Stunt fell pics

[Czlowiek Drzewo]

Plenty of residual wall in that tree, climb and rig no problems.

 

your lucky that holly was there to stop the butt going off to the side and taking that wall out!

 

Hama. I might of being able to climb it ..but i would have needed to rig it down, might be 70% safe to climb ..but why run the risk when i can have fun stunt felling it.

[David Humphries]

Not so much a stunt 'fell', more a stunt 'lift for the street light'

 

 

 

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[Salix Tree & Countryside]

This is a top thread, really enjojed reading them all. aaaaaaaadone a fair few stunt fells myself over the years, but never got a damn camera handy !!

 

One inparticular was a dead horsechestnut, about 50 ft, in some waste land behind some houses. My boss gets a call, so i have to go an deal with it, i gets there, slight forward lean, good, clear felling direction, good............lets get a tug line on just to make sure, good............gob in, good...............back cut, good.................tree stands absolutely still........................................bad, i ran forward yelling my man to pull, i grab the rope, we both pull..............i hear a "crack", wot was that ? Tree starts to move backwards, pull !!!!!!!! let go !!!!!!!! tree comes down 180 degrees from where it should have, taking out fence, shed and astonishingly brushing the walls and windows of the house with the last inch of the tallest part of the tree!!!!!!!! The bloke in the house said he was watching it, and when he saw it coming for him he dived under the bed.......my career flashed infront of me those few seconds....................good days.......didn't put me off, love a good stuntie lol

Mark

[Mark Bolam]

Brave post!

[testcricket01]

Brave post!

 

wish everyone on here was as truthful as him it would be a much better fourm for it

 

 

now come on wheres the video footage of that fell gone wrong then

[Salix Tree & Countryside]

Ha ha i wish i had some, you would have seen the funny colour i went, an if it was smellyvision..................well !!!!

 

Mark

[Pat Ferrett]

Ha ha i wish i had some, you would have seen the funny colour i went, an if it was smellyvision..................well !!!!

 

Mark

 

The saying that "your belly retired and you butt back fired" sounds apt

[mistahbenn]

So why didnt it lay into the fall? what did the hinge look like?

[Stephen Blair]

Here is Roberts sqeezing in a 100ft tree into a 98 ft gap before the fence, btw the rail was already missing!!

[slack ma girdle]

Here is Roberts sqeezing in a 100ft tree into a 98 ft gap before the fence, btw the rail was already missing!!

 

Luck or extreme skill