Another Bartlett’s Stunt Fell…

[Mick Dempsey]

21 minutes ago, Whoppa Choppa said:

Pulling trees with trucks. Fkn clueless. All of it beyond a joke. 

What’s wrong with pulling tree with trucks?

[Mick Dempsey]

2 hours ago, Mark Bolam said:

That, Michael, was simply not cricket.

Nicely executed square cut imo. A straight drive was the intended shot, but 4 runs on the board anyway. 

Edited March 3, 2023 by Mick Dempsey

[Mark Bolam]

Let’s hope the umpire sees it that way, the crease seemed to have been moved over right next to the crowd….

[waterbuoy]

Thankfully there was no one at Silly Point

[Stubby]

Luckily there was no " the batsman's Holding , the bowlers Willie " 🙂

[Whoppa Choppa]

3 hours ago, Mick Dempsey said:

What’s wrong with pulling tree with trucks?

The clue is in the fifth and sixth words I wrote and evidently applies yo.

[Mick Dempsey]

9 minutes ago, Whoppa Choppa said:

The clue is in the fifth and sixth words I wrote and evidently applies yo.

You going to tell us why, in the absence of other methods of applying real pulling power, a truck or loader or even a tracked chipper should not be used?

[Haironyourchest]

2 minutes ago, Mick Dempsey said:

You going to tell us why, in the absence of other methods of applying real pulling power, a truck or loader or even a tracked chipper should not be used?

 

Guessing he's down on truck pulls from watching YouTube fails but not having direct experience. Like everything, there's a right and wrong way to pull a tree with a truck. When it goes wrong, it sometimes goes so badly wrong it ends up on YouTube and adds to the myth.

 

Not too many tracked chipper/tirfor tree pull fails around, because the people who bother to aquire these devices already kind of know what they're doing, regarding trees, for the most part... But trucks ? Every head-the-ball owns one, and uses it inappropriately.

 

[woody paul]

5 hours ago, Whoppa Choppa said:

Pulling trees with trucks. Fkn clueless. All of it beyond a joke. 

When you mean truck you on about transit. 

[doobin]

Nothing wrong with using a truck to assist a fell. Like Kenny Rodgers says though, you gotta know when to hold em (winchman take just enough tension. Feller hold off on cutting the hinge any further) and when to fold em (pull smooth, hard, clean, don't spin wheels).

 

The hard bit is knowing how far you can go. Things like anchor points (both on tree and truck) make a hell of a difference, along with matching the truck to the size of the tree and the amount of lean.