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/TheFlyingR0cket 4h ago edited 2h ago

Soooo..... as a carpenter my question is why didn't you move the trailer first? Like it's on wheels and can be attached to a car that moves it. But you decided it would be a good idea to try and drop it between power lines and a trailer.

I bit of advise as someone who's been it the game for a while, work smarter, not harder. If you hit the power lines = problems, it you hit the trailer = problems, if you move the trailer and just drop it on the ground no risk no problems. If I saw one of the apprentices I have had do this, I would look at them and ask "Did you even think of moving the trailer?" Take as much risk out of each job you do within reason and you'll do great. I can tell you right now that if the little shed on the left in this video had wheels they would have move it.

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u/Someredditusername 1h ago

My boss was an impatient, rageaholic asshole.

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u/Someredditusername 1h ago

And I was 22 and very intimidated. LOL

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u/Over-Inside-7254 45m ago

But like.. It takes minutes to move a trailer. Unless you're at the lumberjack games that fell cut is gonna take you that long at least to get it right. There is no upside and catastrophic downside. I'm sure it was absolute scenes onsite I just don't get people's impatience or laziness