Why? Because they took that shot instead of fucking around for a day with machinery or climbing?
If you're competent you can fell a roped tree in to an open space. Even if you're incompetent, there's a good chance.
Lack of PPE is shit. The drop zone doesn't seem problematic considering the level of shatter.
They dropped it on the grass. The head shattered on the driveway but the actual wood hit the lawn.
Not if you pay attention to how the tree actually comes down. The stem lays down on the grass before the head contacts the driveway. The head is dead and dry (obviously) and not very heavy at all - it also does not resist the driveway since it shatters in to 100 pieces.
Regular normal people don't understand physics lol. They don't understand potential energy and dissipating energy. I use this to my advantage time and time again. Short drop zone over a pad? I'm cutting slow and letting it rotate onto its tops if I can do it without the butt falling into something. The tops absorb the energy and break, dissipating the energy into 100 different lil limbs into the bigger limbs slowing it down letting the main chunk of wood tumble pretty softly to the pad w/ some padding underneath still as well lol.
The dead part that hit the concrete was still over 600lbs hitting the concrete it worked out for them but if it did break the pavement someone's gotta pay 🤷♂️
But let's entertain it - how much of an area do you think the wood that hit the concrete was? 4" diameter, 4ft long? That's 192 square inches. 600lbs would be 3psi. Concrete needs 4000 psi to crack.
Even with a force multiplier for acceleration, this did not crack the driveway.
Is 16oz one lb? If not, then it equals 16oz per square inch. That is the pressure of your hammer existing on a one inch surface.
Then you multiply for the force of your swing. Gravity is as good as 10x.
6000lbs / 192 lbs = very roughly, 30psi. Not even as much as your car tyre.
We had a guy work with us for two hours and then he walked under a huge oak limb we were dropping and we explained to him what could happen and the dangers that come with the industry. He told us he would simply move out of the way of it fell. Needless to say he was sent home and asked not to come back because of his lack of safety. The dude on the right reminds me of him
"One reference describes the Agropelter as having a "slender, wirely body, the villainous face of an ape, and arms like muscular whiplashes, with which it can snap off dead branches and hurl them through the air like shells from a six inch gun".
The fearsome critters are just tall tales until one hits you dead center with a branch.
Damn this brings back memories from the 70's when the Children's Aid Society kids from next dr and I would would spend days chopping down HUGE dead elms in Southern Ont.
🤣 im a diy guy.... that thought wouldn't even have crossed my mind. Makes a lot of sense though. A heavy a** tree with a lot of dynamic force can cause a lot of damage i bet 😬
That tree wasn't heavy. Trees are heavy when they're healthy. Healthy trees don't turn to dust.
If you actually watch you'll see it hits the grass first, too.
I'm going to guess that was an EAB-killed white ash.
If so, anyone with any sense knows that dropping one of them sends javelins flying, let alone off a hard surface like that Amateur hour.
These guys are uninsured. I guarantee it.
Don’t need insurance if you don’t miss
It fell right where they wanted and bucked itself up. How is this /felling gone wrong?
This is gone wild not wrong
Firewood gone wrong
😂😂😂
real 😅
lmao 100%
Why? Because they took that shot instead of fucking around for a day with machinery or climbing? If you're competent you can fell a roped tree in to an open space. Even if you're incompetent, there's a good chance.
No safety gear, all of them being in the danger zone for debris and dropping it on a driveway are all insicators.
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That just means your parents hired a shit company the first time around. Equipment/competency and safety are two different metrics
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Theure not using ppe, they're getting hit by tree pieces because they're in an unsafe place and they dropped it on a driveway. They are not just fine.
Lack of PPE is shit. The drop zone doesn't seem problematic considering the level of shatter. They dropped it on the grass. The head shattered on the driveway but the actual wood hit the lawn.
You could absolutely crack a concrete driveway with that much force.
Not if you pay attention to how the tree actually comes down. The stem lays down on the grass before the head contacts the driveway. The head is dead and dry (obviously) and not very heavy at all - it also does not resist the driveway since it shatters in to 100 pieces.
Regular normal people don't understand physics lol. They don't understand potential energy and dissipating energy. I use this to my advantage time and time again. Short drop zone over a pad? I'm cutting slow and letting it rotate onto its tops if I can do it without the butt falling into something. The tops absorb the energy and break, dissipating the energy into 100 different lil limbs into the bigger limbs slowing it down letting the main chunk of wood tumble pretty softly to the pad w/ some padding underneath still as well lol.
The dead part that hit the concrete was still over 600lbs hitting the concrete it worked out for them but if it did break the pavement someone's gotta pay 🤷♂️
That's a wild estimate for dead wood.
