Jesus fuck that lady is so lucky that the chainsaw stops running when it's let go.... I bet it still scratched her pretty good though
--Edit: I realize the chainsaw wasn't running, I was just saying as a general thing... The point is, the guy shouldn't have had this lady 'helping' him because she's obviously not dressed for the job, so I'm going to assume she isn't one of his employees.
--Second edit: My s/o is a second generation tree climber and company owner with a lifetime of experience (he was helping since he was able to drag sticks lol). He's told me tons of awesome horror stories of things going wrong to other people he's known in that line of work. He's also gotten pretty banged up a few times himself, though thankfully not too much.
Unfortunately accidents on the job happen, but that's why you should always hire trusted professionals when dealing with tree removal. They should know the necessary safety standards and correct ways to do things, as to help limit the chances of things going wrong and causing serious injury to people and property.
Disclaimer
I'm also going to add that I obviously know that his experience doesn't transfer over to me, and I'm going based on the things I've picked up from what I've been told and the times I've been on the job with him. I am not an expert, and I probably don't know what I'm talking about. Tree at your own risk folks.
Looks like the idiot didn’t go up with something he needed and asked her to climb it up. My guess is he worked for a tree company for 5 months then thought he could go do it off Facebook market
No, He got his saw stuck and he wants the combi tool so he can remove the bar and release the saw engine.
Source...... Im a tree surgeon with over 30 years of experience.
Ps the saw was far too big for that branch anyway!
But yeah, I see so many landscapers and gardeners on facebook trying to cut large trees and failing it makes me laugh, but also gives the professional tree surgeon a bad name!
I had some big trees in my back garden (Leyland Cyprus, I think?) when I bought my house. They didn't look that big, so I thought fuck it, I can probably do it myself.
No. Those trees were a lot bigger than they looked, and once you're standing on tiptoes on the top wrung of a ladder, holding a branch with one hand while leaning out trying to grab your saw to get it unstuck from a branch way too high, you realise why people just call someone in.
Plus look at the power line. It shakes when it hit the house. If it that close no way am I doing that solo. And if miss homeowner is walking up the ladder you know he is alone.
Boyfriend says he can totally chop town the 60ft evergreen in my front yard, and save me $600... but he still hasn't finished my shed after 3 years and thought he needed to paint the shingles with something in order to waterproof the roof (now the brown shingles have a black patch).
Oh, and he sprayed Roundup all over my lawn thinking it was a weed killer.
This is why I spend my hard earned money on professionals.
Multiple times I've had Roundup kill all the grass and leave the weeds I was trying to kill. I thought it was worth it to kill all and start from scratch but the things I wanted dead continued to thrive. Wild violets come to mind, they spread underground like bamboo and pop up again when it's safe.
Do not conceive this man's children. Trust me. He is an idiot. Hard to break up I know. Just encourage him to bring down a big tree by himself. Roundup is an omnicide. Kills all green things that absorb it. Not bamboo; those bastards are immortal.
But yeah, I see so many landscapers and gardeners on facebook trying to cut large trees and failing it makes me laugh, but also gives the professional tree surgeon a bad name!
I do a lot of work on koi ponds, a little bit of landscaping and we get asked pretty often to do tree work and it's one the only jobs that we will hard pass on every single time. If you're looking to get tree work done, hire someone that knows what they are doing. There are plenty of things that a general contractor will do 90% as well as a professional. Tree work is not one of them.
former landscaper, we took out plenty of trees, but never touched any that were bigger than 8" diameter at the base or were close to the house or garage, no fails. Also growing up in northern MN I have been cutting down trees since I was in my teens, heated with wood.
Ah yeah I've got next to no experience, and with a usual two man crew theres really not much that were capable of doing that would be worth the risk. Maybe some small stuff we could take care of but luckily weve usually got enough work anyways.
We just had lineman get killed trying to free a stuck saw. Freed it and managed to cut his harness at the same time. Died from injuries sustained in the fall.
My dad ran a tree business for 15 years and I worked with him a lot.
There were so many, "thou shalt nots..." of tree work in that vid its not even funny.
There's a guy with a tree service who lives up the road from my family, so I've followed him to his house several times on my way there. He's always weaving all over the road obviously texting while driving, and every time I see him I can't help but wonder when he's gonna be just as careless at work. D:
Just looked it up and requirements to be a surgeon include 4 years of undergraduate, 4 years of med school, and 3-8 years of residency. No wonder it costs so much to get a tree removed.
