A 80 foot Oak tree felled by Ben and freinds 176 years old.

me and some freinds help a guy I know drop a tree, 8ft off his house.. No body wanted to do it so I did with a Stihl 440 mag 36in bar , and a ford ranger, nothing beats a Stihl.. this tree was 176 years old, but rotton at the top and was going to fall on his house, I think it went well tell me what you think.. This was in Lexington Kentucky .. Next door filmed the video, did pretty good.

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[stihlman440mag]

well i have been called punchy some times, but I had done my sight line and checked the lean of the tree, I had taken a lot off the back side.. But thank you for not slamming me like many others..

[aurelius903]

With all that weight you had left on the house side, you cut that close.

[stihlman440mag]

@aurelius903 like I have said, from were it was filmed.. " by some body else' I had more to the yard side than to the house.. but I it was in my favor were I cut it and it was not as close as every body thinks but thank you for the input

[stihlman440mag]

you know I have not been big on all the stuff people say but when you help some body out and it makes some body unhappy they rant about it. But all they do is bitch, so I dont care but how many people do you all help and not ask for any thing in return..

[stihlman440mag]

I had cut most of the bad limbs out of the way I had a hard hat but it was stolen while we had lunch, I have 2 now and all the ppe but thank you for not slamming me..

[stihlman440mag]

well that was the guy next door can help that didnt even know he did it untill he came over and showed us the vid

[azggnrlqtrs]

This was a very risky take down. Not me Not that way. lucky in my opinion.

[Oasix21]

Skip to 6:27

[ralphcraddock]

very good but get some safety equipment next time.

gloves ?ever see what a chain saw can do to a mans fingers or when it kicks back and the blade of the saw catches you in the face (not in a movie but real life?),it can be and is often is lethal.

believe me? yes good ,no you are a fool.

[PATSICK]

@GhoogleBlows I was kinda going along with the program until the camera panned up; and I saw what had been left up there. I think that's why climbing spikes were invented so you could get up there and take that thing apart in manageable pieces. Scary project.

[PATSICK]

@GhoogleBlows Yes, that's what struck me most about the set-up. Rigging means looking at the angles of the lines. A wheeled vehicle that's expected to pull down on a line is like praying for rain to a blue sky. it ain't likely. The vehicle is condemned to pulling its own wheels up, lifting weight off them, and losing traction. The way you do this is with a screw anchor, screwed alll the way down and a block, so that the lead of the line to the vehicle is up to the hitch, not down.

[nikesb2406]

bro you weren't wearing the right underwear. its very unsafe to cut trees without the correct underwear. next time take my advice and it may save your life. i know everything because i cut my fathers firewood on saturday's................peop­le are fucking nerds lol. good job bro

[kittatinnytree]

Perfect notch, accurate back cut, and a nice landing! Great job.

[dougspair]

@SurefireWoodsman Yes, I've only fallen a few trees as I'm the welder guy, my brother has 30+ years as the logger/log truck driver, but can't get youtube on his dial-up, so no opinion from him, I give this guy the thumbs up, he seemed to have it all planned out pretty well. My bro' and I are in our mid-60's and still do this stuff all the time.

[dougspair]

That's a pretty good hunk of tree with the limbs on it, good job! You get the thumbs up. Looks like you had things planned out well enough.

[GhoogleBlows]

On second thought, it sure does look like there's a lot of tree on the backside... Those wedges likely saved your ass.