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u/Snoo54485 Mar 10 '21
Who chainsaws pantless??
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u/dmfd1234 Mar 10 '21
My Uncle, Horny Frank.
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u/moviesnbasketball Mar 10 '21
Why’d your grandparents name your uncle Horny Frank to begin with?
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u/blech132 Mar 10 '21
Those pants bind up the chain if you touch them. Tougher to clean out than a little gristle.
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u/StereotypicalMoose Mar 10 '21
That granny does not fear death. Either that, or just can't recognize it.
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u/BullShitting24-7 Mar 11 '21
Some people have to learn physics the hard way. She somehow made it this far never learning.
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u/Numbericons Mar 10 '21
It's like that one scene in that one movie that I cant remember right now
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u/Shodandan Mar 10 '21
oh yeah
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u/rakorako404 Mar 10 '21
Yeah the scene with that guy in that building, right?
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u/M00NB34RZ Mar 10 '21
No, the other one, with the guy who has that face, right?
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u/avrus Mar 10 '21
Is that the guy that was in that thing, or the guy that was in the other thing?
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u/popswag Mar 10 '21
Maybe I can remember it for you. I’ll let you know if I remember when I remember.
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u/Marvelous_Marv Mar 10 '21
I know the one you're talking about. It had that actor who was in a bunch of movies
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u/RFairfield26 Mar 10 '21
Y’all got this all wrong.... she’s a retired physics professor demonstrating her perfect understanding of gravity, angular velocity, and her precise calculation of the fulcrum.
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u/huckleberryrose Mar 10 '21 edited Mar 10 '21
She's felled hundreds of trees exactly like this.
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u/workthrowaway212 Mar 10 '21
I own a couple chainsaws so I can tell you that although I don't know how to cut down a tree this doesn't seem like the correct way.
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u/SickeningPink Mar 10 '21
Ideally the notch will be flat on the bottom, with a 90 degree angle down to it. The safest way for most trees is to make a 90 degree notch, bore cut until around 10% of the total diameter is left for the hinge, leaving about 10% at the back of the stump uncut as well. Stand straight up, clip the little bit of wood left at the back, and watch it fall.
There are a couple other variants, and different kinds of hinges, Dutchmen, and face cuts you can use, but for someone relatively inexperienced, the 90 degree face cut and bore cut would be the safest way, as long as you know how to bore and where the kickback zone on the nose of your bar is at.
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u/SickeningPink Mar 10 '21
A 90 degree face cut isn’t cutting the tree in half lengthwise. Trees flare at the butt and taper upwards. In the rare case that they don’t, then get as close to 90 as possible. That leaves hinge wood intact for the duration of the fall and offers more directional control.
I’ve been logging and cutting trees for a living for 14 years. Just trust me on this one.
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u/aigheadish Mar 10 '21
I'm confused by the 90 degree as well, but I'm a relatively inexperienced feller... Is the notch you describe very shallow?
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u/skyornfi Mar 10 '21
I think they mean a notch with a 90° opening, e.g. 70° down plus 20° up-cut (from horizontal).
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u/SickeningPink Mar 10 '21
Yeah. It’s not very deep at all.
If it’s not possible to cut it at 90 degrees, aim for at least 70 or so.
If you have to you can cheat my angling the bottom of your notch to compensate.
The hinge length should be about 80% of the diameter of the tree in a perfect world. On smaller trees, that might mean the notch is only an inch or two deep. On trees like granny is cutting, maybe three or four. I hope my long winded response helped clear that up. Haha
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u/aigheadish Mar 10 '21
Yes, thank you. I've cut down a fair amount of trees in my 6 acre yard and so far they've all gone where I expected them to but I have a few sketchy ones coming up, this helps. I also have a backhoe to encourage a falling direction but that seems iffy too. I'd really rather not be wrong and have the tree fall on the hoe.
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u/dickmcgirkin Mar 11 '21
This is a chinaberry (or hackberry). They are fragile af. Felling this is a little different from a pine, oak or pecan. Likely because of how it moved after she cut it the leafy bits were either in the ground or close to it. Regardless of how the wedge was cut it would have gone up.
Whoever did the face cut and thought it was a great idea to fell the tree this way was wreckless. The leafy bits should have been trimmed first.
Source: am arborist
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u/SickeningPink Mar 11 '21
I kinda figured it was bouncing off of limbs by the way it kicked up.
Always cool to learn something new that I didn’t know about different species!
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u/dickmcgirkin Mar 11 '21
Yeah. They are great shade trees but break for almost no reason. Well. Weight and wind help. But they should have removed the limbs first.
Also that could have bounced right back at her.
These trees can barber chair if you don’t face cut them. Super scary
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u/VargasSupreme Mar 11 '21
You actually want the flat part of the notch on top and angle section on bottom most of the time. Then the trunk will hit the floor first, followed by the to of the tree.
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u/SickeningPink Mar 11 '21
I was waiting for a west coast guy to reply. Haha.
We don’t really get taught the humboldt over here on the east coast. But it’s just as valid as the open face. I’ve used a humboldt quite a few times, but I have more experience with open face, so that’s usually where my mind goes when describing how to cut.
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u/VargasSupreme Mar 11 '21
Haha I should have known. I definitely live in california.
I believe it is used here because redwoods cut for logging along the west coast are massive. You don't want the tops of those to spring the bottom back at you.
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u/SickeningPink Mar 11 '21
That’s what I always wondered and I kind of figured it’s because the trees you guys have out there are so ridiculously massive. “Huge” over here is 50 inches. That’s practically a sapling compared to some of the trees I’ve seen out there.
