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It wouldn't surprise me if states didn't start licensing chainsaws and requiring training before you operate one. Plenty of of UTube compilations of tree felling gone wrong and they drop a big ol tree on their car or house. Unfortunately you can't ban stupid.
Here's a short showing a numbnut cutting the low side on a leaning tree. Who does that? The gods were trying stop him from cutting any more trees by destroying his saw.
https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1BcApBUMVQ/
Paul Bunyan is spinning in his grave. I'm typing this with a napkin wrapped around my finger which I cut whilst dividing up a salmon fillet. I have a 20 inch Farm Boss Stihl chainsaw which my daughter bought me with her employee discount.
Let's don't require a license, she might have to take a pay cut if sales decline.
I used to fell trees for my Dads construction company. It’s an art. The real guy was a tried and true logger. He taught me so much, not enough that stopped me from getting quite a few stitches slipping on a birch tree but enough that I’m still here. We had a tornado go through and helped a friend out. Been to combat but that was the scariest place I have ever been too, cutting dead fall with his neighbors. Dude started cutting the same tree I was cutting, he was facing me about 18in from my cut, I could touch him. I kept imaging his chain coming off and hitting me. Grrrrrr
My great Uncle Lonie died from cutting a tree when it fell on him..
No wait Uncle Zeb was the one that had the tree fall on him. Uncle Lonie died when he got drunk and fell off his horse and drowned in a mud puddle
Saddest part of this is that the guy likely knew exacty what he was doing and just wanted to get as many watches as possible. No one would watch his video if he cut it the right way and the tree just fell without drama. The 20 and 30 something are so obsessed with being scene on social media they will go to all ends to do it.Quote:
Originally Posted by BP in ME
Logged for quite a few years, still do storm damage and problem tree removal and needless to say I have been busy here in Michigan lately. One thing I have learned watching people cut for the last 3 weeks, just because you have cut firewood all your life does NOT mean you have the experience or ability to safely remove storm damaged trees!! Some of them still scare the crap out of me. Cj
Currently own 5 chainsaws with plans for 2 more this year. All pro saws, once you run a pro saw you’ll never go back to homeowner grade stuff. Night and day difference. Making some wood chips fly is as relaxing as having the lake to myself.
Storm damage is a different critter for sure. It takes some detective work to figure out what the forces are and what direction they go. Uprooted trees are probably the worst if you can't figure out if the stump wants to spring back into the ground.Quote:
Originally Posted by CJ1
If I'm going to get my saw stuck while working out in the woods it usually involves gray birch which we consider weed trees. They often grow in clumps because the sucker growth off a stump is prolific. They don't hold up well to ice and snow so they lay over and develop a hook which can have a left or right lean as well. Add to that, you not having good access to the back of the tree because it's a clump. But most are under a foot and they pull down pretty easy with the Farmi winch. Damn near useless tree if there ever was one though
Damn, I need to pick up my game--I only have 4 and one isn't running. Got a cheapie Homelite for free that should make a good truck saw for backcountry trips. If it gets stolen while I'm fishing, no big loss.Quote:
Originally Posted by spinningreel
I know a couple guys were cutting firewood one day. One was cutting up a felled log and the other was loading. The guy loading had a few extra pounds on him with a belly that stuck out farther than his belt. Chainsaw man pulled the saw out of a log and swung around just as loader walked up. Cut loader’s belt, pants, band on underwear - and left a scratch that did not require stitches. Wonder it didnt field dress him on the spot.
Too bad this beaver did not watch a guberment mandated safety video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dH71sw4596M
That's the gray birch I was talking about! It sucks.Quote:
Originally Posted by Transom
We have an apple tree in the backyard that completely died last year. Wife wants to cut it down but the top of it is up in the power and telephone lines and any direction it falls it will hit a stockade fence or the patio roof. I know that with prices of things nowadays it will cost a grand to get someone to come cut it down and haul it off. I'm planning on leaving it up and letting my wife hang planters and bird feeders on it until the power line guys come along and top it off. Maybe they'll top it off all the way to the roots.