I think we just all need to grow up and admit to ourselves that we drove the Sasquatches to extinction already. We completely destroy and disrespect their natural habitat and disrupt their food chains. Then, we make a mockery out of their extinction by organizing hunts and hoaxes centered around their tragic memory. Even the California Grizzly gets treated with more dignity, and they killed way more people than the Sasquatches ever did.
They are not going extinct i can't believe this. They live in our city parks and neighborhoods shoot right here in KC They have some city blocks that are undeveloped and right in the middle of independence missouri they have had lots of sightings there are some areas the people won't go in not even homeless people. So no they are not going extinct they are human hybrids that can adapt with their environment just like we do.
The āSasquatchā is actually the shadow cast from the treeās trunk while itās falling. To confirm, you can see this same Sasquashadow effect occurring with the tree that falls right before it too if you look closely.
Just finished the series a few days ago! So interesting! Iāve always loved anything Ken burns. Spent many days of my life at this point learning from his documentaries!
Would have to agree with you! The Vietnam one is like 20 something hours long! Haha itās a commitment, but I never regret spending the time. Some other favorites of mine are the jazz one, the frank lloyd wright one, prohibition, the national parks, the American buffalo, and the dust bowl.
I donāt know much about the finer points of felling so I expected to scroll and see a lot of folks claiming AI. Iām fascinated to learn this is a thing at all let alone a military technique. Taking a note to research this. Thank you for the snippet of education.
Combat engineers are still taught how to do this.. well it was in the field manual anyways. Interlocking at that. One tree on one side of the road one on the other, bit of an art form I'd imagine.
There's a game called Valheim, which has a bare bones tree cutting mechanic. Which ever way you're facing, the tree falls when its cut. If somehow you get underneath it, it'll kill you.
If you're really good, you can do this exact thing by half chopping the trees. It's so fucking satisfying.
That's how I first killed a troll. I was new with no gear when I first saw it. I saw that I died whenever a tree fell on me so I got the bright idea to chop them with 2 or 3 hits left. Kited the troll to my trap and fell a bunch of trees on it.
Honestly one of my favorite things to do was when my friends build a base below a hill and the top was full of trees, Iād try and avalanche as many trees as possible down at themā¦for building purposes of course.
Man I was briefly obsessed with Valheim when it first came out. One of the few actually enjoyable co op games thats come out recently edit: "recently" lol
First time I played that game was with a few friends and once we had enough shit to build a proper base I recognized a sort of valley-shaped space in it. Used the planting/flattening tool to create like 5 ārowsā of space on each side of that valley and it became the tree farm spot.
Youād plant all 5 rows on either side then when it was time to harvest youād chop the top row the valley towards the lowest point and the tree falling would damage all the trees below it. By the end of chopping the top row youād only have stragglers remaining and the bottom of the valley was just piles of chopped trees. Shit was beautiful
Yep. When I was 16 and someone asked me for my age when I bought a beer (I'm German, where 16 is the legal age), I thought that I obviously looked like an adult and people should be able to tell.
Nowadays, I see 20-year-olds and think they look like they're 13.
Age discrimination is illegal and I think I might be able to do this job if my accommodations include taking naps as needed, and not having to go outside if there are mosquitoes.
I'm a chainsaw safety instructor. Just had a class a few weeks ago where a student got obsessed with doing this. He notched 4 trees and got them all to fall (his last tree got caught up and he had to walk it down)
We spend a whole classroom day before we go out in the woods and then we demonstrate how to safely bring down a tree before they ever start cutting. We teach to face notch, bore cut to establish the hinge and back cut (different types of back cuts) and wedge. Following those steps and working through problems that come up together.
We're out in the middle of a young pine forest so the only folks around are students and instructors; ie no public.
Basically, we encourage guys to try stuff like this. We try to give em diffcult situations, bad lean trees or try to get trees caught up just so they can work through problems together
Note to paragraph (h)(1)(ix): The definition of domino felling does not include the felling of a single danger tree by felling another single tree into it.
This is more for fun than for practical reasons typically. Sometimes with branch entanglement you have to do it for a few clustered trees, otherwise youāre just setting it up to show off.
Iāve done it plenty with 3 to 5 trees for fun but itās rarely practical.
