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shameless dude 
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 Posted: 15 Aug 2018 at 6:58am |
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I know all about cutting trees on windy days! been thru that already, and that dude is correct! lol
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Tbone95
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Posted: 15 Aug 2018 at 7:41am |
Guess it depends on the direction of the wind, and the direction you'd prefer it to go.... 2 guys at work here have been injured over the years. The one guy had a stick/branch fall from way up high, and sort of stab him through the side of the eye orbit / socket. Looked pretty nasty, and his eye doesn't track quite right, but he did not lose sight. Hardhat anyone? The other guy was limbing a tree already fell. He didn't notice the spring set into one of the branches, or noticed it but didn't think it was that bad, anyway he cut into that and it sprung out and whacked him in the face, sent him flying backwards with a broken jaw, cheekbone, eye orbit, and a nice concussion. Took him a while to make a recovery. Both these guys were very experienced. I think there comes a point in your experience where you think you're bulletproof. Seen it on more than one topic.
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shameless dude
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Posted: 15 Aug 2018 at 11:25pm |
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I agree T-Bone, freeky accidents kill/wound just the same!
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klinemar
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Posted: 16 Aug 2018 at 7:08am |
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You are right Tbone! I have had some really close calls felling trees! And I could tell a lot of stories about local people too. I take my time and study the tree and always plan an escape route. I also use as many tools in my favor that I can take to the woods. One of the best items that I used was my father in laws Kubota tractor with a log skidding attachment. That really is a good tool. My son now has it since my father in law passed away and he lives 2 hours away so my faithful 185 is my woods helper.
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Tbone95
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Posted: 16 Aug 2018 at 8:13am |
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When I was clearing the building site for my house, I cut down some HUGE trees. 60 -70 foot maples, some smaller oaks, poplar, etc. Naturally, most of the time I was alone. I picked a direction and fell every one of those trees like a pro right where I wanted. Sister and brother in law stopped by, I was literally on the last tree. Small mostly dead tree, very straight, no worries. I saw where they were standing, I said, "Uhhh....maybe you should move back some. Never know." That friggin' tree fell over exactly OPPOSITE to the direction I planned, would have been right on top of them. Crazy. Yeah, you really gotta be thinking ahead.
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DiyDave
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Posted: 16 Aug 2018 at 6:04pm |
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shameless dude
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Posted: 16 Aug 2018 at 9:23pm |
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I used to cut a lot of trees at night, I had good portable lighting back then. I was lucky!
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desertjoe
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Posted: 16 Aug 2018 at 9:40pm |
As a very young man,,bout 14 years old,,,I learned how to properly fell BIG trees,,mostly them huge elms that were dyin from thet disease killin em. My Daddy took to contractin on cuttin them down and guess who wount up havin to climb plumb to the highest crotch that would hold the rest of the limbs. That crotch was our snatch block for lettin the other branches down to ground. The limb with the crotch was last one down and My Dad would tie the rope to trk and pull it out to street. ONE time we come very close to takin out the owner's new trk by inches,,,,whew,,,,,
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dawntreader74
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Posted: 16 Aug 2018 at 10:02pm |
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it pay's some time to get a good bull rope in a big tree an put it wear you wan't it to go.i do it for a living. a tree can get you heart if you don't know what your doing. seen a lot of people get killed' because of not wanting to pay someone to 'at least get on the ground. for them.it's sad' but it's the truth.
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Lars(wi)
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Posted: 18 Aug 2018 at 11:08pm |
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to bad we cant get those buggers trained to burrow into the mesquite 'tree'.
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I tried to follow the science, but it was not there. I then followed the money, and that’s where I found the science.
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shameless dude
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Posted: 19 Aug 2018 at 4:11am |
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I wonder if fogging the whole tree with an insecticide would do the trick? maybe several applications thru the summer?
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jaybmiller
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Posted: 19 Aug 2018 at 6:14am |
shameless.. seems the guvs gt another 'plan'. They just allow 'wildfires' to start, run rampant and kill 100s of millions of trees. Someone, somewhere showed pine trees being the next species to be killed off ! Had 'they' NOT allowed ANY wooden skids in from outside our countries,we'd still have ash trees here, and elm, and........
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shameless dude
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Posted: 19 Aug 2018 at 10:05pm |
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I agree Jay...there are all kinds of warfare, they tried to get our pets a few years ago too!
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shameless dude
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Posted: 24 Aug 2018 at 8:11am |
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had an about a 10 inch ash tree limb break off and fall in the front yard, just missed the deck. no dead in it, no bugs that I can see. weird that it broke off all by itself, no storm, just a lot of rain. been cutting it up last 2 days, should be able to finish today. it did destroy our fire pit that was under it. I been burning the branches right next to where it fell. (burn pit area).
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