I 💯 percent agree..I actually watched it all top..it's gotta be interesting to keep my attention that long..I guess I'm a lot like this guy. Be safe Brother and May God Bless All!!!
I don't know, I work fast. I've seen guys and friends that do this all their lives, and they would have dropped that tree much faster without climbing, wedges, and hit the spot. We are close to 70 years old self taught and that tree is not that big. But we live in the high forest, dropping trees is what we do. I'm not bragging we just drop tress all the time for rual people that can't and man there a lot of dead pines up here. Maybe it's just different in resadential areas ?
I agree. I was asked to write about my decades as a lawyer recently so I wrote about all the failures. Too many people just make out everything they do goes well but real life is not like that and I think it is important younger people things do go wrong - it is just part of life.
NO FAILS, anyone that’s never worked trees, especially that size and want to criticize, they’re idiots. You know your craft and can’t take anything away from that. Awesome, start to finish. Nice work, man.
Block facecut. The tree had developed so much momentum and downward angle by the time it closed the block face that the "swing" side of the face could not actually swing the tree, maybe only spin it a little. But if you hadn't said you were going to swing it, and instead said you were going to put it right in that skinny little gap between the two trees, I would have been very impressed! Wonderful video. Thanks!
Not to nerd-out too much but your eye for storytelling, visual framing and tight editing is noteworthy. The _keeping-the-audience-on-tinterhooks_ part is icing on the cake. 😊
For a lumberjack and a tree feller, there's nothing totally certain except uncertainty. Trees don't always behave like you want them to and the taller and the bigger the diameter can quickly expotentiate the uncertainty. You may be a little too modest, you have nothing to be ashamed of in the least. I have a little experience but my older brother is the expert with nearly 60 years experience and still cuts trees in his 80s and having worked with him and watched him that long I think I'm qualified to rate your performance. You had great control over where things landed with minimal collateral damage. AAA-1 job!
100% agree. I'm a climber/arborist in training and from what I have experienced, the only certainty with tree work is that trees are unpredictable. Everything can be set up perfectly, escape routes mapped, good cuts, solid holding wood, clear communication, pretty much everything is perfectly set up, and the tree still might decide to say, "Nope. Not doing what you want". Always be prepared for things to go wrong. Although I will say the one-handing the saw makes me nervous. I almost lost my thumb to a saw a few years ago (injured by someone being an idiot, not b my own hand), severed both tendons in it. Since then, I am a stickler for two-handing saws. Your humility is appreciated. Thank you for sharing the video.
@@maseyado2123 I come from a long line of sea captains and loggers. You mentioned your thumb reminds me of one of my uncles who had lost half his thumb and I remember so vividly him and his "rat tail" file sharpening his chainsaws. He was a tree cutting fool, when he was felling trees you had to stay the heck out of the way.
I would not worry about what people say in the comments you done a fantastic job, at the end of the day it's about going home ALIVE you done every thing right.
Excellent work. Good to see someone who is very good at their job. I like what you said about cowboys! Always err on caution and do it right and safe! Didn't go as you expected at the end but still a very good job. Worth all the money that is charged. Keep uo the great work and having the video footage is a bonus.
Ha! I agree…my stomach was rolling because of the space from where you were to where the branches seemed to splatter on the ground below. AND I was a tree pruning landscaper. I climbed trees all the time but never that high!
Why trust these high up limbs as your tying point? you could’ve gone around the tree for your tying point way up there. The integrity of those bicep size limbs wasn’t assured, and that was risky.
My Stomach was turning from my couch! You Sir, Are one Bad Ass! I know it didnt fall exactly where you wanted it to go, But its down, There is no damage and you are not hurt. That is a Massive Win in my book! Be safe Brother!
Dude you’re crazy as hell! I did the same thing for 20+ years without incident and then one day I just knew it was time to quit.Watching you top this tree made me reaLise how crazy I was!
I’ve been self employed for 36 years as a landscaper now I’ve downsized as a gardener, respect mate you are excellent at your job! I would recommend you without hesitation but I’m from the uk! Respect, excellent work !
That was great from start to finish. When the title said wrong direction, I thought the tree would fall on the house or something major! You did an excellent job. If you had a bigger, straight hinge, you could’ve put it exactly where you wanted it. 👍
You could have cut out the part where you talked about the tree not needing to go there and I would have believed your a sniper with tree trunks 😂 But thanks for being humble and honest 👍
Wow! Bro you're Awesome! You're indeed a professional tree cutter. Looking at you operate at such great height my heart is pounding and worried about your safety. To me you did a great job. May God blessand protect you and your team I pray. (Viewing from the Caribbean Twin Island Republic of Trinidad and Tobago)
Same here! The only way I could get through it without having a heart attack was by saying, "he makes it out fine, he makes it out fine" over and over again. Man, I hope he gets paid a lot for his trade; it takes courage and tremendous skill.