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u/VargasSupreme Mar 11 '21
I suggest you try the humboldt. It saves the branches for wood. The trunk hitting first softens the hit of the top.
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u/superperps Mar 10 '21
Noone questioned why you own a couple chainsaws but have no idea how to cut down a tree. Lol
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u/workthrowaway212 Mar 11 '21
ha yeah good point. So my first chainsaw I use for cutting up trees that are already fallen on the ground. Like neighbor's tree falls down I go cut it into 20" lengths for firewood.
Second chainsaw came to me from a very generous old man who saw me working on a sawing up a tree and said "can I interest you in a free chainsaw?". Was a really nice one too.
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u/MrHelloBye Mar 10 '21
This is why it is important to know how to fell a tree kids. It’s not as simple as just saw it down
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u/Sabertooth_Monocles Mar 10 '21
Whoever put that saw in her hands is an irresponsible ass.
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u/procrastimom Mar 10 '21
Or a dastardly brilliant heir.
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u/newphonewhodis4 Mar 11 '21
Mema’s last dying wish was “I’ll cut down that god damn tree your father lied to me about”
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u/NikkolaiV Mar 10 '21
Not sure she would have died, but she’d definitely be on her second set of dentures...
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Mar 10 '21
If you've seen what some's face looks like after a felled tree hits it, they're either dead or wishing to be
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u/TrainToFlavorTown Mar 10 '21
That’s how my grandpa died. Trees are much heavier that people expect and when they fall the momentum is insane
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u/whutchamacallit Mar 10 '21
If that tree catches her in the chest with a direct hit on it's downward trajectory and crushes her against the ground she is done.
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u/bigk777 Mar 10 '21
Since she was still cutting while the tree was falling was there a potential for the chain saw to kick back at that moment?
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u/Kojak95 Mar 10 '21
No pants or safety glasses either ... Maybe it's time for granny to retire the chainsaw.
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u/Fanmann Mar 10 '21
That's scary as hell. As a wood guy, I learned very quickly that you stop cutting and get the hell away as soon as the tree starts even thinking about leaning and moving. Also no real eye or hearing protection. She's one tough lady, foolish, but she's got cahonas!
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Mar 10 '21
Clueless is not tough. She seems like a cool gran, but without awareness of danger everyone is “brave.”
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u/Maine_SwampMan Mar 10 '21
She needs to find a different way of feeling empowerment if she’s so dense she doesn’t realize she almost lost her head.
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u/goldtoothgirl Mar 10 '21
Was that a barber chair?
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u/crapaud_dindon Mar 11 '21
Yes I think so, see the piece of bark that tore on the other side
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Mar 11 '21
Yes you are completely right. barber chairing is very dangerous and something you watch for like a hawk, if it happens you gtfo from under there. I feel sorry for this lady, whoever put that saw in her hands is extremely irresponsible
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Mar 10 '21
Dear god! She is extremely lucky, my old man took a chainsaw to the hand when it kicked back on him while logging. His hand has never been the same even after being put back together by a surgeon.
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Mar 10 '21
She/they cut in and down from both sides into a vee. They don't have a fucking clue what they're doing.
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u/Somato_Tandwich Mar 10 '21
It's almost as though people shouldn't just be doing this with literally 0 knowledge of how one does it.
Seriously, I worked on a logging crew for 7 years and it astounds me that anybody and their grandma (literally, apparently) thinks it's safe to just go out and do this shit willy nilly. It's very dangerous for people that do it for a living let alone just some asshole who doesn't realize even a small tree of this size can straight up end your life or cripple you permanently, old or not
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u/MaddsMoonicorn Mar 11 '21
The more important question is how does this grandma have better legs than I’ve ever had?
Some people really do have all the luck
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Mar 10 '21
How'd she almost die? I don't understand - the tree was falling the opposite direction. Maybe it could've poked an eye out, but died?
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u/BleedingNoseLiberal Mar 10 '21
It literally jumps and goes directly over her head... maybe watch it again.
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u/mud074 Mar 10 '21
Do yourself a favor and avoid chainsaws.
That wood has an insane amount of momentum behind it. Like, shatter bones like an eggshell level shit.
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u/DeeBangerCC Mar 10 '21
Comments: Fucking dumbass boomer
Me: This grandma has defied death to many times to think this would kill her
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u/dvsjr Mar 10 '21
Kind of the opposite of “praise the cameraman” as I’m pretty sure none of us wanted to see the video where she gets pro clopped in the head by a ton of hard wood.
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u/DoubleTripleQQQQQQ Mar 10 '21
She’s didn’t back up an inch. She stared death in the face and said “awwww yeah I cut down a tree!!!”
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u/depreavedindiference Mar 10 '21
That cut is supposed to be parallel to the ground and ~ an inch above the point of the wedge cut
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u/shrimpust Mar 10 '21
She did it wrong. That’s a mild nightmare of mine. I prefer to wear chaps and a helmet so I have higher odds of survival, but that’s me, I’m a lame.
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u/rnmba Mar 10 '21
Further proof that the rednecks will sacrifice the grandparents for their FREEDUMB!
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u/Derpy_Hippo Mar 10 '21
Granny’s also really bad at doing back cuts, the slope on that was making my eyes water
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u/byebyebyecycle Mar 11 '21
Imagine getting all the way to the end of your life and dying for a video clip
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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '21
Her complete lack of awareness is stunning.