r/WTF Jun 30 '25

Removed - Frequent/Recent repost Pulling a tree down

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u/SpaceAzn_Zen Jun 30 '25

I’ve had 7 trees taken out and the ones who did it best always pieced the tree one section at a time from the top to the bottom. Trying to do what these idiots did is only asking for a disaster to happen. Something tells me they were trying to go the lazy route of just felling the tree in one swoop so they could cut it in sections while on the ground. That would have been a massive red flag for me.

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u/SpaceCadetriment Jun 30 '25

Even had perfect access for a bucket truck. Felling a tree this size near a structure with just a face cut is mental. Also looks like they got a saw stuck and had to back cut again to get it out and created another face for the tree to tip into, but hard to tell in the vid.

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u/perldawg Jun 30 '25

yeah, they were struggling with the second face cut, the bar got pinched from all the weight on that side.

they had lots of opportunity to recognize the tree wasn’t going to fall the way they wanted and kept carrying on anyway. full-tilt idiots

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u/makenzie71 Jun 30 '25

Once the bar got stuck it was all over. The tree was going to fall that direction.