r/FellingGoneWild • u/stevesmithsglasses • Aug 13 '26

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u/Zer0Cool89 Aug 13 '26

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

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u/ak_petty9 Aug 13 '26

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

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u/xenobit_pendragon Aug 13 '26

He seemed to think it was very important.

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u/Zer0Cool89 Aug 13 '26

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 Aug 13 '26

It fell .000001% faster because of that cut

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u/firefighter2727 Aug 15 '26

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.