Scary video

[tractorboy1]

Saw this on another site so thought id post it here.

 

[David Goss]

looks like someone hasnt done his windblow ticket...

[skyhuck]

[scotspine1]

That guy on the saw was totally unprepared and obviously hasn't worked on a lot of storm damaged/windblown trees. He failed on two fronts. Not only did he nearly kill himself but if the roving reporter had been standing a few feet back towards the rootplate he'd be a dead man also.

 

we always have someone standing on the otherside of the rootplate before making the final cut that'll drop the rootplate back down into its hole, just to make sure no kids, dogs or trainee arborists jump into the crater.

[john p]

bloody hell!!luckily his ppe would have saved him!!

[skyhuck]

That guy on the saw was totally unprepared and obviously hasn't worked on a lot of storm damaged/windblown trees. He failed on two fronts. Not only did he nearly kill himself but if the roving reporter had been standing a few feet back towards the rootplate he'd be a dead man also.

 

we always have someone standing on the otherside of the rootplate before making the final cut that'll drop the rootplate back down into its hole, just to make sure no kids, dogs or trainee arborists jump into the crater.

 

Indeed, we always joke that if we needed to "loose" a body, a root plate would be a very quick and easy shallow grave

[tree monkey]

bloody hell!!luckily his ppe would have saved him!!

 

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[Old Mill Tree Care]

How does somebody that uses an 880 also wear a baseball cap and jeans?!

[Steve Bullman]

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i think its called sarcasm

[Mark Bolam]

A cutter was killed in the clearup after '87.

 

He went to take a dump under a rootplate, someone released some tension on a tree somewhere further up the windblow line, the tree (a big Beech) stood up and squashed him.

 

He was found clutching some bog roll.

 

His PPE didn't save him.