Widow maker

[arbogrunt]

I always find dead birches are nasty for this, top breaks out and hangs around just long enough for you to bimble into the zone and get some. After a couple of close shaves, I always wait a while and have a good look in the crowns of surrounding trees these days!

[Bearded Munch]

Dropped a nice ash branch on a groundy once the dull **** parked the chipper under the tree I was up .

Another one I rolled a large willow branch onto a smaller tree below me and in turn it bounced off that straight on top off a groundy.

[MattyF]

Watch out if they are so dead that they brake up and come back at you as well as the hanging branches!

http://http://m.youtube.com/index?desktop_uri=%2F&gl=GB#/watch?feature=mhee&v=vp3saY0dfX8

[sussexlad]

last year i just finished fuelling up, was walking away and heard a big thud, a oak bough about 8 inches across had landed across my fuel and oil cans. if i had stayed there 10 seconds longer then i would have been brown bread. wasnt even a really windy day!

[Ben Saxton]

Due to their definition you might not get many answers to this one.

 

Class answer

[bvl]

A contractor I know was doing a bit of felling a couple of years ago and as the tree came over it pulled a branch out of an adjacent tree which came down and struck the one of the guys killing him outright. Don't underestimate how dangerous this job can be.

[Old Mill Tree Care]

Three years ago I was reducing a large Beech with only one groundie so there was a complete carpet of brush under the tree.

Next thing I knew the client was yelling at me because I had apparently dropped a branch on his wife's head. She was now in the house, covered in blood, trying to go to sleep!

Why was she there? Nobody knows!

 

It's not just the trees that we're at risk from, the customer can be a mine field of problems.

[kernowstu]

felling medium s/chestnut next to big monty pine closed canopy,felled chestnut next thing on ground,came around blood everywhere and shoulder broken in 4 places.he didnt want me that day and i still thank him for it work safe

[Mark Bolam]

Some good posts here.

 

I always think the trees will get you before your saw or kit will.

 

That said, I once accessed a tree via a ladder, stropped in and sat back. Next thing I was flat on my arse in a bush at the base of the tree, winded but unharmed.

 

I'd clipped into my Caritool instead of my side-D. Caritools are good, but they aren't built for side-loading by fat little Geordies. Lesson learned.

 

Think twice, cut once.

[Peter]

Glad I wasn't there mark, I would have died laughing.

 

On the bright side at least you didn't land on your groundie.