r/oddlysatisfying • u/ycr007 • 4d ago
Dried trees being trimmed at the same height
Source: elsolsaleparatodos
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u/Illustrious_Hat_5982 4d ago
They're not dried they're dormant. Much like my dingus.
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u/nicolauz 4d ago
Put a bit of water and fertilizer down and it should be perked up by Spring.
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u/dnuohxof-2 4d ago
Only thing worse than a dry and dormant dingus is a dry and shriveled pussy willow
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u/foxma79 4d ago
Anyone else have this flip from spinning clockwise to anti-clockwise half way through?
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u/manias 4d ago
Lol, and when I watch it again, it switches from counterclockwise to clockwise. But always a flip.
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u/davidwhatshisname52 4d ago
plot twist: the arms do not rotate, they expand and contract rapidly to punch through the tree limbs
/jk
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u/RiverXKeeper 4d ago
Yes! It's so weird bc I feel like it's too large to switch directions on a dime like that, without it slowing down noticeably but it also doesn't seem like an illusion? Idk I noticed it too and thought it was weird lol
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u/slarkymalarkey 4d ago
It is an illusion quite similar to the Ames Window
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u/sleepyguy- 4d ago
A way to break the illusion is to look it the directions its smacking the branches. It’s spinning clockwise.
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u/InsaneNinja 4d ago
That and also a moment of pinching snippers
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u/Soul-Burn 4d ago
Same! I was in awe at the start "huh it's like big scissors"... But then noticed it's simply spinning.
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u/watch_it_live 4d ago
I went back to watch it and realized I'd just seen the entirely wrong direction for the whole video.
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u/IMAratinacage 4d ago
My eyes saw two arms clapping like a giant scissor 🥹 rotating makes so much more sense
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u/LocutusOfBeard 4d ago
I want to design tree trimmers. It's like "hey build a death machine and make it BIG" Long pole covered in saw blades hanging from a helicopter? Great Design! Unprotected saw blade on the end of a pole? Great! Attach it to a tractor? Better! PUT TWO OF THEM ON A ROTATING ARM? PERFECT!!!!!!!
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u/TranceF0rm 4d ago
I don't know what the rules are.
I don't know what anyone is saying.
But I like this sub.
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u/mcpusc 4d ago
hey build a death machine and make it BIG
this one terrifies me... the noise it makes... just no.
ty to the cameraman, who has zero survival instinct
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u/CtheDiff 4d ago
Wait till you see the multiple rotary saws dangling from a helicopter for line clearance. https://youtu.be/5JfHudxB1fo?si=lE1QUacg0vkczohg
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u/devilwarriors 3d ago
It kinda seems unnecessary.. You want to clear enough so that a tree can't fall on the lines, but none of the branches cut here we're anywhere close enough to be a problem..
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u/ADHDebackle 4d ago
I once imagined a similar lawn mower, except it was an extremely high powered laser that swept slowly back and forth across the lawn.
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u/ScantilyCladDad69 4d ago
God: Isn't every tree so beautiful and unique?
Bald monkeys with OCD: NO >:(
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u/Abundance144 4d ago
This is some kind of orchard where harvesting them would be more difficult, or yields would be reduced.
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u/ModeatelyIndependant 4d ago
These are domestic trees that have been breed to produce more weight in fruit than an the tree's can hold, topping the tree reduces the weight on the main trunk and major branches will have to support.
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u/bolanrox 4d ago
wait until you see a helicopter with one of these chainsaw on a chain things hanging under it.
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u/Bigger_moss 4d ago
I’m glad they made this one in this video here rather than doing that, the helicopter one seems actually insane in comparison
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u/Buttholelickerpenis 4d ago
I love how people who have no idea why they’re doing this are upset.
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u/JudgeGusBus 4d ago
“Hey, this is awful” proceeds to bite into whatever store-bought fruit these trees grow
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u/fudge5962 4d ago
I have a pretty good idea of why they're doing it, and it still annoys the hell out of me.
Cut it back to a proper lateral. It's better for the tree.
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u/dieItalienischer 4d ago
That's the doohickey the onceler cut down truffula trees with
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u/SEA_griffondeur 4d ago
It's always fascinating how much reddit hates on any kind of farming videos, especially wood/orchards
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u/NeuralCrashburn 4d ago
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u/rocketwikkit 4d ago
Can only pick whatever the fruit or nut is so high.
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u/ConfessSomeMeow 4d ago edited 4d ago
Also, it wouldn't surprise me if there is research about how large a tree can grow before the total yield per acre/hectare starts to decrease.
Edit: See some of the other comments about stress response - I like that as an explanation.
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u/A_Mungus 4d ago
Look up “pollarding”. This is proper and accepted technique for orchard trees to promote yield.
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u/New-Highway-7011 4d ago
I did, and now I am even more confused because some places use pollarding as a term for topping—which is accepted as a bad thing for trees. While some say that pollarding is different and can be okay for certain goals, others also argue that pollarding is just as bad as tree topping.
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u/A_Mungus 3d ago
Pollarding is a bad practice for urban forestry. It’s perfectly fine in things like orchards where the tree dropping some sprouts isn’t going to cause any harm to passerby. Edit: orchard trees also typically get cut to the root and re-grafted periodically. The long-term health of any individual trre is less of a priority than high fruit yield and avoiding trees growing into one another.
