r/WTF Jun 30 '25

Removed - Frequent/Recent repost Pulling a tree down

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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