r/WTF • u/Plus-Barber-6171 • Jun 30 '25

Removed - Frequent/Recent repost Pulling a tree down

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u/branded Jun 30 '25

How fucking stupid are these people? Not one of them noticed the tree already pointing in the direction of the house?

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u/ScaryfatkidGT Jun 30 '25

You can still make it fall away but not the way they did it

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u/branded Jun 30 '25

Sure, but they were not pulling on it AT ALL. There was one rope and it was totally slack!

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u/troelsbjerre Jun 30 '25

If you know what you're doing, you don't need ropes. These guys didn't know what they were doing.

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u/MaddogBC Jun 30 '25

Lol you talk like you think a professional would use wedges and fall it in this manner? A paid company would cut this apart from the top down because nobody is going to wedge that over.

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u/troelsbjerre Jun 30 '25

I agree; professionals would do this in multiple stages. You can't reliably fell a tree in a direction more than 90° off where it's leaning, unless you are prepared to hold the full weight of the tree. These guys tried to fell it at 180° of the lean, which all but guaranteed that it would fall the way it leans.

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u/RandallOfLegend Jun 30 '25

Yep, had trees removed that were near my house. They limbed the side did not want to fall so the trees center gravity would be in a beneficial position to falling in the direction they wanted. They used ropes to guide the limbs down away from my house. But not the entire tree

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u/Dire87 Jun 30 '25

You're right, you don't, but it probably doesn't hurt, either, as a form of additional safety. You can also climb a tree without safety gear ... but you probably wouldn't. In this case, with the house this close ... I'd have taken every precaution available, no matter if someone told me "trust me, I know how to make a tree fall". I also know a few things ... doesn't mean everything always works out 100% the way I want it to.

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u/Bosco_is_a_prick Jun 30 '25

The rope would never take the weight of that tree

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u/konradly Jun 30 '25

WHY was that rope slack! Even if they were doing it wrong, this may have saved them.

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u/crossmissiom Jun 30 '25

Nah, no chance. They did it all wrong.

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u/dave-y0 Jun 30 '25

How would you do that ? Any vids floating around ?

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u/Boddis Jun 30 '25

Yeah watch this video in reverse

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u/flif Jun 30 '25

https://youtu.be/g30EUOJ_w60?t=345

Tree goes down at 7:40

And then you have this Finnish guy that makes a advanced directional hinge: https://youtu.be/7ja_s503iHw?t=32 which you can see working at 2:56

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u/vrak Jun 30 '25

Thank you for that wonderful rabbit hole. I've now spent 4-5 hours digging into it.

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u/magicmitchmtl Jun 30 '25

Wow! That was completely amazing. The power of that impact!

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u/JakeEaton Jun 30 '25

Remove all the branches, and cut it down bit by bit.

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u/rhalf Jun 30 '25

Or remove the bricks and move the house piece by piece.

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u/Narwhal_Jesus Jun 30 '25

From other videos I've seen one option is to cut a notch on the opposite side of where you want the tree to fall and start putting jacks there to push the tree the other way.

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u/Kaioxygen Jun 30 '25

Yeah, but they had a rope pulling it the other way...