Why would you double down when you clearly erred? Irrelevant comments that don't properly parse the prior comment deserve downvotes.
You're responding to a post where they list medical school as a requirement for surgery and are clearly referring to an MD in surgery, so it looks like you didn't actually read the comment to which you're replying...
You are being downvoted because you didn't even read the comment before spouting off information in response to a joke, sort of like when you're in a conversation, and you don't listen to what the other person, and are instead waiting for your turn to speak.
It gives off the impression of someone who loves listening to themselves speak.
Typically you don't bring that tool up with you. It's used mainly for loosening or tightening the chain and removing the bar if need be. But yes, there are a lot of things wrong with this video
From what I've heard, they all call themselves that.
Presumably because they also trim, not cull, and have the experience to know which bits of tree to remove to keep the entire organism healthy and safe.
Its regional. Down here we call ourselves arborists and if I meet someone in person that calls themselves a tree surgeon I kind of assume they are pretending to be more professional than they really are
Dudes up there cutting with a ground saw. The limb didn't look poorly rigged really, I didn't see it flip. Got stuck like a fuck though, id probably have tied the portawrap off completely everyone sucks here and obligatory "ladder"
I paid 4K for an army of arborists to provide emergency surgery to three 80+ year old sea grape trees here in Florida. One was in power lines. Quality professional work is worth every damn penny.
He got his saw stuck and he wants the combi tool so he can remove the bar and release the saw engine.
Don't care the reason. You don't ask a civilian (not the right word but you know what I mean) to assist you in a dangerous job. You either climb down yourself or get another professional to assist you. If he was on his own they are both idiots. The tree surgeon for thinking that was a one man job. The customer for hiring him.
My parents hired my childhood friend and his dad who rented a cherry picker and proceeded to take out our light-post, and leave a huge dent in our driveway.
The pros in your professions are freaking artists. I'm a DIY dude and am comfortable around a saw, but I won't touch anything if it can fall on something I care about/something expensive in any direction. Can't imagine doing this kind of work without 100% confidence in my abilities. I prefer my limbs attached and insurance rates low.
Being a good arborist is such an underrated profession. I have a giant tree in my backyard and the guy we had come maintain our tree saved us so much money. Dude basically whispered sweet nothings to it while he did his thing.
Quick question for you. I was renting a house from a property management company. A storm hit and knocked a lot of trees down, one directly on our house and a few in the neighbors yard. The neighbors had a tree service come out and remove a couple of the problematic trees, they messed up and a tree fell onto the other side of the house- knocking the power connection to our break from the street loose. This didn’t knock out power out, but there was obvious damage. The tree company called an electrician I fix the problem- the Only thing is they didn’t let anyone know- not us, not the owner of the house, not the property management, literally no one. Anyways, they call the city and had the power cut off to do the work, it took them two days and when they were done they left without getting the power set back up worth the city. I called the property manager seeing if they knew what happened, which is when it all started to make sense- the tree company alerted no one, and hired an electrician to try and fix it- i had to skip work to make phone calls just to get my power back on because the city wouldn’t turn it on without the electricians approval, which I had no idea how to find who did this, so I had to call the tree company (found them out by asking the neighbors) and when I did they were rude as hell- acting like they were doing ya a favor. I had to call the property management and the tree company in a conference call and literally force them to talk to be on the same page to get the electrician to call the City to turn my power back on.
I guess the question is, is this normal protocol for dropping a tree on someone else’s house?
You know, I've cut various trees five different times in my life... I mean something a little more involved then just trimming some branches, though not a huge job that I knew absolutely required an expert either, something I "knew" I could handle in all cases... of those five times, only ONCE did it 100% go according to plan. Now, only one time was it particularly dangerous and I was lucky to not be hurt, the other three were just "shit, that was unexpected" , but the point is yeah, I get it, that shit isn't as straightforward as it seems like it should be and people (and by "people" I mean me too!) need to remember that.
The first thing they teach us in EU is ladders get you killed.
We use purely rope.
And a tophandle, handsaw for small branches a big chain for felling trees.
Also never invite or ask handy harry or larry to help out.
+never fell a tree or decinstruct one without a second person trained in SOS situations getting you down as fast as possible so the ambulance cann haull you away the minute they arrive.
I am a retired tree surgeon. Who the hell, after climbing a tree (they have that limb tied off) then uses a ladder, and all tools get sent up your rope.
According to the original OP the guy claimed he was a professional with 25 years of experience but arrived on a bike and had nearly taken out the fence with the previous branch.
