Topping Fail

[cordao]

Tree Cutting Fail Video

[Paul Jenks]

Gob too big, hinge too small, climber being greedy. Live and learn.

[stuart blunsom]

LoL, I no it not nice but put a smile on my face

Polish say no more, Rope in top and a lot smaller.

[Joe Loggs]

Brilliant :-).

[son of a birch]

Is he using an electric saw?

[Rupe]

Its great that many languages, scandinavian and many others, have to revert to English for swearing!

[dadio]

Gob too big, hinge too small, climber being greedy. Live and learn.

 

OK GAME ON!!!!

 

This subject just came up recently at 2 of the American sites..

 

First of all I TOTALLY disagree that the gob was too big... The tree simply had too much side lean for the hinge, he didn't have enough pull to get it moving to the face.. the back cut was a bit high, and there was no taper to the hinge. So he kept cutting til he took too much out of the hinge to hold.

 

If he had a good bit more pull on the top and had cut a proper hinge, he might have been able to overcome the side lean.. None of this has anything to do with the notch being too big.... IF ANYTHING, a bigger notch would have left more wood across the hinge to fight the side lean..

 

That is beside the point here.. We have a man criticizing a gob for being too big.. IMO most American arborists.. like 99+%, cannot explain why we cut the gob's 1/3 the diameter or so deep as to make the hinge width 80% of the diameter of the tree.. People follow this rule religiously and make high judgments about anything done outside the "rules", without having the faintest idea of why the rules are there..

 

If you understand the why of the rule, then it becomes clear as to when it is best, or at least better, to break the rule.. I AM just wondering how many brits understand the why's of this rule, which governs what is probably the most basic task in our industry... Brits clearly have much better training than americans, did anyone ever explain the why's of this rule during all of that training?

[Daniël Bos]

Polish say no more, Rope in top and a lot smaller.

 

He's not polish, he's Friesian!

A people described best as "exceptionally stubborn":biggrin: The other thing is that there are no natural heights in Friesland at all, the only "hills" are man-made and very rarely over 10ft high, so for one of the Friesians to climb a tree is a big step.

 

After his swearing he asks: "how was that possible?":001_cool:

[Le Sanglier]

I reckon he probably broke a fence panel or two, still saved money on getting a tree surgeon in.

Plus I reckon his adrenal gland got a good workout!

[Adam Bourne]

He's not polish, he's Friesian!

A people described best as "exceptionally stubborn":biggrin: The other thing is that there are no natural heights in Friesland at all, the only "hills" are man-made and very rarely over 10ft high, so for one of the Friesians to climb a tree is a big step.

 

After his swearing he asks: "how was that possible?"

 

 

classic.......

 

forgot you were from Holland mate.....

 

is friesian something to do with horse's???