other trees.. Took us four days of painstakingly dismantling them and lowering them all into a few metre square drop zone..got amazing photos from that one
Something I noticed more this time I watched it was that when you cut off a limb on one side of the tree it would swing all the way around the tree and try to hit you in your butt. Mean vengeful tree!!!
That was a great watch for an Easter Sunday watch! Such amazing teamwork as always. That shirt is going to sell like hot cakes guaranteed! Have a wonderful Easter
From the homeowner: AWESOME JOB! Great crew. Knew it was going to be a tough job. Believe only August with his crew and equipment could handle it. THANK YOU!!
True sign of a professional, no drama - just getting the job done.
I like the way you praise your ground crew and give them feed back. It makes one feel good and one can enjoy their day at work.
Management 101: Make your people feel good when they do good.
Yip , everything cool and calm great to see and probably a good happy crew👍👍
The very first time I saw a climber I knew I wasn’t going to be a climber.
Great words of wisdom from an experienced climber and tree professional! - You better not rush it even through you want to, even though you are behind schedule!! So smart! Because if you rush it and a branch goes through a roof or breaks a fence badly then you have to discuss it with the neighbor, and fix it and pay for it in $$ and time! Your work is a great standard to watch and learn from!! Liked !! Subbed !!
"It never takes too long to do it right, because doing it right is the exact time it takes to do it." Samurai Joe in Podcast Style 1
No such thing as behind schedule when in tree work
especially off the ground JUST ON TIME if all ends successfully 😊🌅 that's why I stopped working for BOTTOM LINE BOSS'S
" Bottom Line is SAFETY "
& Great job guys spiderwoodman@gmail.com
Always good seeing August in a tree. Great job by all.
Dang August! Another really great video! 😎👍❤️🌲
And when you were making those tie offs and cuts, then you
asked "UA-cam" if it made sense..... it made perfect sense to me. 👍
Thank you so much for putting in all that work after all the work had
been done so you could get this video posted up.
Absolutely love it! An amazing job well done to you and your crew!!!
Thank you all again and keep yourselves safe!
Randy
WOW....!!!!! You weren't kidding about this inverted Octipus tree....You guys did a great job for such a messed up tree....
And Yes August.....Making Perfect Sense on this end.....but of course,,, I would understand a whole lot better than a homeowner since I used to Climb ...Making eveerything butt heavy....Awsome....Love that GRCS
August,,,?? If you dont mind me asking......What do you call your climbing rig setup that you are tied in with.....Ive never seen that before....and im sure that you know that with my age came old school climbing technics like for instance.....I always climbed with the Blakes Hitch....and before that....the ole' Dinosaur Tautline hitch.....lmmfao....I never got the chance for anyone to teach me the new advanced tree climbing technics.....So everything took way longer to do
thanks....Steve
It seems to me that August is a great guy as well as an awesome boss / good guy to work for. Fortunately, my supervisor is an awesome / very intelligent guy to work with / learn from. Even after my 18 yrs in this industry, I still learn from him every day. Always have a teachable spirit.
Absolutely incredible job, August and crew! Thank you for taking us along for the ride. It must have felt great to be rolling out with that ugly thing behind you all. Amazing editing job as always!
Great video. It's great to see a team go guys working together in the common goal of bringing the tree down safely. Back in my day of climbing we didn't have cameras and such. We just tied knots, the clove hitch, the monkey's fist and so on. Love seeing all the new gear.
"How to hook them up" - That's why I love Gerald Beranek video sets. He goes through all that. Hope he's well. I love his High Climbers and Timber Faller coffee table book as well.
This one time at tree trimming camp...🤪. Thank you for all the hard work. Thanks for the teaching.
Loved your double perspective. See how it was rigged and then watch it fall. They didn't always go where I expected them to. Love the videos and great job.
Happy Easter to you all! What a fine tuned team to watch. Thanks loads for all you do, August. Stay Safe Team. 👏🏻👊🏻👍😁
Enjoyed that All nighter edit ! Hell of a lot of work all round
That is the hardest tree I have ever seen taken down. I would call it the "D I don't adore u" tree. It looks like the devil's pitchfork. Tenador del Diablo. It just throws you curve after curve and you have a postage stamp for a drop zone. One thing that is not mentioned here is how much clean up there was after this. It is saw dust all over everything and you have a neighbor dog barking at your every move. You are the best!!! The whole crew!!
Had to laugh at you for your play by play, what else can you do, but get her done!
Such a great learning experience to view on YT. Such a tangle man. You guys all did great.
Love the long format of this one. Awesome tree, but a nightmare to remove.
Not a nightmare / just one that needs planning & PATIENCE 😊🌅 spiderwoodman@gmail.com
I really appreciate you and your crew and especially all the great content you provide us. Thank you sir.
