I am receiving the perfect lesson on how to improperly fall a tree from the folks across the street. This is hilarious.
As I type right now, I am looking out my window and seeing a man with a chainsaw trying to cut through the tree trunk. The tree has a rope around it that is connected to a Ford Explorer’s tow hitch…that Explorer is sitting about a good 100 feet from where the tree stands now. Even funnier, there are two guys standing above the man with the chainsaw trying to use their physical strength to guide the tree in the direction they want it to fall.
And as if that isn’t funny enough, the guy is totally cutting in the wrong direction from his initial V-cut. Bahahahahahaha!
I laugh uncontrollably at this because my family is from the Pacific Northwest, where every kid born into a family of someone who works in the timber industry learns how to wield an ax shortly after learning to walk. That being said, my dad, brother and I worked on a good amount of trees that had to come down and they never hit the house or outbuildings — and what do you know, we didn’t have to rope it to a car or push on it.
I guess I could offer some help to these guys…
Um, he didn’t even finish his v-cut before his fell cut. He left a good four inches in the tree, and then started his fell cut. Even though his fell cut was in the right direction, is was doing nothing due to the unfinished v-cut. It is a simple mistake newbs make. Then they think they should finish the v-cut, resulting only in their chainsaw becoming stuck as the weight of the tree pinches the blade and bar.