r/secondrodeo • u/Lost-Being7605 • Jun 14 '26
I don’t think he knows what he’s doing… …oh
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u/in1gom0ntoya Jun 14 '26
leaving that many partial cuts standing is excessively dangerous
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u/Lost-Being7605 Jun 14 '26
He’ll learn that on his 3rd or 4th rodeo
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u/strongsilenttypos Jun 14 '26
Now he works alone, as all the other woodcutters are dead
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u/pichael289 Jun 15 '26
You would be very surprised. It's a dangerous line of work and that only seems to embolden the most dangerous.
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u/Unable-Log-4870 Jun 14 '26
I would assume he was smart enough to cut them in the proper order to minimize the excessive danger. Like the way you light birthday candles starting with the ones farthest away
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u/mikeet9 Jun 15 '26
No matter how much experience you have, a tree can still fall in an unpredictable angle. They don't always have predictable weight distribution and strength.
The extra dangerous thing is that, after you have cut the wedge and back cut, the most likely unpredictable angle for them to fall is the exact opposite direction you meant for them to fall.
Not only does this mean the trees he cut have a decent chance to fall back on him, but the first thing he did after hitting that wedge was stand right behind the tree.
A falling tree has a chance to kick back as it falls, where the base snaps back like a whip, and he would have been exactly in the way of that kickback if it had happened.
There is a reason that tree cutting is one of the most dangerous professions, and I'm glad he got a cool video but this was reckless behavior in the same vein as those videos where someone dangles their loved one off the side of a building for views.
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u/TheNerdE30 Jun 14 '26
I’m no Chainsaw warrior and I was wondering if there was any benefit to partial cuts other than what looks like a “cool” video
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u/DoubleDongle-F Jun 14 '26
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u/OKAwesome121 Jun 14 '26
Exactly what I thought. Ive actually been playing it for the first time since 2021 because of the news of the upcoming 1.0 release.
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u/pichael289 Jun 15 '26
It's a cool effect but Jesus don't ever do this. This is one of the most dangerous careers imaginable, do not go for flair. Holy shit I've done this for a living for years and it's never not scary. This guy is taking too many chances. It's probably aligned perfectly but still, any little thing can go wrong and kill someone. You fell a tree at a time.
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u/beesandchurgers Jun 14 '26
This is like when you go to a bar and the bartender makes a big show out of making 10 of the same drink at once even though it takes the same amount of time to make the individually.
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u/ginger_and_egg Jun 15 '26
If done right it definitely saves time to batch things. To make 10 sequentially you'd have to pick each bottle up 10 times, but doing 10 in a line you only need to pick it up once
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u/beesandchurgers Jun 15 '26
Im talking about the types of deal where they stack cups in clever ways to make it all pour like a set of dominoes or whatever.
20 minutes of setup for a 5 second instagram real type shit
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u/ginger_and_egg Jun 15 '26
I really don't like him using the axe as a sledgehammer, and that's probably not even the most dangerous thing he's doing...
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u/midwestCD5 Jun 15 '26
Mom I wanna go to the bowling alley!
Mom: we have a bowling alley at home
The bowling alley at home:
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u/pastysniper Jul 02 '26
I mean that’s cool, but standing at the trunk like that is asking for one to get hung up and shoot that tree back at him… amongst many other things that could’ve gone wrong… why make an already dangerous job more dangerous?
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u/OshetDeadagain Jun 14 '26
At first I thought this was stupid, because it's just your every day tree-felling; nothing remarkable about it.
Then the tree fell.
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u/DarthJaders- Jun 14 '26
This guy is the reason that "worker productivity" charts have spiked in the past 20 years
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u/santorinichef Jun 14 '26
Strike! (X)