😉👍It makes since....but its "Stihl" a mess....as the dog barks & rudely interrupts 😂
HAPPY EASTER
Your videos are so good !! Cant wait to be back to work. Thank you for sharing this, i'm sure it helps a lot of treepeole out here. Happy easter
Yes.. It makes sense... Ive been watching your videos for a long time... You have a way of talking about things that really connects with me as a climber. Im always checkin in just to see what new techniques i can try out. Thanks for awesome well explained videos man.
Yeah, more just like this. Thanks again. I love these videos.
All your videos are superb, but I particularly enjoy the ones where you're doing the climbing. I'm only a few years in myself and mainly do forestry tree work, but the information I've gleaned from your treasure trove of content has been invaluable. Thanks for all you do to enlighten the community.
Love how you dropped that chunk at 30:30, and it landed aligned with the others.
Happy Easter August and Crew. Watching from Melbourne Australia. Really enjoy the videos. Thanks for the effort of shooting and sharing your knowledge.
excellent work...I love these kinds of giant puzzles...flopping trees or blasting out large leads is so fun and a definite adrenaline rush....but there is just something so gratifying about solving a puzzle like this...excellent video
stay safe stay healthy
Thanks for the videos man! Learning lots from them. Appreciate you taking the time to share your knowledge it helps out a lot. You guys have a solid crew looks like a lot of fun
This was amazing! Some of the most complicated tree work I've ever seen. Kudos August and team!
You and your crew,are the best I have ever seen!
After watching your vids for 2 months now, I had to subscribe out or respect :-D
10:20 I knew there was a name for that technique! Thanks for the clarification. Happy Easter to you and your family. Be well
Part 2 was great - nothing like doing it the 'old fashion' way. Before bucket trucks but with better rigging systems. Thank you for the video - Happy Easter to the crew / family and you. Take care 'Spin'.
"Is this making sense, UA-cam, or is it just a mess?" 8:10 about.
It's BOTH! I've only seen this kind of confused growth in big boxwood hedges. GIANT KUDOS for you skill and experience in being able to SAFELY work your way through this. Second time I watched this, and I am IMPRESSED again. Suggestion: The Lable is "Tree Fights Back". Better if "Octupus Tree part 2: Tree Fights Back". Took me 20 minutes to find it, but I got to see Jason's birth video along the way. Your wife is an amazing woman to share this with us. I'd only read about the bath birthing before. Thank you for sharing that awesome event. I ALWAYS learn something new.
Ok, I’ll change the title.
The best. You could never make enough of these.
It's making sense to me. Slow and easy, too much underneath. You guys are awesome.
I've been waiting for Grandpa Hunicke to be on the website! Need some of that wisdom on the East Coast! 😆😛 Great job all around, shows your humility to show your accidents (limb to the hat), and helps everyone else learn and avoid. Happy Easter to the fam and the crew!
That tree reminded me of a dead spider.
The homeowner is going to be nice and warm for a couple of years with all that wood.
Wow gaint squid attacks inverted octopus those limbs were longer than the backyard .happy Easter.
Tangled up mess. Actual limbs growing into other leads and limbs. Confined space. Only thing that could of made it worse is being dead and vines lol. Great Job.
Happy Easter. Great video and def was better than the first. Have a blessed day much love to you and your family. 🌲❤️
Hey. When the homeowner gives a stellar review: enough said.
Thank You August,
Great rigging demos.
You men have the right tools,and know how to use them!And a very cool boss!
Octopus is a good name for this tree.
Systematically dismantling is an absolute art form which U gentlemen displayed beautifully🍀🤙🌲👊
I loved this! Beautiful work - great team! 👍👍
4:04 I thought for sure that the fence and shed were goners. Nice work.
What a challenge , tangled cedar and four peoples back yards to try not to ruin ,
Great job
Nice editing, August. Thanks again for your great videos......from a “wannabe”.
Very very enjoyable video 👌 happy Easter 🎉
The tree of a thousand cuts. And no, none of it made sense. But that’s why I’m not an arborist and you are! Love your videos August!
Great to watch. Great skill , work ethic, and camaraderie. Teamwork makes the dream work 🤘🏻
Yes, it's making sense. And I have a whole new appreciation for "Monkey Beaver!"
Awesome video!! Thanks for sharing!!
Wow first 😎😎😎😎😎. Looking forward to the ride🤩
16:00 was sweet
Thank you. People are lucky to have men like you guys around. What a crazy tree. Give more advice on what NOT to do to a tree for the sake of "saving money". I think in pt. one you mentioned not topping a tree because it continues to grow but not in a safe way.
Great job as always… but I have to say, the pace of this one left me a little…. ‘Cranky’ 😆🤪
Safety first wins the day. 👏
Communication is vitally important, a symbiosis, and everyone goes home at the end of the day. Meanwhile the work is a hell of a lot of fun, in a very controlled way!
I wish I weren't afraid of heights. I start shittin my pants, when my barber jacks the chair up.
