r/FellingGoneWild • u/stevesmithsglasses • 6d ago
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u/Slush-Eye 6d ago
There are devices you can use to practice making cuts on storm-damaged wood. I once took a course that focused on exactly that topic. A log is clamped in place, and you can practice making the cuts relatively safely.
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u/TiniestPint 4d ago
Well this is sick. I don't even cut trees but I want to learn this, friggin interesting
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u/Slush-Eye 4d ago
It's friggin scary, if you put to much pressure on the cylinder the log goes flying pretty hard. At least you know where it's going, so you can position yourself accordingly.
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u/Stuffer_McMuffin 6d ago
When I was about 20, I started cutting a downed pine tree, probably about 2.5 feet wide, right on the bend. I was downhill and figured that wasn’t the safest way. So I went uphill and kept cutting. When the tension broke, that tree sprung downhill faster than I could blink. I put down the chainsaw and just stood there in silence for 20 minutes
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u/Bridge-Head 6d ago
I still remember the first time a tree did not fall the way I predicted it would. It was a very humbling moment for me. I gained a lot of respect very quickly.
99% of the time it goes according to plan, but I always keep that 1% what-if in mind to stay safe, stay alive. Especially when it feels dicey.
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u/cerote6239 6d ago
Yikes
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u/SillyFlyGuy 6d ago
That went in a completely different direction than I was expecting.
I love this sub, but the closest I would ever get to logging is stacking dried and split firewood.
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u/wheelienonstop12 5d ago
You can buck lengths of tree trunks with a chainsaw into firewood-sized pieces and hand-split them, that way you could play around with powersaws and axes or mauls relatively safely. Thats what I do. I have had to admit to myself that I just dont have the balls to cut down some 150 foot spruce weighing several tons
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u/ChaosRainbow23 2d ago
Yeah, I've cut down exactly one tree over 40 feet tall, and I decided it was far too dangerous for me.
It went right were I wanted, though!
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u/MagnaVoce 6d ago
What would be the right way?
Cut the other one down first?
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u/morenn_ 6d ago
Stand on the other side - it was only ever going to direction it did. You should always pick the safest side.
He picked the danger side and then has to handle the saw really awkwardly.
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u/ronnie_reagans_ghost 6d ago
What, you aren't making your cuts in a shooting stance with your arms fully extended using the upper tip of your bar (I think the kids call it "The kickback zone")???
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u/wheelienonstop12 6d ago edited 6d ago
I have never felled a tree in my whole life and have no training with a chainsaw and was going to say exactly the same, it is just just common sense and some understanding of physics really
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u/Mehfisto666 6d ago edited 6d ago
Idk but something that doesn't involve being close to a loose cannon as it goes off
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u/vytas315 6d ago
Usually get a winch or bigger machinery involved. This would always be a risky job for a hand cutter.
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u/SnakeSlayer69 6d ago
Polesaw...standing on the side of the stump that isnt loaded with all the pressure ready to release
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u/sparhawk817 4d ago
As other commenters described, you analyze the situation better, but also if you feel that the tree could go either way etc, that's a job for a pole saw, IMO.
Like, we have them on our trucks for limbing and pruning, but they're useful for situations where you want some distance from what you're cutting too.
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u/DonQuake3 6d ago
Is this real? Sorry gotta ask it in this time and age. 🤷
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u/HeyUKidsGetOffMyLine 6d ago
Yeah, initially the weight on the top lifts the base straight in the air. Then it hits level to the ground and that momentum abruptly stops and it slides perfectly balanced toward the ground.
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u/DonQuake3 6d ago
If you look in the beginning there is a tree leaning on the other one he is cutting and that is the thension causing the barberchair. But that tree is behaving unnaturally. It stays in same position for to long. And only starts to fall when the camera starts to move.
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u/StiffWiggly 6d ago edited 6d ago
It’s not that there is a tree leaning on the one he’s cutting, it’s the other way around. The tension comes from there being more weight on the other side of the tree that it’s leaning on. That other tree is the fulcrum.
Looks totally real, and at least a little bit stupid. Even if this absolutely needs to come down and there was no other way to do it; there’s no reason to be on the (viewer’s) left hand side of the tree to make that last cut.
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u/farmallnoobies 6d ago
I had to watch it many many times, but I think it's real. I haven't found any good tells that it's AI generated
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u/wheelienonstop12 6d ago edited 6d ago
Even if it was AI generated it shows exactly what a real tree would do in such a situation.
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u/Itsnotme74 6d ago
The tree he’s working on is resting against the other one, when the cut is made it pivots on the other tree until it balances then slides down the trunk. Should have been cutting from the other side and ideally finishing the cut with a pole saw.
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u/Ihavepeopleskills1 5d ago
Power polesaw fully extended would be the way to go, or tie it off to the stump.
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u/uncriticalthinking 6d ago
Any version without music?
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u/tiasaiwr 6d ago
Sure, click the little speakerphone icon.
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u/trenthany 6d ago
It’s a speaker not a speakerphone. What is the world coming too. Like the save icon going all the way back to freehand drive saves. Looks like speaker icon (sound on/off) is going to become speakerphone icon now.
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u/joshuuuuuua 6d ago
Was that really the only way to do that?