Barbers Chair

[bob]

do you not think it was set up

wondered if a big pull on top of tree

[MattyF]

maybe bob!??? we had instructors when i did my nptc's who simulated barbers chairs,very easily with winches and ropes to show us

[Rob D]

why is he so stupid in the first vid???he got out of the way damn fast with a suitable escape route, bet if most people were feling 100+ spruce a day there would be some errors......thats the nature of timber its is to unpredictable, evan on the straight suff ive seen people get too complacent.

 

Ditto on the above. He was standing in the right place and got himself out of danger. We've all made the wrong cuts one time or another - the main thing is you have a strategy to get out the way when things go wrong. He'll hopefully have learnt from that.

 

By the way that video 'James the Narcoleptic Tree Surgeon' is unreal !! It just doesn't get any better than that does it!

[Mesterh]

Looked at the first vid a few times and unless as bob says it was a setup I cant see why it barbered and also why it did so so quickly!

[Khriss]

Hmmm, to be honest -he approached the job confidently, set up his camera himself, made his cut and it went badly............not enough lean on it to fracture sound timber like that. No way that was set up-he was within inches of getting splattered. ( are we that mad.....? * ) maybe lightning fractured stem or rot he hadn't assessed proply. Bloody lucky relly,non of my barbers has ever done it that badly.

 

K

 

( * no-don't answer that.....)