Thread: how not to fell a tree

weisy i have sour cream with my wedgies, but not while i'm knocking down a couple of saplings like the the good ol' boys in the video i wait till' i get to the pubfor them. as for the joker showing us good ol' american know how . on how to clear scrub trees ; i don't think they'll get a job over here teaching clear felling mountain ash. i still dont mind the tractor they had for dragging the stuff out. all horse power and no brains

would be nice wooden it

hafgan what was the movie that line was out of? i think john cleese was singing it ? am i right?

Lumberjack song aside ( even though I'm a Monty Python fan) that was some pretty rough cutting.

First tree, the notch was stuffed up badly and seriously undercut causing a dutchman. As soon as the tree started to fall the notch closes up and can cause all sorts of mayhem. (barberchair or falling in the wrong place.)

2nd tree he was doing plunge cuts with the kickback corner of the bar, OK again it worked for him, this time.

But if he went to sit his chainsaw 101 course, he's gonna fail. Thats all stuff we got taught in a one day farmers chainsaw course that OSH puts on for free. Pro loggers have much better training that they shuold be following.

Ian

Ian if you are a monty fan can you tell me the name of the movie, the lumber jack song came from?

live at the hollywood bowl has it, charlsie

Yup.. The Lumberjack song was from the original TV series.

But if you want to get it on DVD then the Hollywood Bowl live concert has it as well.

Ian

The song was sung by Michael Palin.

My god! I saw my father cut down trees with an axe in less bloody time!!

If I had ever used a saw like that I would have taken the saw off myself, Locked myself up and thrown away the key!

tell me about it

he could have had both those trees down in less than half the time it took him to do both.

and a lot more safely

deathwish - I wouldn't have felt very secure being camera man

and was he driving whilst fliming?