Back in the day we used to have to Buck for two years before he ever got to cut a tree. So Buck her up. Bucking is just about if not harder than falling 101 my friend good luck and God bless you 🇺🇸
I was a Gardener for a big City in Ontario Canada . We had an Arborist Crew which we worked with on occasion. I really loved to watch these guys climb it was amazing the expertise and precision in which they felled trees . There were no cowboys only trained professionals that respected their craft . You remind me of those men . You are humble and have the greatest respect for your profession. Love watching your video , reminds me of those days . Thanks
That was really cool to see, And to hear you speaking your mind. my palms were sweating and i thought i was gonna puke when the tree was moving. And here i am in my comfortable chair.
Spell bounding video. Job well done. As unpredictable tree jobs go your ability to direct branches with great precision and then the stem as much as possible was fantastic.
Not a fail in my book! Down safely!!!!!! You're awesome! I'm not afraid of heights but that's ridiculous!! Great job!! You're the man for the job!! WOW!!!!!!!!!!!
Dude, that was a good job. Lovely climbing and de-limbing. A good learning opportunity, well-taken when v small chance of genuine issues from a fail. 👍
Hey brother, not sure if you are already there but SDVOSB certification through the SBA would really open up some larger opportunities for you post military. If you are already doing gov contracts this will set you apart even further. Very few “tree companies” in the federal market. Goldmine of opportunity in that niche, VA campuses alone. Speaking from experience. God bless you and your company
Nothing you do 100ft up a DEAD fir can be described as "easy" money - you earn every cent. Some excellent rope work - love yer motorised uplifter - saves a lot of arm ache. I once took on a tree started by someone who'd bottled out as we say here in England - storm damaged Black Poplar, a beast - 60ft of clear trunk with crotch and three smash limbs above. Even with a 36" the crotch needed a double bite and lower down cuts had to be reduced to 6" and even then needed rollers to push them off. Leave that to you young'uns now - glad I found your channel.
Bro. You've definitely got BALLS OF STEEL... Damn... and thank yall for sharing that video. And its allways fun to see other men having fun at work.... And again. Thanks for the video. Mad love. And Respect
You should guide the tree with the hinge, not closing the notch. Besides by time notch closed, tree was already between the other 2 trees. It could only go the way it did by that point. Dont want notch to close either. If it does things get dangerous. Hinge will most likely break. Tree becomes uncontrolled projectile. Make notch aimed to where you want it to fall. Make it 1/3 of the diameter. Then if you get it aimed wrong, still enough there to adjust it. Have a rope pulling the direction you want it to fall. Tie it to the top of log before coming down. Pulley for redirect. If you have a truck or skid steer, hook rope to front pulling backwards. Backwards so you have eye contact with the operator. When get backcut close to hinge signal to start pulling gently. When tree starts to move, signal again to slowly pull it over. Cut a bit more if needed. Get the hell out of there. And never cut a tree without a rope in it. Have cut many trees. Many much bigger than that one. And in some very sketchy places. We usually got the ones nobody else wanted to do. Had some close calls. But no major F ups. You did good. All ended well. Didn't have to call the roofers. And everyone went home. Just remember you never know everything. As soon as you know everything. When you know exactly what's going to happen, that tree is going to send you a curve ball to show you don't know shit. Be safe and respect the tree. Your life and lives of those around you depend on it.
Winch connected to tree before vehicle. Vehicles have been known to start driving away & back wheels lifted of ground & lost traction & pulled backwards. Not for a trimmed tree but for a bushy tree the wind caught..
"Wrong direction"...OK, *slightly*, but still excellent. "Epic fail"...LOL barely even a fail at all. That was very well done, and while I'm sure there are plenty of guys in the comments who have cut down several trees themselves, and have tips for you, I'll just admire a job well done. If I owned that property, I'd be entirely pleased with the results, and relieved at the risks mitigated by felling that monster. Nice job with the filming and narration, too. I wandered onto this video, but I'm subscribing now. I could tell you about a real fail, from a home-gamer "helping out" parents with a couple of trees.
Good job, if I could offer some advice about the face-cut? Since you were a little bit concerned about it going to far in the direction you didn't want it to go? Since you had a rope up in it for leverage pulling, you might have been able to use the pull to your advantage by holding more hinge wood in the direction that you wanted it to go in and pulling it harder with the rope in the direction that you wanted it to go in using the holding wood to guide it more that way? If that makes sense to you?
With that large of a tree, its momentum is huge. Once it starts moving, it's nearly impossible for a closing hinge to change its direction of fall. The hinge in a dead pine or very mature pine will basically be failed after about five degrees.
You fell victim to trying to rationalize a face cut that was simply pointed in the wrong direction. You talked yourself into believing that snipe cut would pull it to the left, but that was never going to happen. This was a good opportunity to experiment, and you learned a lesson, so it’s a win. Nice work.
Mighty fine bovine spongiform, all good perfectly not perfect, your a braver for doing what your doing and loving it at the same time, safe and go home at night in one piece with happy customers and dollars in the jeans, timberland onward 🌴👍thanks for the show.
