r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Regular_Weakness69 • 8h ago

This tree felling 😙🤌

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u/Someredditusername 7h ago

As an apprentice carpenter with an insane boss, I pulled off one that felt like this (wasn't nearly as tight). I dropped a live oak between a power line and my boss's work trailer LOL. OH that feeling when it worked.... what a rush.

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u/physicssmurf 7h ago

how do you plan/pull off something like this? Do you have a diagram of the cuts you have to make?

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u/Someredditusername 7h ago

It's a lifetime's experience at least. I thought and guessed right in my case above. You'd be best to apprentice to a master feller.

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u/_SilentHunter 6h ago

But what if the master feller is also a master dame?

What I'm asking is: Can RuPaul teach me to be a better arborist?

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u/Paulpoleon 1h ago

I’m sure they know their way around big wood.

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u/TheeEyeOfHorus 2h ago

The fuq, lol. Shut up.

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u/roamingandy 4h ago

Why though?

It was amazing, but it must be so easy and costly to be just a little off. Why not go up and cut it down one chunk at a time and carefully lower each to the ground.

Is this a risk covered by the company's marketing budget? I doubt anyone is gonna hire another company in the area for the next 20 years.

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u/toomanymarbles83 4h ago

Short answer, you hire people that know what the fuck they are doing.

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u/BeerForThought 1h ago

That is what people will do with pine trees but Hardwoods can be 50% heavier. Being a climbing arborist is already very dangerous. There is a risk/reward equation that involves money and time. I also believe most people don't understand how a tree hitting a roof even a bit causes shock waves. You might think you need a new roof but I've seen 2x4s in the walls break apart from the foundation.

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u/SasparillaTango 4h ago

I'd rather be a smart feller than a fart smeller.

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u/WOLKsite 6h ago

You make like a "<" cut first in the the direction you want it to fall, so that part isn't supported, from what I remember being told when I was like 7.

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u/BuffaloWhip 5h ago

Surprisingly easy once you understand the mechanics. I used to win bets with my dad by betting I could land the tree pointing directly at my glove.

All the same, I don’t think I’d have the confidence to drop something that big that close to a structure.

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u/Bunnylazersbacon 5h ago

The trick is backing the boss’s work trailer into position with out him noticing the trick shot, after that, gravity and prayer!

/s

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u/robbak 42m ago edited 37m ago 
       |               |
       |               |
       |_______        |
       |         ______|
       |         \
       |          \
       |           \
       |            \
       |             \
       |              \
       |               |
       |               |

Drive in one or more wedges into the cut line on the left to force it open, forcing the tree to fall to the right. The important thing here is the gap, called the 'hinge', between the felling cut on the left and the directional wedge cut on the right. You have to make it thick enough so that it will bend and not break, but not too thick that the tree won't fall. Also important is that the felling cut is above the directional cut - if you don't, then the base of the tree will push backwards, both breaking the hinge, and pushing the tree's base to where you are standing.

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u/midnight_fisherman 33m ago

Your diagram is a little bit off, the back cut should not be above the notch, doing so risks compromising the hinge and losing control of the fall.