Posted on 03/19/2012 1:22:45 PM PDT by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
YouTube footage has emerged of an amateur lumberjack attempting to chop down a huge evergreen tree just a few feet away from his house - with disastrous consequences.
In the amusing video the sound of four large wedges being driven into the trunk echo out as a man takes to the tree armed with only an axe.
Seconds later the creaking and groaning of timber can be heard as the giant conifer slowly crashes down directly onto the one story house beside it.
The axeman, realising that he has felled the tree onto the roof of his own home seems 'stumped' for a moment and then shouts, "my house!" and a few seconds later, "my bedroom!"
The clip sparked a barrage of comments, many seemingly from 'armchair lumberjacks' offering advice on the correct way to cut down a tree.
One posting reads, "the notch in the front was about one-fifth the height and half the depth it should have been." Adding, "He should have been tensioning that bad boy."
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
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The correct way to cut down a tree is exactly opposite of the way this guy did it. That’s not too hard to figure out.
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LOL! Good example of a guy knowing just enough to be dangerous.
Sometimes you just don’t save money by doing it yourself.
ping!
Just the guy to dynamite a dead whale.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Px_BCqasYoc
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Px_BCqasYoc
He’s a lumberjack and he’s okay.....
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We had a dead 70-ft Monterey pine behind our house when we bought it. My husband — who had never cut down a tree in his life — told me he was going to cut it down himself. Ahem! We eventually found a pro to take it down for $100.
lol
Before his lumberjack career this guy worked for the government specializing in social programs.
We had a huge tree that needed to be cut down, it was sending huge roots under my house and an umbrella of limbs covered my roof. I couldn’t find anyone to cut it down and several times I was tempted to let my husband do it but it scared me and I begged him not to. He was going to use the backhoe and a couple of tractors and I knew he could do it but I just had a few doubts.
One day I ran into a woman whose son cuts trees down for a living and she said that if he had a weeks worth of work he would come to our town and she’d put me on the list. He showed up one morning and had it cut down in a couple of hours, it was worth every penny I paid him.
I topped it, then cut more....of it down. Being lazy...I stayed up in the tree while cutting some more...while reckoning that part of the tree I was cutting would not crush my wheel barrel.
It of course hit my wheel barrel..although I used the wheel barrel for another 5 years or so..but it was listing for those years. Ha!!
I was grilling some chicken near a massive white oak next to our house last spring when the sky turned dark and it began to rain.
I stepped inside to let the rain pass when a massive lightning bolt hit the tree and carved a double spiral stripe from near the top of the tree to the ground. Inside the house, everything turned bright white when the lightning hit. I would have been killed had I remained outside.
This winter, we hired a trio of good ole Missouri woodsmen and they took the tree down in pieces with one man on the tree with a chainsaw and two guys on ropes to lower the pieces.
The wood is now split and stacked for use in a couple of years.
“I cut down trees,
I skip and jump,
I love to press wild flowers,
I put on women’s clothing
and hang around in bars”
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