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Tree Trimming Gone Bad! (Graphic)
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Posted on 09/20/2012 9:38:25 AM PDT by Orange1998
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=2fe_1348111302
This guy had all the right tools but not the knowledge.
TOPICS: Agriculture; Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: sourcetitlenoturl; tree
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To: null and void
Crossing himself before climbing the tree was a nice touch...
I guess you could say it worked since he ain't dead........LOL
To: Orange1998
Bad decision making. He tied off the branch first by a rope. This took away the natural path the branch would have taken due to gravity. All that energy had to go somewhere so it went the only way it could....towards the guy cutting the branch at the base. Never should have tied that sucker off. Or if he had to he should have tied it closer to the base so the rope would be perpendicular to the ground so it would not swing.
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posted on
09/20/2012 10:29:01 AM PDT
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.)
To: Orange1998
Ouch!
Would make a good safety training film, I’d say!
Yeah, there’s things I’ll do with a chain saw and things I won’t do. This sits firmly in the “won’t do” column.
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posted on
09/20/2012 10:31:20 AM PDT
by
meyer
(It's 1860 all over again - the taxpayer is the new "N" word)
To: albie
A friend of mine has a tree trimming business here in S.E. Michigan. A number of years ago he told me about his sister who attempted to cut a large limb off a tree in her backyard. Evidently it was very high and the ladder was barely able to reach it. So she was at the top of the ladder, when she cut the limb off, the remaing branch which had been weighted down, of course lost the weight and snapped up, throwing her and the ladder backwards. She was seriously hurt with a broken back and internal injuries as well.....
To: Orange1998
That Liveleak video is actually one of the tamer ones. The site is well known for posting gore. Beheadings, murders, nasty accidents and the like. Not a good site for the squeamish.
To: Orange1998
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posted on
09/20/2012 10:52:14 AM PDT
by
DFG
("Dumb, Dependent, and Democrat is no way to go through life" - Louie Gohmert (R-TX))
To: Orange1998
People with the imagination to foresee things like this, lead boring lives.
To: Orange1998
No undercut / backside cut? I’ve dropped 50’ trees between two others in the wind.
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posted on
09/20/2012 1:49:36 PM PDT
by
Arrowhead1952
("It's better to vote for a Republican you don't know than wind up with a dim you don't like".)
To: Arrowhead1952
50’ Tree? Are you kidding me. Hope you did not take it down in swoop.
To: Orange1998
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posted on
09/20/2012 2:28:52 PM PDT
by
Daffynition
(Our forefathers would be shooting by now.)
To: Daffynition
To: Daffynition
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posted on
09/20/2012 2:46:18 PM PDT
by
BerryDingle
(I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
To: BerryDingle
LOL....that sure takes it another level! LOL HAHAHA!
It’s probably the same guy in both applications!
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posted on
09/20/2012 2:59:31 PM PDT
by
Daffynition
(Our forefathers would be shooting by now.)
To: Orange1998
No kidding. We had 50’ tall cedars that we used the first part of the stem for fence corners and the rest for line posts. We'd cut down with a single wedge back-cut and then drop them from the other side. It was kind of hard if the diameter was much more than the length of the blade.
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posted on
09/20/2012 3:10:09 PM PDT
by
Arrowhead1952
("It's better to vote for a Republican you don't know than wind up with a dim you don't like".)
Sounds like I'm glad that I don't have streaming here on dialup.
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posted on
09/21/2012 4:50:31 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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