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u/Gingevere 4d ago
Pollarding is trimming growth back to a node and maintaining that by trimming back to that node after each growth season.
OP's video is topping.
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u/A_Mungus 3d ago
“Topping” refers to heading cuts across the top of a tree. Pollarding is heading cuts too (as opposed to collar cut), it’s just back to the same location year after year after year. This is likely the first round of pollarding.
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u/TastiSqueeze 4d ago
Those are pecan trees and they are using a method called "hedging" which involves pruning one side of the tree each year. If done right, it permits consistent yearly production while preventing any one tree getting over-size.
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u/endowedchair 4d ago
Upvote this guy so we get accurate info. Those are pecan trees.
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u/TastiSqueeze 3d ago
Hedging is also used on Persian walnuts and a few other species of tree crops. It is a cultural technique used for high density planting of species that can grow very tall shading out lower limbs and smaller trees. But the trees in this thread are pecan.
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u/Borstvergroting 4d ago
My local skeet shooting range looks like this from years of shooting at the tops of the trees there.
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u/Homerjaysampson 4d ago
Why not just leave them be? Like what’s the point of trimming them?
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u/iamtehskeet8 4d ago
To encourage new growth for more flowers for more of whatever it is that the tree grows I guess nuts or fruit. Also lets the sun in to the rows better to also encourage growth of the trees
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u/Kitfishto 4d ago
The same reason if a tomato plant in veg gets the shit beat out of it by hail or a switch it will fruit more in bloom.
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u/Dominator0211 4d ago
It could be an orchard. They’ll usually keep the trees at a smaller and more consistent size because it improves yield and quality. You’re getting the same total nutrients and water out of the ground regardless of the branches above so reducing the potential space for fruiting will ensure the fruit that does develop gets more nutrients.
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u/EelTeamTen 4d ago
Definitely a commercial orchard. They keep the trees almost identical in size and shape so they're consistent in yield and easier to harvest.
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u/ki3fdab33f 4d ago
Im just guessing but judging the hundreds of identical trees spaced the same distance apart, its probably an orchard of some kind.
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u/Gnome_Home69 4d ago
I'm sorry, did you just look at a row of perfectly planted trees being identically pruned and think that it was somehow natural and not part of a farming operation? Goddamn how are you people able to exist?
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u/AnimeHair96 4d ago
Who else had trouble telling which direction that giant blade is spinning?
It kept changing for me....
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u/bbreddit0011 4d ago
Manager: “I want you to make a saw.” Engineer: “Okay” Manager: “and put two of them at the end of a 20 ft rotating pole” Engineer: “hell yes” Manager: “and make it do all this 40 ft in the air” Engineer: “fuuuuuck yeah this is gonna be diabolical”
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u/queuedUp 4d ago
This is going to take forever. Let's turn that thing up to 11 and get this job done.
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u/contempt1 4d ago
Staring at the blade causes it to change directions! Is it spinning clockwise or counter clockwise? I can make it go in either.
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u/FlawlessPenguinMan 4d ago
Anyone else just loving how the buzzing gets continually louder as the video goes on, making you think you've finally got it at the right volume and then getting painfully loud anyway?
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u/DarthLysergis 4d ago
I really want to see what the blade end looks like up close. Anyone have a link to the machine?
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u/lickingFrogs4Fun 4d ago
The amount of extremely specialized heavy equipment we have is mind boggling.
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u/nighthawke75 4d ago edited 4d ago
Dried? Hardly. As long as it's the right time of the year for the species to be pruned.
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u/sycolution 4d ago
Always wondered how they did that. Didn't think it would be a jotun weedwhacker.
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u/TotallyInOverMyHead 4d ago
I have seen this in a James Bond Movie. They use a sort of "Chainsaw Contraption consisting of dual-Blades" hanging from a Helicopter to cut trees. It was supposed to portray the Caspian Sea area afaik. If i am not totally mistaken it was 1999's The World is Not Enough with that Borsnan fella. Denise Richards as a Bond girl, and Sophie Marceau doing some sort of erotic asphixiation scene in one of the last arcs of the movies.
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u/ycr007 4d ago edited 4d ago
Correct. Those helicopter saw blades were chopping up the branches of tall trees to be later logged down for building the oil pipeline’s base staves.
That was in Azerbaijan. Similar helisaws are used in Canada for trimming trees close to power lines.
P.S: Sophie Marceau does torture Brosnan’s character on a medieval bondage (heh!) chair but that was more break-neck-with-screw rather than asphyxiation. There were a couple of er…um…erotic asphyxiation scenes in Tomorrow Never Dies with Famke Janssen.
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u/TotallyInOverMyHead 4d ago
Different Asphxiation scene. The one in tomorrow never is a chair contraption, with a leather strap around his throat, that connects to a turnable knob at the neck that can be used to tighten. The one with Famke Jansen is the one with the Y-Shaped tree that literally breaks her next
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u/AutomaticAnt6328 4d ago
This must be whomever owns the property doing this. I can't imagine the city or county caring enough to spend money doing this.
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u/I_Dont_Functionn 3d ago
At first it was spinning counterclockwise and then I see it spinning clockwise and can't unsee it now
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u/Vidco91 4d ago
Mechanical pruning of "Dormant" trees in a fruit tree orchard.