Nothing ‘wild’ about it. This young man is a skillful tree cutter. He’s very intelligent and careful, making calculated decisions, not guesses. He knows what to do and is doing it. Any man can buy a chainsaw, but that doesn’t qualify them to be expert tree cutters.
@@e.conboy4286 Different meaning of wild. It was very wild in the way I'm using the world. It was also a cool video, but I'm not talking about temperature.
Seven or eight years ago, my sister had a tree removed that was way too close to her house. It was big enough to have four of the men shoulder to shoulder and the stump blocked them. Her two story house was dwarfed by the tree. It looked like a toy house next to the tree. It was going pretty well until part of the tree fell on the corner of the house. Thank goodness for good insurance. The company made all repairs. Their boss was not happy.
Hey man, teaching myself to cut and climb on my property and a buddies. Gonna start contract climbing for him soon, and I retire from being a nasty girl in 3 years. No idea how you do AD and climb, but my hats off to you. Can’t wait to see you become one of the greats
If you were relying on some rotation based on a contact point in the wedge area, I'm afraid the reason it didn't rotate is because of the amount of rotational energy needed to initiate the rotation is much higher than you realize. The mass of the tree causes the amount of energy to be too high... so the tree just went straight according to the cut. To impart a rotation you need to input more than just a short impulse.
A great video to watch. You delimbed that tree and placed all the limbs where you said would. Missed the sideealk, light standard , smaller trees, gas line, and if you had planned to put it between those two trees i would have been surprised at this outcome and as you planned to put ut in clear without jitting any other trees it go to show as much experience you have, sometimes the tree size and weight can throw off the prrise plan. I think it was an excellant job. Probably only a few hours, no injuries or property damage and the video narration was excellant. A great video by peoffesional with an easy going aproach to the job. Well done.
Great job on safely removing the dead tree! Your attention to safety and detail is commendable. 🌳🪓 Keep climbing, keep growing, and keep shining bright, my friends! 🌟🌱✨
that was still a good job man! I was wondering if the tree being dead didn't allow the hinge to hold as long as they normally do? I noticed that the hinge seemed to just break instead of holding and pulling the wood fibers like normal.
The Widbey Island air base near Anacortes Wa. has “Growler” airplanes. When the atmospheric conditions are right we can hear them take off in Victoria BC. I heard at least three take off yesterday. Fortunately, McCord is much further away. 😊 🇨🇦
The reason it did not go exactly where you wanted it is because the bar on your 500 is upside down. LOL. Seriously, considering how challenging that was, it is a win. No one hurt and nothing wrecked. Thanks for a great video with excellent narration. Stay safe!
Looked good to me. Maybe not perfect but no property damage and no injury. Sort of like the old axiom, "Any plane landing you can walk away from is a good one".
Interesting…. I climbed for more than 50 years. Very difficult to see clearly on video. But a at a glance I thought your face cut was too deep…limiting the amount of wood to control the fall. What I did notice is the technique of riding up the tree and the new sorts of gear using a single strand climbing rope or safety. Things have changed since I learned and performed this work. By the way I’m 77 and my last climb & topping was 4 years ago. Is that a Husky (California Special ?) trim saw? That was my last trim saw, had amazing power….your saw wasn’t just sharp, you used it very effectively! Although I might have put all the branches on the parking surface? You did all the branch cuts very skillfully and saved time in the process….dead wood breaks much differently than live wood. So henges are not as strong or reliable. Very skillful of you…almost perfect…
@@VeteranTreeService I wouldn’t have used an Echo ever…in my day, because I did…so I’ll assume they’ve improved substantially! But there’s an old saying “any sharp knife is a good knife,” that might well apply to a saw! The “California Special” was literally a bored out Husky by request of Huskavrna Corp. by a Saw and Climbing Gear Company located in Willits near Ukiah, California. Damn powerful! I still have the saw, can’t be without a chainsaw in my tool chest! During my years I always carried three Stahls did so for 50 years before changing over somewhat to Husky. Chain speed is everything in control of a cut! The tone of your confidence and your patience shows real ability in the trade. You’re the type of profile I would have gladly worked with in my years! As a sculptor/painter artist (now) my tree work was highly concentrated on esthetics. The finest tree care and that was inclusive of radical trim shaping. From giant eucalyptus to ornamental pines from Northeastern Pacific Slope, California’s Mendocino County to Santa Cruz Mountains to Vancouver Island to New York State. Although the Bay Area was the most diverse and challenging of all. San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park during a period of “recovery and replanting” in the 80’s was the supreme arborist ideal. As well as an essential world class arboretum. My focus was the most esthetic and artful shaping or the most dangerous of take downs. Rarely routine work once I was accomplished. Dangerous were the dead wood no one would climb, or mistakes by other tree men that were hung up disasters, always a challenge. Your pace and skills were very clean. And be sure to protect yourself from arthritis and joint disability that comes with age. I became very frugal in the work I chose never trying to seek the constant financial reward. I was there for the trees and the health of everyone and everything concerned. Saving people’s homes and property and even a few lives along the way was very rewarding. Stay alive and keep all your fingers! That’s my best speech, Satchitananda…think on a Quantum Level be the Tree we need them to survive. Dustin Gaersmith
I'll start off by saying I know nothing. Could you have replaced a part of the wedge of the tree you cut out to leverage or encourage the tree to fall in the direction you wanted it to go.?
When you climb for other companies, with guys who have been doing it for decades, before you work for yourself. You learn things you can't learn on UA-cam.
@@josephweber5936Back in the day people self taught themselves to survive etc so that's not a bad thing. It's good to have and get experience these days though with all the equipment that we use now and the fact that these trees are on people's property etc and with liabilities, insurance crap, lawsuits that will happen that are so prevalent now but self taught isn't a bad thing. Hell, I've self taught myself how to do many of things and have perfected them but of course there will be failures at times no matter who you're or what it's that you're doing.
To all of those that have negative comments on this video , post one of yourself doing it better. Then you can trash talk or spew whatever . Till then , this dude has balls of steel, and he and his crew are kickin seeious ass out there. Nothing about that work is easy, not climbing, falling, bucking or even sweeping it up !!! Just sayin, give credit where its due.
Look at it this way. 1. No one got hurt 2. You did your job and got the tree down. 3. There was no damaged property That is a recipe for a WIN all damn day everyday in my book!!
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I'm an old guy with a short attention span.
I watched this start to finish.
REALLY well narrated and explained. Damn good job!
Thanks. I appreciate it.
I 💯 percent agree..I actually watched it all top..it's gotta be interesting to keep my attention that long..I guess I'm a lot like this guy. Be safe Brother and May God Bless All!!!
I don't know, I work fast. I've seen guys and friends that do this all their lives, and they would have dropped that tree much faster without climbing, wedges, and hit the spot. We are close to 70 years old self taught and that tree is not that big. But we live in the high forest, dropping trees is what we do. I'm not bragging we just drop tress all the time for rual people that can't and man there a lot of dead pines up here. Maybe it's just different in resadential areas ?
@@moepow8160 Take a video of any of those trees and watch it. The tree will look half the size.
@@moepow8160 Much faster? Really?
Make a video and post it. Please!
I'd LOVE to see that.
I appreciate your humility to show it and tell it like it is.
I agree. I was asked to write about my decades as a lawyer recently so I wrote about all the failures. Too many people just make out everything they do goes well but real life is not like that and I think it is important younger people things do go wrong - it is just part of life.
My nerves were shot watching you climb that monster tree! Hats off to you!
And this is nothing! I climbed way more sketchy trees last year before I started this UA-cam channel. 😀
3:35 I was scared he was gonna cut his rope
NO FAILS, anyone that’s never worked trees, especially that size and want to criticize, they’re idiots. You know your craft and can’t take anything away from that. Awesome, start to finish. Nice work, man.
Yeah, nobody was hurt and no damage = no fail 👍👍
It dropped the way the holding wood dictated as usual. Its not a fail but he could have done better obviously.
Looked like a beaver with a toothache made that face cut.
He knew the notch was cut at the wrong angle & did not straighten it properly. If he does something that simple again it should be a 'quit'.
Block facecut. The tree had developed so much momentum and downward angle by the time it closed the block face that the "swing" side of the face could not actually swing the tree, maybe only spin it a little. But if you hadn't said you were going to swing it, and instead said you were going to put it right in that skinny little gap between the two trees, I would have been very impressed!
Wonderful video. Thanks!
The only blocks I mess around with are in Minecraft. 🤷♂️🤪
Not to nerd-out too much but your eye for storytelling, visual framing and tight editing is noteworthy. The _keeping-the-audience-on-tinterhooks_ part is icing on the cake. 😊
Well said.
Great video Everybody walks away no gas pipes broken no structures destroyed It's a good day. Thank you
For sure
Things do not always go as planned. BUT- No one hurt, no significant property damage, threat posed by dead tree eliminated. Win-win in my book.
Dude, looking down from that tree gave me the eeby jeebys almost like I was the one up there. My hat is off to you. Great video.
For a lumberjack and a tree feller, there's nothing totally certain except uncertainty. Trees don't always behave like you want them to and the taller and the bigger the diameter can quickly expotentiate the uncertainty. You may be a little too modest, you have nothing to be ashamed of in the least. I have a little experience but my older brother is the expert with nearly 60 years experience and still cuts trees in his 80s and having worked with him and watched him that long I think I'm qualified to rate your performance. You had great control over where things landed with minimal collateral damage. AAA-1 job!
100% agree. I'm a climber/arborist in training and from what I have experienced, the only certainty with tree work is that trees are unpredictable. Everything can be set up perfectly, escape routes mapped, good cuts, solid holding wood, clear communication, pretty much everything is perfectly set up, and the tree still might decide to say, "Nope. Not doing what you want". Always be prepared for things to go wrong. Although I will say the one-handing the saw makes me nervous. I almost lost my thumb to a saw a few years ago (injured by someone being an idiot, not b my own hand), severed both tendons in it. Since then, I am a stickler for two-handing saws. Your humility is appreciated. Thank you for sharing the video.
@@maseyado2123 I come from a long line of sea captains and loggers. You mentioned your thumb reminds me of one of my uncles who had lost half his thumb and I remember so vividly him and his "rat tail" file sharpening his chainsaws. He was a tree cutting fool, when he was felling trees you had to stay the heck out of the way.
He has such strength in his arms and legs! I appreciate his expertise and skills! God protect him and his team!
I would not worry about what people say in the comments you done a fantastic job, at the end of the day it's about going home ALIVE you done every thing right.
Excellent work. Good to see someone who is very good at their job. I like what you said about cowboys! Always err on caution and do it right and safe! Didn't go as you expected at the end but still a very good job. Worth all the money that is charged. Keep uo the great work and having the video footage is a bonus.
Your candor is so refreshing. It does NOT always go as planned.
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That was a gollywhopper of a tree...and you had me worried when you were at the top!....great job.
I was getting sick watching this video..i have 100% respect for you and all climbers..
Geez, am I that ugly? Rude! 😅😉
Ha! I agree…my stomach was rolling because of the space from where you were to where the branches seemed to splatter on the ground below. AND I was a tree pruning landscaper. I climbed trees all the time but never that high!
Ha! Ha! I’m with ya! Honestly, heights never used to bother me, but aparently they do now! ;-)
Couldn't agree with you more. Can't handle Heights.
Why trust these high up limbs as your tying point? you could’ve gone around the tree for your tying point way up there. The integrity of those bicep size limbs wasn’t assured, and that was risky.
My Stomach was turning from my couch! You Sir, Are one Bad Ass! I know it didnt fall exactly where you wanted it to go, But its down, There is no damage and you are not hurt. That is a Massive Win in my book! Be safe Brother!
Dude you’re crazy as hell! I did the same thing for 20+ years without incident and then one day I just knew it was time to quit.Watching you top this tree made me reaLise how crazy I was!
Haha. Nah, just make logical decisions. It's just like any other labor job at height.
How tall was the tree.@@VeteranTreeService
@@christophertaylor2464 not super tall maybe 110-120ft. I can't honestly remember.
@@VeteranTreeService I was thinking it was 200 or 250 ft tall.
I live in central Texas and we have up to 120 ft pine trees here.
I’ve been self employed for 36 years as a landscaper now I’ve downsized as a gardener, respect mate you are excellent at your job!
I would recommend you without hesitation but I’m from the uk!
Respect, excellent work !
That was great from start to finish. When the title said wrong direction, I thought the tree would fall on the house or something major! You did an excellent job. If you had a bigger, straight hinge, you could’ve put it exactly where you wanted it. 👍
A true professional job! Well Done!
Thank you for the entertainment, was a great job. Loved the view, from here in Florida. So beautiful. Cheers guys.❤😊
Amazing. Thanks for the constant commentary. I actually became quite tense at the end.
You could have cut out the part where you talked about the tree not needing to go there and I would have believed your a sniper with tree trunks 😂
But thanks for being humble and honest 👍
Haha. Ya, most people would have.
Wow! Bro you're Awesome! You're indeed a professional tree cutter. Looking at you operate at such great height my heart is pounding and worried about your safety. To me you did a great job. May God blessand protect you and your team I pray. (Viewing from the Caribbean Twin Island Republic of Trinidad and Tobago)
Hey man, absolutely no points deducted from where I sit. You did a great job!
Thanks
I didn't know i could get sick watching a video.
Great skill.
My heart is still beating fast 3 minutes after the video.
I felt nauseous for the entire video.
Same here! The only way I could get through it without having a heart attack was by saying, "he makes it out fine, he makes it out fine" over and over again. Man, I hope he gets paid a lot for his trade; it takes courage and tremendous skill.
Back in the day we used to have to Buck for two years before he ever got to cut a tree. So Buck her up. Bucking is just about if not harder than falling 101 my friend good luck and God bless you 🇺🇸
It is certainly a lot of work.
Great video 📹 👍, I like the comments, it makes the videos more interesting. Thank you 😊. Bless you. Keep up the good work.
Comments are the best
I was a Gardener for a big City in Ontario Canada . We had an Arborist Crew which we worked with on occasion. I really loved to watch these guys climb it was amazing the expertise and precision in which they felled trees . There were no cowboys only trained professionals that respected their craft . You remind me of those men . You are humble and have the greatest respect for your profession. Love watching your video , reminds me of those days . Thanks
That was really cool to see, And to hear you speaking your mind. my palms were sweating and i thought i was gonna puke when the tree was moving. And here i am in my comfortable chair.
Lol. 👍
Spell bounding video. Job well done. As unpredictable tree jobs go your ability to direct branches with great precision and then the stem as much as possible was fantastic.
Not a fail in my book! Down safely!!!!!! You're awesome! I'm not afraid of heights but that's ridiculous!! Great job!! You're the man for the job!! WOW!!!!!!!!!!!
Dude, that was a good job. Lovely climbing and de-limbing. A good learning opportunity, well-taken when v small chance of genuine issues from a fail. 👍
Nice technical work bud. Proud of ya.
Retired Safety Engineer
Wow no problem with heights I see. Great landing and thank you for video.
We are glad that you are safe 🙏 and your friends that was walking the floor man glad y'all are safe
Safe and sound.
Thanks for the awesome video. You did an outstanding job. So great.. wow.
Hey brother, not sure if you are already there but SDVOSB certification through the SBA would really open up some larger opportunities for you post military. If you are already doing gov contracts this will set you apart even further. Very few “tree companies” in the federal market. Goldmine of opportunity in that niche, VA campuses alone. Speaking from experience. God bless you and your company
Thanks for the tip. 👍
This young man is very skilled. A professional. He earns and deserves the money he makes.
Hey....no one got hurt....and all property saved....great job
Thank god for people like you guys. I feel sick when you look down
Nothing you do 100ft up a DEAD fir can be described as "easy" money - you earn every cent. Some excellent rope work - love yer motorised uplifter - saves a lot of arm ache.
I once took on a tree started by someone who'd bottled out as we say here in England - storm damaged Black Poplar, a beast - 60ft of clear trunk with crotch and three smash limbs above. Even with a 36" the crotch needed a double bite and lower down cuts had to be reduced to 6" and even then needed rollers to push them off.
Leave that to you young'uns now - glad I found your channel.
Nice to have you watching. Thanks!
You are Frigging Krazzzy there is no way I would climb a tree that high let alone a DEAD one. I'm starting to get Queeeeezy watching this
Bro. You've definitely got BALLS OF STEEL...
Damn... and thank yall for sharing that video. And its allways fun to see other men having fun at work....
And again. Thanks for the video.
Mad love. And Respect
Look at you shopping at sappy supplies with those new wedges. Lol
@guiltyoftreeson
Lol
The top of the tree reminded me of Charlie Brown Christmas tree. Great Work 👍
Couple feet off doesn't seem so bad to me. That place is familiar. Hubby and I were stationed there for three years in the late 90s. Pretty place.
Awesome place. Love it here!
You should guide the tree with the hinge, not closing the notch. Besides by time notch closed, tree was already between the other 2 trees. It could only go the way it did by that point. Dont want notch to close either. If it does things get dangerous. Hinge will most likely break. Tree becomes uncontrolled projectile. Make notch aimed to where you want it to fall. Make it 1/3 of the diameter. Then if you get it aimed wrong, still enough there to adjust it. Have a rope pulling the direction you want it to fall. Tie it to the top of log before coming down. Pulley for redirect. If you have a truck or skid steer, hook rope to front pulling backwards. Backwards so you have eye contact with the operator. When get backcut close to hinge signal to start pulling gently. When tree starts to move, signal again to slowly pull it over. Cut a bit more if needed. Get the hell out of there. And never cut a tree without a rope in it. Have cut many trees. Many much bigger than that one. And in some very sketchy places. We usually got the ones nobody else wanted to do. Had some close calls. But no major F ups. You did good. All ended well. Didn't have to call the roofers. And everyone went home. Just remember you never know everything. As soon as you know everything. When you know exactly what's going to happen, that tree is going to send you a curve ball to show you don't know shit. Be safe and respect the tree. Your life and lives of those around you depend on it.
Winch connected to tree before vehicle. Vehicles have been known to start driving away & back wheels lifted of ground & lost traction & pulled backwards. Not for a trimmed tree but for a bushy tree the wind caught..
"Wrong direction"...OK, *slightly*, but still excellent. "Epic fail"...LOL barely even a fail at all. That was very well done, and while I'm sure there are plenty of guys in the comments who have cut down several trees themselves, and have tips for you, I'll just admire a job well done. If I owned that property, I'd be entirely pleased with the results, and relieved at the risks mitigated by felling that monster. Nice job with the filming and narration, too. I wandered onto this video, but I'm subscribing now. I could tell you about a real fail, from a home-gamer "helping out" parents with a couple of trees.
Great video, no property damage, very mild tree damage. WIN!!
It must be tough to work on-base. (USAF MSgt ret.)
It's nice. They clean everything up. I just posted a new video working on base.
1:50sec in and you just skim over the magic machine that just lifted you up the tree like it was no big deal!!! I had no idea that existed!!!
Good job, if I could offer some advice about the face-cut? Since you were a little bit concerned about it going to far in the direction you didn't want it to go? Since you had a rope up in it for leverage pulling, you might have been able to use the pull to your advantage by holding more hinge wood in the direction that you wanted it to go in and pulling it harder with the rope in the direction that you wanted it to go in using the holding wood to guide it more that way? If that makes sense to you?
I'm 70 and have felled in Alaska and across the states. This was perfectly professional and I salute you. You naysayers, get a life.....
I'm a 37 year veteran cutter in se Alaska never heard of you
With that large of a tree, its momentum is huge. Once it starts moving, it's nearly impossible for a closing hinge to change its direction of fall. The hinge in a dead pine or very mature pine will basically be failed after about five degrees.
Wow.. absolutely professional. This guy knows what he's doing. Very dangerous job and what ever they changed, well worth it. Great job!
You fell victim to trying to rationalize a face cut that was simply pointed in the wrong direction. You talked yourself into believing that snipe cut would pull it to the left, but that was never going to happen. This was a good opportunity to experiment, and you learned a lesson, so it’s a win. Nice work.
You, sir have balls that go clank! Great job and excellent video.😊
Mighty fine bovine spongiform, all good perfectly not perfect, your a braver for doing what your doing and loving it at the same time, safe and go home at night in one piece with happy customers and dollars in the jeans, timberland onward 🌴👍thanks for the show.
Looked really Awesome from our Vantage Point. NO Harm, NO Foul. 👍🙏
👍 It was awesome!
Very interesting video. So skilled.
1st time watching a video like this, it was wild. I can't believe how calm you sound up there.
Nothing ‘wild’ about it. This young man is a skillful tree cutter. He’s very intelligent and careful, making calculated decisions, not guesses. He knows what to do and is doing it. Any man can buy a chainsaw, but that doesn’t qualify them to be expert tree cutters.
@@e.conboy4286 Different meaning of wild. It was very wild in the way I'm using the world. It was also a cool video, but I'm not talking about temperature.
Seven or eight years ago, my sister had a tree removed that was way too close to her house. It was big enough to have four of the men shoulder to shoulder and the stump blocked them. Her two story house was dwarfed by the tree. It looked like a toy house next to the tree. It was going pretty well until part of the tree fell on the corner of the house. Thank goodness for good insurance. The company made all repairs. Their boss was not happy.
Nice job! Got my heart pumping!
Wow, excellent work and video! Pro all the way! Hope the rest of your career is safe and successful. Cheers!
No damage, no injuries, tools intact & great climb. All sleep well.
I was stationed a Ft Lewis for 12 years (around 1995-2007), loved it there! But too expensive to move back and live around there.
You did not fail the tree fell precisely between two other trees, not harming anything all your toppings felt precisely that’s a A+ you did not fail😊
Hey man, teaching myself to cut and climb on my property and a buddies. Gonna start contract climbing for him soon, and I retire from being a nasty girl in 3 years. No idea how you do AD and climb, but my hats off to you. Can’t wait to see you become one of the greats
If you were relying on some rotation based on a contact point in the wedge area, I'm afraid the reason it didn't rotate is because of the amount of rotational energy needed to initiate the rotation is much higher than you realize. The mass of the tree causes the amount of energy to be too high... so the tree just went straight according to the cut. To impart a rotation you need to input more than just a short impulse.
Great video and balls of steel climbing this thing
And the longest username award goes to you!
A great video to watch. You delimbed that tree and placed all the limbs where you said would. Missed the sideealk, light standard , smaller trees, gas line, and if you had planned to put it between those two trees i would have been surprised at this outcome and as you planned to put ut in clear without jitting any other trees it go to show as much experience you have, sometimes the tree size and weight can throw off the prrise plan. I think it was an excellant job. Probably only a few hours, no injuries or property damage and the video narration was excellant.
A great video by peoffesional with an easy going aproach to the job.
Well done.
Thank you for sharing this video.
How do you get the big rope up there in the first place to be able to use the pulley machine?
That was a win young man. No one hurt. Great job.
Kia Ora & Good Evening from Unsworth Heights, North Shore, Auckland, New Zealand ... Another Great Video Bro.
Hello!
Great job on safely removing the dead tree! Your attention to safety and detail is commendable. 🌳🪓 Keep climbing, keep growing, and keep shining bright, my friends! 🌟🌱✨
Hinge wood is everything. Glad youre safe! Great video!
Thanks
Awesome job... You guys nailed it ! Remember trees have a mind of their own at times 😃
I spent years climbing in the late 80s and 90s we used 120 ft rope and taught line hitch. Absolutely incredible watching the new equipment
Ya. Makes climbing so much safer and easier.
The higher you get the more time they have to go places!!!!
This statement just topped off and iconic day for me what a way to end the day
Good night
People like to fall asleep watching these videos. So funny to me.
Mad respect for this man! For sure 100% a tree climbing animal!!
that was still a good job man! I was wondering if the tree being dead didn't allow the hinge to hold as long as they normally do? I noticed that the hinge seemed to just break instead of holding and pulling the wood fibers like normal.
I love everything about how you work. Save energy for the cutting. The skill is in the cutting. This isn’t rock climbing.
This is awesome just watching the video. I can imagine what it's like to actually be the cutter/cameraman.
Nice job
I did not see it how did you get the rope that pulled you up in the top of the pineal??
