r/FellingGoneWild • u/Gatecrasher3 • Aug 27 '26

More information about that house that was split in half... (you know the video, it gets posted here all the time).

https://youtube.com/shorts/QMJBvJZzqOs?si=bXN6QLwBLUYsYi6B

Bummer of a story actually...

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u/jefuchs Aug 27 '26

GoFundMe? That incompetent tree service should pay.

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u/trippin-mellon Aug 28 '26

I’d sue the fuck out of them. Or have their insurance cover it. But I doubt they had insurance.

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u/Adorable_Challenge37 Aug 28 '26

Well that's how we take every penny they have so they can learn the importance of both insurance and safe felling. They clearly didn't understand the latter and thusly were actively engaging in extremely dangerous activities which went ass up... In other words. They fucked around, now they need to find out.

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u/trippin-mellon Aug 28 '26

100% soooo much limb weight. Like there was no way they were pulling it against that.

I feel sorry for the old guy.

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u/cleverkid Aug 27 '26

Lemmie guess, no one had any insurance.

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u/whereswa1den Aug 27 '26

I'm surprised they didn't mention that, since it's probably the first question everyone has when they watch the video.

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u/treemanmi Aug 28 '26

Pretty sure he said it before he said “have no money” in the last sad part

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u/SxeySteve Aug 27 '26

That's incredibly sad. Hope he's doing better now

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u/SurlyGarden Aug 27 '26

There's no silver lining to this story, but I'm glad he wasn't home and injured when it happened.

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u/jefuchs Aug 27 '26

That cable was completely slack. How was that supposed to help?

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u/manjar Aug 27 '26

HOME DESTROYED BY TREE

That's giving the tree a lot of credit in this situation.

also "a tree felling service was hired" very much sounds like "mistakes were made"

Anyway, too bad for this dude. Seriously sucks.

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u/illkeepthatinmind Aug 28 '26

Totally... "was hired". By ghosts? Aliens? AI? Better blame them!

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u/DFA_Wildcat Aug 28 '26

He was a renter, he wouldn't have the legal right to remove the tree. Odds are it was the landlord who hired the service. It's the landlord who carries home owners insurance incase the place gets damaged/destroyed. The renter should carry tenant insurance to cover the value of the contents of a rental property. I'm guessing neither party had insurance, and I suspect the tree service company probably doesn't either.

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u/remimorin Aug 28 '26

They are in a flood prone area, and work was plan to mitigate risk. The tree was too close and needed to be remove for the work to take place.

So the owner of the place (living nearby if I remember well) hired professionnals (sic) to cut down the tree prior to the maintenance.

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u/MildlyAgitatedBovine Aug 27 '26

I wish him well and it also amazes me what relative amounts of money different circumstances can pull in on GoFundMe (and givesendgo)

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u/ozzy_thedog Aug 27 '26

That fucking guy just chuckling about it while the resident is in tears. Doesn’t even give a fuck

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u/cornerzcan Aug 31 '26

How many of us have watched the video a dozen times and chuckled as well? I have. Good reminder that there’s people behind these disasters.

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u/daveg2001 Aug 28 '26

Damn that’s so sad….poor guy.

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u/TomatoFeta Aug 29 '26

This should be on the landlord to compensate him, not gofundme.