Possibly the worst felled tree

[slack ma girdle]

Sorry, it.was.me:blushing:

 

Congratulation, remember there is no such thing as bad publicity.

 

Would you care to talk us through your public humiliation, and why you think it went wrong.

 

 

 

 

 

P.S. you have gone up in my estimation

[skyhuck]

I am sure we already took the mickey out that guy the first time round!

Poor guy, it was only a barbers chair and could easily have happened to any one of us. Glad it wasn't me on telly though haha

 

Speak for yourself!!!!

[chaz]

Should stay with cutting the grass, less chance of taking your head off!

[David Goss]

Speak for yourself!!!!

 

Oh come on Huck, your seriously telling me you have never had a tree barbers chair on you? Granted it doesn't happen often and it has only happened to me 2 or 3 times in 20 years but it does happen and takes you by surprise when it does. If you have been lucky and it's not happened to you then that's all it is... Luck

[Mozza]

Oh come on Huck, your seriously telling me you have never had a tree barbers chair on you? Granted it doesn't happen often and it has only happened to me 2 or 3 times in 20 years but it does happen and takes you by surprise when it does. If you have been lucky and it's not happened to you then that's all it is... Luck

 

Your confusing luck with awesomeness

[skyhuck]

You make your own luck, IMO .

[David Goss]

Haha yea now we are getting down to the nitty gritty

[Stereo]

Maybe it's down to species.

[Robert_S]

People do worst things to get on the telly:biggrin: look at all that talent pish that's on constantly

 

No one hurt, jobs a good un.

[David Goss]

Maybe it's down to species.

 

Some species are more prone to barber chairing than others yes. My last one which was either the end of last year or beginning of this one (cant remember exactly) was an ash. Ash are probably the worst for it and I am usually on the ball when doing the thinnings as I was doing. This particular tree had no signs at all that it would do it and it was pretty much exactly the same as the previous 100 trees in the same woodland that I had previously done. Gob in, back cut done, tree starts to fall, I get out the way, all perfectly textbook stuff till the tree reaches about 40 degreese in the fell, then boom it splits up about 3 meters through the centre of the tree.

Anyone telling me that I should have foreseen that exact action is talking through a hole in their backside. We have our escape routes planned exactly because these things happen without warning so to give someone a hard time for it and say it will never happen to you because your too super fantastic is just completely naive and you will get a shock some day.