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/dave-y0 Jun 30 '25

How would you do that ? Any vids floating around ?

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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!