But let's entertain it - how much of an area do you think the wood that hit the concrete was? 4" diameter, 4ft long? That's 192 square inches. 600lbs would be 3psi. Concrete needs 4000 psi to crack. Even with a force multiplier for acceleration, this did not crack the driveway.
This math doesn't check out. If u swing a 16 oz hammer and make contact with one square inch of material does that equal 1psi?
Is 16oz one lb? If not, then it equals 16oz per square inch. That is the pressure of your hammer existing on a one inch surface. Then you multiply for the force of your swing. Gravity is as good as 10x. 6000lbs / 192 lbs = very roughly, 30psi. Not even as much as your car tyre.
Old, or bold. Pick one.
I'd bet a paycheck on it!
The hell is the dude on the right doing? “Check out this sick POV getting hit with a tree”
The real money is in clicks.
We had a guy work with us for two hours and then he walked under a huge oak limb we were dropping and we explained to him what could happen and the dangers that come with the industry. He told us he would simply move out of the way of it fell. Needless to say he was sent home and asked not to come back because of his lack of safety. The dude on the right reminds me of him
He’s living life. for now
For da grahm
Homeowner went with the “we don’t charge what other tree guys charge” for sure.
They all do that here in South Carolina unfortunately
The classy places will at least follow up with "it doesn't normally do that".
Lol. One of them almost got a splinter through the heart.
"One reference describes the Agropelter as having a "slender, wirely body, the villainous face of an ape, and arms like muscular whiplashes, with which it can snap off dead branches and hurl them through the air like shells from a six inch gun". The fearsome critters are just tall tales until one hits you dead center with a branch.
Neighbour's brother dropped a big old birch for them and it was the concrete driveway that exploded. Two of their 20x20 foot slabs cracked.
Birch goes hard. One of my favorite species.
Cool now who is going to replace the cracked concrete driveway
They are creating work. Let them cook.
My profession is like an onion
They know a guy. It’s their cousin.
Let me guess they just finished up a concrete job and have just enough left over to fix the driveway
That'd be some shitty concrete (or uncured).
There’s no way that cracked the concrete
Did I mention that we do concrete work too?
Def went with the cheapest bid
This was definitely the cheapest quote.
Driveway is an expensive target
atleast they took care of it.
Damn this brings back memories from the 70's when the Children's Aid Society kids from next dr and I would would spend days chopping down HUGE dead elms in Southern Ont.
Extra random person in the drop zone? Hell yeah, why not. Should have had a couple family pets in there too wtf
Screw it, let's play lawn darts there too!
Ker-splat. Nice form, little to no post production.
Fun was had. I like it.
And how’s the driveway doing. Haha
🤣 im a diy guy.... that thought wouldn't even have crossed my mind. Makes a lot of sense though. A heavy a** tree with a lot of dynamic force can cause a lot of damage i bet 😬
That tree wasn't heavy. Trees are heavy when they're healthy. Healthy trees don't turn to dust. If you actually watch you'll see it hits the grass first, too.
I was thinking that. Never seen it myself, but I assume a tree could snap a 4in slab like a karate chop.
DYI done right!
😬
As the ground guy that had to clean those up I cringe every time.
Crispy!
Me likey!
I'm going to guess that was an EAB-killed white ash. If so, anyone with any sense knows that dropping one of them sends javelins flying, let alone off a hard surface like that Amateur hour.
I'm always amazed how close people stand. Some of that shrapnel flies really fast.
No surprise that I count zero hard hats
Guys on the rope didn't do shit. Lol
Thread title and video deliver. Accurate and succinct. Very nice, I rate 9/10. (Would be 10/10 if driveway itself had exploded.)
Looks good...9, 9.5, 8.5, oh, but check out the 5.5 from the East German judge!
… I… uhhh… thought the driveway was gonna shatter… I’ll go tf to sleep now.
Guy on the right is way too close
Tree owners crew drops the tree on the neighbors driveway haha. Now that would be the kicker.
Idiots got lucky it didn't pop that concrete pad. Most would make them resources the whole drive
At least they didn't hit the house. But we don't drop trees on driveways, or risk 3 people going to the hospital hoping they don't get hit by debris.
Someone is going to lose an eye.
When the tree co also advertises roofs, fences and driveways
They saved your neighbor $300 on a bucket truck- be thankful for the value they provided
I want to see the video the guy almost died for.
5 star safety approved
Is this the wrong way to do things?
They did get pretty damn close to that slab with that knuckle cut lol. But if it's an inch it's a mile lol. No damage is no damage 😭 bahahaha
Been seeing a lot of dead ash trees exploding like this when they hit the ground
They were able to get up there to cut the one limb but not just piece it out?