Multiple trees failing

[Steve Bullman]

That must have been well scary!

 

Someone on here must have cleaned that lot up?

 

doubt it, it was in Slovakia

[Mesterh]

Well, ask the Slovakian AT forum branch then.

[Steve Bullman]

Well, ask the Slovakian AT forum branch then.

 

they've been a bit quiet of late

 

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[Mesterh]

 

Would be interesting to get a definitive answer on it though.

 

Was it just a clip you came across or is there a story to it from the people filming? You could imagine it would take hours for someone to cut a path to rescue them.

[peatff]

When trees go bad. From the people who brought you loads of other sensational crap like ice road truckers. It must have been pretty scary to be stuck there though. Had there been work done on the road to upset the roots?

[drinksloe]

Brilliant clip, it would of been really scary too, esp when that tree comes down later on just in fron tof the motor.

 

Wet ground and strong winds, possibly even rubbish soils, the wooded hills near me are terrible for windblow as often peat soil on top of clay so very shalllow rooting, acres and acres of winblown timber up there.

A few christmasses ago the harvesting squad often had to cut there way in every morning and cut there way out at night that many trees were falling over the forest track.

5 miles up the valley the harvester took off on top of a 'land slide' took the brash matt and all the surrounding trees with it and travelled about 30m before it luckily stopped

 

I've seen it odd times althou never quite as spectacular as that.

Couple of times when a small strip was left by harvester i've seen u cutting some as some further down are blowing over, not nice position to be in but atleast they blew the right way

Or been cutting windblow as more is coming down, not good

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

Or been cutting windblow as more is coming down, not good

 

It was like that on a job last year; buy one get one free.

[devon TWiG]

If you look in to the woods behind the trees that fell there are no other trees , so I would hazard a guess that these roadside trees were left until the road could be closed or TM was in place ,there is more crown on the roadside and they were left exposed to some sudden wind to which they were not acclimatised to , a common windthrow scenario on the edge of a clear fell area .....