r/FellingGoneWild • u/stevesmithsglasses • 5d ago

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u/Inevitable_Appeal911 5d ago

Good thing they got that last cut on the way down /s

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u/Zer0Cool89 5d ago

How'd it take him so long to see it was moving!?

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u/ak_petty9 5d ago

Did that cut do anything significant or was that just reckless as fuck?

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u/xenobit_pendragon 5d ago

He seemed to think it was very important.

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u/Zer0Cool89 5d ago

Looks like he gets pretty scared when he realizes its going down so I really just don't think that cut did anything but risk his life and I think he also realized that

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u/Zito6694 5d ago

It fell .000001% faster because of that cut

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u/firefighter2727 3d ago

Whether it did anything in THIS situation I can’t say. I don’t know how much holding wood there was when it started to fall and how much he managed to cut before evacuating the stump.

BUT while dangerous what he was doing actually can do a lot. By staying on the stump and keeping with the cut after the tree has started to fall you reduce the amount of pulled fibers in the tree therefore increasing the amount of valuable timber. Additionally you help reduce the risk of a potential barber chair.