dadio throws a big top

[Matt Butler]

Sorry video not bid stupid I phone predictive text

[toprotter]

Fell it through the hedge...throw line bull rope one cut = on the deck safe......(they didn't want to spend for the bucket) and wernt bothered by the damage already to hedge. Also as you said YOU wernt happy about climbing A 'structurally defective' tree so why bother ?

I hope that one day we wont be watching a u tube dadio biting the dust.

Stay smart stay wise and most importantly stay alive as you wont get any medals.

[Rob D]

Well it worked.... as said I bet there are a few vids you have stashed away never to go on youtube where it hasn't worked!

 

 

One thing. You did the notch, side cuts, back cut. So the top is ready to come over. And then presumably you spiked or lowered yourself back down the tree.

 

So what if the top had started going had started going as you were making your way back down the tree?

[dadio]

Nice landing. Reckon there'd be too many variables to accurately rely on getting a 180 spin in a situation where you needed it though.

 

Not necessarily.. like anything else it just takes some experience and observation.. trial and error..

 

And I'd expect to use it in many situations where 180º wasn't needed, just enough to turn the tree slightly, 90º or less.. A tree can be spun slightly by using a narrow humboldt and a rolling snipe.. (see fundamentals of general tree work).. I wonder how much more spin could be gained by using a wrapped (yo-yo) tie off.. its going to be fun to find out..

[josharb87]

I enjoyed it

 

why step below the plunged backcut? i would have thought that would cause the top's step to catch the stem's step tipping the tip of the top foward, where as stepping the top above the plunged backcut nothing would have snagged, maybe making the whole top land flat and avoided damaging the lawn . . . although the damage you made, which some others would worry about looks to me to be about 2minutes with a fork

[dadio]

I would have thought so to, until I watched a slow motion vid of a similar fall..

 

You can see at 1:45 that the bottom of the step clears the remaining trunk, only catching a loose piece of bark.. that was a bigger step and that top was only fallling with the force of gravity on a front leaner..

 

And I wasn't worried so much about the grass as this customer has a full time grounds keeper..

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNV5gnZpMSo]falling large tree tops 3.mov - YouTube[/ame]

[MattyF]

Like I said in your first vid you can see the cracks going up the stem from the hinge ....with such small gobs and massive pulling forces it's only a matter of time before you have a tree barbers chair, I can't believe the second vid.... Words really can not describe it can they!

[Mark Bolam]

They can Matty, but you're not allowed to use them on here....

[Adam Bourne]

why ??????

 

most of them could of been felled from the ground ?????

 

sometimes i just don't understand your motives.....

 

 

with you on this one mattyf.....only a matter of time

[Neil Frost]

I love the woman's comments on the second movie. She goes from "Oh jesus, jesus, oh, ohhhhh" to "look at all the light on the house" within a few seconds...gotta love people!

 

Just fell it from the ground man!