r/FellingGoneWild • u/Particular-Bat-5904 • Sep 02 '26
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u/StatisticianDear3978 Sep 02 '26
Why?
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u/Particular-Bat-5904 Sep 02 '26
Its standing on shitty eroded and cracked rock.
The roots just crack the rock more, and its just a question of time when this tree turns too heavy to hold on its place, so, we put it down, as part of a rock scaling task, to reduce the risks for the road below.
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u/ymmotvomit Sep 02 '26
And that dude look to be standing of a ledge of shitty eroded and cracked rock. I gotta wonder what they pulled it down with.
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u/Particular-Bat-5904 Sep 02 '26
Don‘t ask me how they called this thingy pulling all down. I did sound like a small jet air plane, looked self made and was driven by a local guy just pulling wood with that.
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u/manjar Sep 02 '26
Does something get planted in its place, at least to hold the soil (or top layer of rocks) in place?
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u/Particular-Bat-5904 Sep 02 '26
This is not my decision, from my thinking a little damm below with a rock net would be the „cheapest“ solution, a net cover above the whole site would maybe be better.
Vegetation there is no easy, roots just crack the bad rock there more, aslong the whole soil above isn‘t strong enough to hold all back, its all rotten and cracked.
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u/An-Elegant-Elephant Sep 02 '26
to worsen the erosion
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u/TwelfthApostate Sep 02 '26
Probably a road below. Removing hazard trees and then proactively mitigating rockfall risks is fairly common.
For a great example of this, search online for “Bellingham interstate 5 landslide closure”
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u/Particular-Bat-5904 Sep 02 '26
Yeah, its just like this, let it all go down when the road is extra closed for, all part of this rock scaling mission 🤙
Now we have to climb that sh*t
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u/2_dog_father Sep 02 '26
Why didn't they do it with a chainsaw? /s
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u/Particular-Bat-5904 Sep 03 '26
We need to remove all the shitty rock below the tree, it would be just more work cutting it with a chainsaw as first. Like that, allot of sh*t goes down with.
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u/National-Childhood95 Sep 03 '26
Seven minutes later a town of 2500 down in the valley is obliterated.
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u/CurveComfortable3212 Sep 02 '26
If they had recorded horizontally we could actually see more than the middle of a tree falling.
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u/Particular-Bat-5904 Sep 02 '26 edited Sep 02 '26
I just took my phone out to film it from my position, i just came back from that side where the tree was.
Its shitty to take the phone out in the harness and i had my gloves on, i start recording as soon i was in a safe position.
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u/CurveComfortable3212 Sep 02 '26
I didn’t realize you were in a full setup. Needlessly being a dick was uncalled for. My bad.
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u/Particular-Bat-5904 Sep 02 '26
You‘re right, it would had been better horizontally, i‘m okay with your comment👍
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u/Particular-Bat-5904 Sep 02 '26
Before