I've never seen a big tree that huge I wish there was a part 4 I respect that you enjoy this I do yard work I pick up pine needles and do pick up tree branches
You all must have been sick of that tree by the time you were done. Great work.
Happy Easter! Love the longer videos August. I got a Milwaukee super hole hawg and drill driver for my grcs. My ground guys got kinda upset after I got it. 😂😂 they wanted to know why they did all that cranking for years...
A seriously impressive piece of work.
You guys are so good at what you do with really big balls even with good ropes!
Man that was a tangled mess! I had to do some fancy rigging like that recently, what a mess🤣
Yeah that cedar look to be one big pain in the butt. Great job guys! Always gotta see the positive in everything. :)
Well,you, & your crew did away with them trees, some here said CRANE but when you look around, there is nowhere to put one ! Great job, cheers 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Great job with the tree and the video. I have to say, I love the music you choose. You had one with classical music in the sunset, with drifting drone footage, and it was as awesome as the jam in the one.
I did that for a year, now i'm a forestry officer on the ground. kudoos to you guys!
You do a great job making entertaining videos. One reason I like them is because they are not all the same. Some are a little instructional, some upbeat with music, some joking with the crew and all good! I like that new shirt too. 👍
Awsome vid series, More please. You guys are the best.
Great video...I am waaay humbled.
Thank you I enjoyed the video. What would you recommend for good all around rigging equipment? I have a small rigging kit with the mini porta wrap a 1/2 rope and the Omni 1.1 pully with a nylon strap. I was looking to upgrade my equipment. I don’t do a lot of work so I don’t want a ton of stuff but I’d like good all around equipment I can make work in many situations.
Nice job fellas! Joe u got to be careful! August needs Adam.....🤣🤣🤣🤣
Hello from Finland! Awesome job! GRCS would be really nice gear to have on some tree jobs!
This was better than waking up to a chocolate bunny. Thanks August and team! Happy Easter
Nice shot Joe ❌
I work with industrial piping and we specialize in puzzling pipe together.
Industrial plants especially mines are so cramped for space that a lot of the time things have to be installed in order so that everything fits and are possible.
Mechanics and new engines take the cake though these days because once you could sit on a fender with your feet and legs in an engine bay but not anymore.
Super videos Thanks for posting.
If I have had so much as a throw line in a tree I have at least a recreational helmet on. Countless times at the end of the day I have been coiling rope or whatever, and a twig or small branch or chunk of bark has bull's eyed me right in the head. My first experience, though, was while in the Army. The Sergeant had said we didn't need to keep our helmets on, but I was in too much of a hurry to stop and take mine off. It may have saved my life. We loaded my truck and everyone else left for the work site because we were short handed, and left me to chain down the load by myself. I hooked the chain binder into the lowest link available and used all my strength to snap up the handle. While securing the safety chain the handle slipped past my thumb. The tip of the chain binder handle struck me on top of the helmet and drove my head down several inches. I've been a fanatic about safety gear ever since. I'm glad Adam was okay!
Ran that top beautifully. Well done on the ground
Thanks for another great video
Poetry in motion. August and crew!
Great job leading your team.
Great job and video like always
Nice work. Thanks for the video.
NICE video, thank you for your time.
Great video
Cedar...the only tree that hangs on itself.
Had a similar job last week , scots pines, 7 in a row above an indoor swimming pool and antique street lamps, fences, phone lines, electric cable and a main road.
Branches tangles , grown into others and one of the trees tops had snapped and wS being held up precariously by the branches underneath that had also either snapped or cracked and all were hard forward leaning.
Nowhere to speed line, and only a narrow area between the roof and a fence ...in the end the best way to do it was use scaffolding boards to board out the pool room roof and rig it so every tree could be rigged to be lowered from the most central tree , gently lower onto the roof and then cut it there before taking it down the narrow path to the chipper..
Nightmare, boss looked and said 2 days , didn't take the technical aspect od see the damage or snspped top threaded thru and resting on broken branches of other trees..
Took us four days of painstakingly dismantling them and lowering them all into a few metre square drop zone..got amazing photos from that one
Nice work.
As he made the throw line joke I had been struggling with one for an hour ready to end it all
HAHA! Dang the SLOMO holstering the saw and pushing the chunk over. sllllliiiiiick budday
Something I noticed more this time I watched it was that when you cut off a limb on one side of the tree it would swing all the way around the tree and try to hit you in your butt. Mean vengeful tree!!!
That was a great watch for an Easter Sunday watch! Such amazing teamwork as always. That shirt is going to sell like hot cakes guaranteed! Have a wonderful Easter
Jeeze what a job ... Well done Guys...
Well this is a nice easter treat.
That tree has more forks than a restaurant. :D
Or a cafeteria! Eh!
No mess from da sy enn tiss an hiss crew . Good job guys xx
First rule of rope work:
Anything that can get tangled, will get tangled
Yuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuup!