Tree Cutting Fails Compilation And Idiots With Chainsaw ! Dangerous skills Tree Falling

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[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Terrifying and hard to watch! I needed this, I'm so tempted to take down some of my trees.

[–]Tom_Bombadil[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It's a nail biter for sure.

We can be certain that many of those fellas woke up sore the next morning... ;-)

[–]bobbobbybob 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (8 children)

fellinggonewild was a reddit favourite. I learn how to use my (small) chainsaw safety by watching people kill themselves doing it wrong, plus snarky reddit commentary

[–]Tom_Bombadil[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

Reddit is/was good for some things.

I don't ever feel comfortable around running chainsaws. Irreversable damage.

However, in these videos the chainsaws are less dangerous than the trees!?

[–]bobbobbybob 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

the rule is: ladder + chainsaw + no PPG = disaster.

[–]Tom_Bombadil[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

PPG? What kind of PPG can protect from a chainsaw?

I'm envisioning full plate tree trimming?

[–]bobbobbybob 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

chainsaw PPG is full of fibres that tear out and gum up the chainsaw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWIwyfkmlNs

also, hardhat, face protection, gloves, steel toecaps, ear protection all play vital roles in keeping you safe.

So anyone who isn't wearing that set obviously is either unaware of how many different ways a tree can kill you, or doesn't care.

Put them on a ladder, cutting a branch, and you know they are idiots, and that the chance of them cutting the branch/tree badly so that either it, or the chainsaw, hits them, is high.

[–]Tom_Bombadil[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

That material is badass.

[–]bobbobbybob 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

yup. still don't quite believe it'll work if I ever hit my legs with the saw.

[–]Tom_Bombadil[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

You should mount the chainsaw as a survival trophy if you're ever unlucky enough to use that PPG and you walk away from it.

[–]bobbobbybob 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

May that day of using PPG never come!

Happy for it to be completely unecessary, foverver

[–]Myrkskog 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (8 children)

As a tree care professional of 15 years in the industry, having worked in two world renown botanic and horticultural gardens, having taught and instructed at an agricultural college and having conducted my own private tree work in between, this video is agonising to watch. Clowns.

[–]Tom_Bombadil[S] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (7 children)

Those fellas are foolishly courageous beyond description.

Just to save a couple of bucks.

They should have emailed Prof. Myrkskog.

[–]Myrkskog 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (6 children)

If the clip starts with a man on a ladder and a chainsaw in hand, you can guarantee it ends in tears, torn flesh, broken bones and internal bleeding.

[–]Tom_Bombadil[S] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

And i'll probably want to watch it.

Aaaaaaand I might regret seeing it.

[–]Myrkskog 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

Just stick to the clips with houses, shacks and cars. Chances are they get crushed instead of the plonker revving the chainsaw. I remember seeing clips of a narcoleptic "tree cutter" from Florida when youtube was new and I was studying forestry/arboriculture. Scared the piss outta me.

[–]Tom_Bombadil[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

It's that narcoleptic tree cutter still around?

[–]Myrkskog 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=narcoleptic+tree+cutter

The first three results look familiar. James The Narcoleptic Tree Cutter. If memory serves, there's one bit where he's out on a super outstretched, possibly failed limb or stem, one handed cutting with a groundsaw at arms reach, then falls asleep mid-cut. There's some other horror show stuff that I'm forgetting. I can't watch this shit as it makes my soul want to exit out of my anus.

[–]Tom_Bombadil[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Narcoleptic tree cutting without a harness is not cool.

Those homeowners risked their property and that fool's life to save a couple of bucks. Disgraceful.

[–]Myrkskog 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Hahaha, exactly! It's fair enough that the man doing the work is a clown, but what of the customer? Surely people can see or sense what is safe or not...? And to consent to some moron undertaking seriously dodgy work on your house, home, garden, car, body, soul, etc... I guess they must either be just as stupid or scared to speak up and tell them to fuck off.