The unexplained

[Steve Bullman]

1 minute ago, Retired Climber said:

Personally, based on nothing more than guessing, i'd say they took a load of weight from the crown and it sat up leaving 'x' amount of main stem left above what we see now. They then put a gob in thinking they would pull it backwards. However, being farmers, by the time the machine arrived they realised that they didn't need to drag it back, when someone could stand on forks / in bucket / on roof of aforementioned machine, and chog it down. When they hit fence wire / staples, they thought "sod it, let's just prop it up and go home". 

Quite a feasible scenario 

[Sutton]

10 hours ago, Spruce Pirate said:

I've never met a farmer who understood this.  They all think it's some sort of magical power to be able to cross-cut anything remotely big without getting pinched.

Do you do rural work as well forestry?

I deal regularly with 20 or so land owners, some of which are farmers but this is down in the south west where farming may be very different. Most I've meet are practically minded and have engineering skills which means they know about stress loads and tolerances.

 

HSE law means few mess about like the fool-hardy weekend warriors we used to see here on Arbtalk, that is, most landowners I know would say something like "if you want to get something done right and first time, get in the professionals".

 

We can all agree that Steve's photos show some serious fuzzy duck bollox, right?

[petercb]

Not recent by vegetation regrowth, road sign and sandbag look new?

Maybe didn't sit back up but pulled up and propped to keep ditch clear?

[Steve Bullman]

1 hour ago, petercb said:

Not recent by vegetation regrowth, road sign and sandbag look new?

Maybe didn't sit back up but pulled up and propped to keep ditch clear?

Would have been in the last winds a few weeks back. I walk this route regularly, just never stopped to take a photo before 

[Doug Tait]

Another theory then, that Steve, subconsciously frustrated by a life of web design and DIY woodwork projects was sleepwalking one night, while dreaming of the big gun days removing a massive, dangerous roadside tree.

A huge team, with traffic management in place, watching in awe as the gun for hire threaded an awkward fell between power lines whilst avoiding damage to the road and hedges. The crowd applauded, the bill was paid, and Steve awoke in the morning with mud on his knees and a black and decker jigsaw by the bedside, with an urge to walk down the road past the site of his earlier awesomeness... 

[Stool master]

Perhaps the farmer type had seen this video and fancied he'd have go himself 😉

 

 

[scottythepinetree]

I reckon he ran out of petrol halfway through the cut and couldn't afford to refill. Price of fuel these days.

[openspaceman]

2 hours ago, scottythepinetree said:

 Price of fuel these days.

Yup going OT but Aspen is only three times the price of petrol now which surprised be