Lucky man

[CTS]

I'm sure this has been seen before and probably posted but had to put it up. Crazy.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEz5KsjXJP8&feature=youtube_gdata_player http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEz5KsjXJP8&feature=youtube_gdata_player

 

 

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[David Goss]

Ummm no comment (yet)

[White Noise]

How not to do it . Things like this happen and 99% of the time there avoidable. We've all made mistakes and hopefully learnt from them . Learn from this all you young arbs .

[dadio]

I've seen this clip a few times and just noticed something important now.. He left a big loop of slack in the lowering line... which gave the piece a lot of drop, maybe 6-8' before there was any brake at all.. the forces built up in that drop were huge, which is what caused the line failure.. I really like to use small homemade slings out of old 1/2" line with a small steel shackle, as redirects... by tying the sling off to one side and doing the same with where the rope is tied to the piece, its fairly easy to keep the rope out of harms way during the back cut...

[RobRainford]

Two words

 

LANYARD ON!

[Martyn Amos]

think i would have got rid of him after he felled the 1st limb and almost took out something on the back yard [looks like a boat]

[easy-lift guy]

I think the first act was nearly hitting the boat. Act II was flying out of the tree with hardly the greatest of ease. I still find it hard to believe he had so much slack in that line.

easy-lift guy

[David Goss]

Two words

 

LANYARD ON!

 

think i would have got rid of him after he felled the 1st limb and almost took out something on the back yard [looks like a boat]

 

see i didnt need to comment:001_rolleyes:

[Will Ayers]

another epic miscalculation! ugh! what a wally!

[CTS]

I love to comment from the narrator "professional tree trimmer". I'm sure that's right so long as he's on the ground with a set of loppers.

Great how in all the chaos he still had time to park his saw in a fork to make sure no one below could get hit by it. I'm sure that was in his site specific. Nice.