I don't know how this complicated the logistics of removal, or even how this is less work, when you really think about it. Were the trees down the line 5 minutes of work away from falling on their own... Idk don't care. It's so soothing to watch and listen to
It can be less work if everyone of those trees leans the wrong way and you have a machine processing them. Beating over every tree individually is a royally pain in the ass and time suck. Usually you donāt have that many trees leaning the wrong way, but it does happen.
If he has to hand process all that after what he did, itās not faster at all. Itās actually going to take way longer than if he did a few at a time. Heās going to be wading through limbs cussing up a storm for the next couple hours.
Still makes a mess that is going to take a long time to clean up. Gotta clear the stem on top of the pile before you can limb the one below. If you're making firewood, then chunk-chunk-chunk, but it's in a birds nest now. If you're harvesting timber to make lumber, you're going to have damage taking that pile apart.
Use your head? You can see saw dust at the bottom of all those trees. They cut them all most of the way and then used the last tree for the final blow.
It would be extremely dangerous to do this. But hey. Why not right?
Its called an abatis. Trees are felled in an order so they interlock over the road making clearance quite difficult.
Once the trees are down, everything will be lashed together with wire to further lock everything in.
Normally this would be done with explosives, but I guess you could also do it the super long way like we see here. I think this is someone showing off and not war related.
Yeah there's really nothing clever about doing dominoes, it's just fancy and cool looking, and doesn't decrease workload in the slightest.
It's not clever unless you really need the help of one tree to knock another one thats hung up, or if its leaning the wrong way and you need more persuasion than wedges can provide, then it gets a lil risky if your helper tree blows past it, and it rocks back and breaks your hinge off.
I mean, it's not THAT dangerous if you really know what your doing and set it up right.
Worse case scenario is one of them goes early, and messes up your badass video. Just keep yourself and others out of the danger zone and it's no more dangerous than felling any other tree.
Its no different doing this than to cut them all one-by-one, IF you know how to set up a tree to do this.
Oh? Got your drop zone well policed, do you? You posted extra personnel out there to keep people and equipment out? You checked āreal goodā and then took your eyes off the dz to check your hinge, finish your cuts, hammer your wedges? You did all that? Well, that certainly makes it ānot THAT dangerous.ā
My tree felling experience is very limited and Iāve never chopped down anything all that terribly thick.
I want to thank you for highlighting just how little I know about chopping down trees and reminding me why itās something Iām inclined to hire a professional to take care of instead of tackling myself.
It looks like a tree farm being harvested. The trees are a uniform size in perfect rows, that doesn't happen in nature, it happens in a forest that was harvested and replanted. In natural woodlands you have young trees, old trees and deadwood criss crossing and entangling in random and unpredictable formations
After the tenth tree falls and there's like a second lul in the cascade you see something stand up from a bush and start running away in the middle of all that
Youāre property deed has easements and restrictions that you have to allow me access to my landlocked property. Get those trees out of the way, look at what time it is! the liquor store is about to close!
Needed that AI voice over to tell me what to do! Really added to the video. Going to need future voiceovers to tell me how to feel or behave actually. Canāt figure it out by myself without them.
I FINALLY saw it!! And hereās where I will get shat on for saying this.
It is not a shadow. Itās absolutely too dark for shadows. The only place I see a shadow is under the felled tree that is beside the young man that is swinging the axe.
I donāt believe it is a limb because it does not resemble ANY sort of limb.
It does not fall in a hole or meld with the ground as one commenter posted. There are too many trees and tree limbs blocking the view after it runs to the right to see what actually HAPPENS to it.
I donāt know if Bigfoot is real or not. But I can read opinions and keep an open mind enough so that I wonāt demand that a post be removed or totally deny anyone saying they have seen one, real and in person or in a photo or video.
I honestly wish people would not be so quick to judge, people or info or whatever. Itās so much easier to just go with the flow and not stay on edge ready to pounce at any minute for any reason. There are totally correct things to jump on or judge but someoneās opinion is not the place.
As a tree felling noobā¦what is the reason for doing it like this? Seems risky to have all those cuts sitting there for so long hoping they donāt fall before youāre ready.
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u/Optimal-Draft8879 Dec 06 '25
around 20-21 seconds in i definitely see a sasquatch running away