Thanks for the video, and if the tree was leaning towards the east , what is the best way to pull it and let it fall towards the west?
The Widbey Island air base near Anacortes Wa. has “Growler” airplanes. When the atmospheric conditions are right we can hear them take off in Victoria BC. I heard at least three take off yesterday. Fortunately, McCord is much further away. 😊 🇨🇦
That's neat
Never seen that climbing tool before. How do you get the first rope up for it to climb up?
The reason it did not go exactly where you wanted it is because the bar on your 500 is upside down. LOL. Seriously, considering how challenging that was, it is a win. No one hurt and nothing wrecked. Thanks for a great video with excellent narration. Stay safe!
Looked good to me. Maybe not perfect but no property damage and no injury. Sort of like the old axiom, "Any plane landing you can walk away from is a good one".
Interesting…. I climbed for more than 50 years. Very difficult to see clearly on video. But a at a glance I thought your face cut was too deep…limiting the amount of wood to control the fall.
What I did notice is the technique of riding up the tree and the new sorts of gear using a single strand climbing rope or safety. Things have changed since I learned and performed this work.
By the way I’m 77 and my last climb & topping was 4 years ago. Is that a Husky (California Special ?) trim saw?
That was my last trim saw, had amazing power….your saw wasn’t just sharp, you used it very effectively!
Although I might have put all the branches on the parking surface? You did all the branch cuts very skillfully and saved time in the process….dead wood breaks much differently than live wood. So henges are not as strong or reliable. Very skillful of you…almost perfect…
The saw is an Echo. I like that name, "California special". 😅 Thanks for watching!
@@VeteranTreeService I wouldn’t have used an Echo ever…in my day, because I did…so I’ll assume they’ve improved substantially! But there’s an old saying “any sharp knife is a good knife,” that might well apply to a saw! The “California Special” was literally a bored out Husky by request of Huskavrna Corp. by a Saw and Climbing Gear Company located in Willits near Ukiah, California. Damn powerful! I still have the saw, can’t be without a chainsaw in my tool chest! During my years I always carried three Stahls did so for 50 years before changing over somewhat to Husky. Chain speed is everything in control of a cut!
The tone of your confidence and your patience shows real ability in the trade. You’re the type of profile I would have gladly worked with in my years! As a sculptor/painter artist (now) my tree work was highly concentrated on esthetics. The finest tree care and that was inclusive of radical trim shaping. From giant eucalyptus to ornamental pines from Northeastern Pacific Slope, California’s Mendocino County to Santa Cruz Mountains to Vancouver Island to New York State. Although the Bay Area was the most diverse and challenging of all. San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park during a period of “recovery and replanting” in the 80’s was the supreme arborist ideal. As well as an essential world class arboretum. My focus was the most esthetic and artful shaping or the most dangerous of take downs. Rarely routine work once I was accomplished.
Dangerous were the dead wood no one would climb, or mistakes by other tree men that were hung up disasters, always a challenge.
Your pace and skills were very clean. And be sure to protect yourself from arthritis and joint disability that comes with age. I became very frugal in the work I chose never trying to seek the constant financial reward. I was there for the trees and the health of everyone and everything concerned. Saving people’s homes and property and even a few lives along the way was very rewarding. Stay alive and keep all your fingers! That’s my best speech, Satchitananda…think on a Quantum Level be the Tree we need them to survive.
Dustin Gaersmith
Love the Mr. T clip!
PAIN!
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Good job keep up the good work! Appreciate the video
Thanks
I'll start off by saying I know nothing. Could you have replaced a part of the wedge of the tree you cut out to leverage or encourage the tree to fall in the direction you wanted it to go.?
I'm good at asking dumb questions so here we go. How do you get the first rope up to the top of the tree?
When you climb for other companies, with guys who have been doing it for decades, before you work for yourself. You learn things you can't learn on UA-cam.
It can also be a plus, you learn to innovate and be resourceful more than the average climber.
I can see that
The self taught tree guy has a fool for a teacher.
@josephweber5936 Best to work as a groundie and get a climber teach You
@@josephweber5936Back in the day people self taught themselves to survive etc so that's not a bad thing. It's good to have and get experience these days though with all the equipment that we use now and the fact that these trees are on people's property etc and with liabilities, insurance crap, lawsuits that will happen that are so prevalent now but self taught isn't a bad thing. Hell, I've self taught myself how to do many of things and have perfected them but of course there will be failures at times no matter who you're or what it's that you're doing.
To all of those that have negative comments on this video , post one of yourself doing it better.
Then you can trash talk or spew whatever .
Till then , this dude has balls of steel, and he and his crew are kickin seeious ass out there. Nothing about that work is easy, not climbing, falling, bucking or even sweeping it up !!!
Just sayin, give credit where its due.
You Sir are a Master at your Craft . Not A Home Depot Week End Warrior
Look at it this way.
1. No one got hurt
2. You did your job and got the tree down.
3. There was no damaged property
That is a recipe for a WIN all damn day everyday in my book!!