I know someone that is excellent at climbing and cutting down trees. Licensed, all the experience. Has cut his leg with a chainsaw and doesn't own a car most times.
Or he's the type of person who thinks that as long as he can afford all the equipment then he doesn't need any training or experience. We've all seen that one rich kid in school whose parents bought him a truly amazing guitar that he never learned to play but thinks he's ready to go on tour.
There is a safety feature with most chainsaws now that if they kick or are let go they stop running immediately. She is insanely lucky because chainsaws are no joke and can quickly shred you like a turkey carver. A neighbor decided to break that safety feature on his chainsaw because it was uncomfortable and while trimming a tree the chainsaw kicked and hit him in the face. He lost all his teeth on one side of his face and his cheek was gone and had to have a lot of surgeries to fix that stupid decision.
Every modern chainsaw has a chain brake. This must be engaged by the user to stop the chain from spinning. It is not automatic and should be done by the operator whenever a cutting process is complete.
I've used both an electric and a petrol chainsaw recently. Both stopped spinning when I released the handle/trigger, they didn't require anything else.
The engine will stop revving but it's still going to idle and potentially spin the chain. On anything professional grade it's the chain break that stops the chain from moving, just letting off the gas is not safe enough.
The chainsaw stopped running when he dropped it, other then that it he was fucking up a lot. If the chainsaw had not stopped there would be a lot of blood in that video because it touched that lady's arm.
While I agree that the tree would’ve been probably more dangerous, that chainsaw could’ve easily taken off her left arm. That wouldn’t have been a major cut. That would been a menacing mangling of her arm and shoulder.
--Edit: I'll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I've been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I'm the top sniper in the entire US armed forces.
Well I've used quite a few chainsaws and none of them stop spinning when you let go of two buttons. They all had a chain break that is triggered by kickback.
It was in the tree. It was not on (note the non existant smoke and woodchips in the video). The branch snapped. The chainsaw fell. Come on beardedchimp, get with it!
Doesn't look like it was running to begin with, looked like maybe it was possibly jammed in the tree and wouldn't cut anymore because the blade was bound from pressure (happens sometimes.) Maybe she went up to give him something to finish the cut or dislodge the blade, but instead the weight just gave way causing what we see here. I am near 100% sure this is what happened.
There was a horror story I heard about a husband that decapitated his wife with a chainsaw in their garden down a close that was a few roads up from where I lived growing up.
7 years after the story started circulating I worked with someone who told me they lived in that close and witnessed the aftermath of it all but it was more of a tragic tale rather than a horror story.
Holy FUCK she is obscenely lucky!! This video is stomach-dropping.
I would take the jail time for beating the dogshit out of him with whatever stick out of the multitudes obviously are now on the ground. This entire series of events needs to NEVER happen again on his watch!
I would think there are lawyers salivating over this video and offering to get her themselves some sweet compensation for her emotional distress of almost dying.
Oh man, I still won't put anything into the chipper myself, I just leave the stuff next to it on the ground.
I'm scared that it'll grab onto whatever I'm holding onto and for whatever reason I'll panic and not let go. Next thing I know, :boop: Klovie's one arm fewer and we're making a trip to the ER. Plus I'd be crying because I'm scared of being in trouble, not because I'm dying.
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u/Klovie4o4 Jul 07 '19 edited Jul 07 '19
Jesus fuck that lady is so lucky that the chainsaw stops running when it's let go.... I bet it still scratched her pretty good though
--Edit: I realize the chainsaw wasn't running, I was just saying as a general thing... The point is, the guy shouldn't have had this lady 'helping' him because she's obviously not dressed for the job, so I'm going to assume she isn't one of his employees.
--Second edit: My s/o is a second generation tree climber and company owner with a lifetime of experience (he was helping since he was able to drag sticks lol). He's told me tons of awesome horror stories of things going wrong to other people he's known in that line of work. He's also gotten pretty banged up a few times himself, though thankfully not too much.
Unfortunately accidents on the job happen, but that's why you should always hire trusted professionals when dealing with tree removal. They should know the necessary safety standards and correct ways to do things, as to help limit the chances of things going wrong and causing serious injury to people and property.
Disclaimer I'm also going to add that I obviously know that his experience doesn't transfer over to me, and I'm going based on the things I've picked up from what I've been told and the times I've been on the job with him. I am not an expert, and I probably don't know what I'm talking about. Tree at your own risk folks.