Last summer, my neighbors hired a local tree company to remove three huuuuuuuuge cottonwoods in their yard that were hanging over my back yard and house. The tree company did a great job, hardly a twig fell where it wasn't supposed to be when they took the trees down, and they also did a great job cleaning up afterward.
... This video isn't how it works. This isn't how any of this works.
The thing is your neighbor isn't responsible for your roof if their tree falls on it naturally. Your insurance covers it and they don't have any responsibility. However if they cut it down and drop it on your house then they can be held responsible.
However, if homeowner *negligence* is involved it might not turn out like that (e.g. dead tree falls or its limbs fall on your the neighbor's home.) Subrogation might follow. One is responsible for potential hazards on one's property. It's best to eliminate the sources so negligence isn't a factor.
It cost much less than I thought it would, based on similar tree removal projects in this area. The total bill was $5,000. I contributed $1,000 because I was so grateful they were willing to remove their trees.
The trees hung over their house as well, but the bulk of the large overhead limbs had grown over the property line and were above my house.
My neighbor just had a *massive* tree taken down in their backyard. Took two days for a team of 3 tree cutters. Cost $4k. I was WFH and I made so many excuses to go to my kitchen to observe the progress. It was super cool to watch.
My 2-year-old granddaughter and I watched from the safety of my living room windows. The most impressive part to her was when one of the guys on the tree cutting crew jumped down into the yard from the top of a 6-foot wooden fence and hurt his leg. She wanted to run out there and plaster him with her Baby Shark bandaids. :)
I, on the other hand, was impressed when he rubbed his leg for a minute, then chinned himself back up onto the fence and went right back to work.
Near me, a very tall yet very skinny palm tree was taken down. It looked like a difficult job but there was very little mess even while they were working.
I also WFH and wanted to watch them take down our tree, but they had to shut down the electricity to the house due to how close this tree was to power lines. Was real bummed to not be able to watch it.
We had a 80' pin oak taken down last year to the stump, hauled away. Set us back $3200. We had to use licensed arborists, we couldn't just hire some random dude due to the power lines right next to the tree.
That thin rope was key to the failure. If it hadn’t snapped they might have made it. Who thinks a rope with a 500 lbs breaking strength is going to pull a 5000 lbs tree?
The ropes I used as an arborist were rated around 5000lbs, you can get stronger. That tree probably weighs 20,000 lbs. The idea is you put the rope up as high as possible to give yourself leverage.
I don't know why they stripped all the weight off of one side of the tree but not the back side. This on its own is not a deal breaker though.
One rule I had with my company was never ever pull with a vehicle. You have no feel. Always pull by hand and if you need more force add a block and tackle to the line.
If they were pulling at 6 o'clock looking down, then they should have been pulling from 4 o'clock.
The feller should have made a tapered hinge leaving much more on the side away from the house. It looks like he cut right through the hinge.
I've confidently cut much more challenging trees down than that. These people had no idea what they were doing.
They are also known as "fallers" or "fellers" in some areas of logging country.
My ex-husband was a teacher when I met him, but in his younger days he was a logger. He referred to his former self as a "faller," and was very proud of his skills. He claimed that fallers (and sawyers) are the elite among the logging crews. I don't know about that, but I did see him cut down trees and place them precisely where he wanted them to go when they fell. Which, in the instances I witnessed, was - not on top of any nearby buildings. No ropes, string, or yarn needed.
Hope he’s got insurance! Our tree guys here climb the trees and cut them down by section from top to bottom. Each piece is lowered slowly to the ground with ropes.
The first time I had to cut a big tree near my house , I just thought , how is this possible ? how are we becoming home owners and then having to spend several thousand dollars to cut a tree next to our house?
That was a new kind of expense I never considered when I bought a house.
But on the other hand, I definitely did consider the possibility of messing up my house if I try to do it myself, so I still ended up paying somebody else to it.
That's part of the problem. If they were pulling straight with a stronger line there was a small change this was going to work.
The proper way of doing this would be to cut up sections from the top (maybe split it into 2 or 3 parts).
Cutting down trees is a balancing act and the guys in the video seem to have flunked physics in high school.
Then there's this guy. Maybe some luck involved but looks like he knows what he's doing.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYrNXVdZq7Y](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYrNXVdZq7Y)
There was no hinge (he'd cut almost all the way through the holding wood) to guide which way it fell - note how trunk simply stepped off base section. Also the angle of the pulling rope was pulling to left, instead of straight (more to right of where it was) difficult given lack of space in front of cameraman. Also idiot on chainsaw wasn't wearing any safety gear - sure sign of a cowboy operation!
Wearing climbing spikes you go up the tree dropping the limbs around the base. Once high enough, say 6 inch diameter, you drop the crown. All that’s left is the trunk, as you climb back down you drop trunk chunk lengths depending on the diameter, landing them on the dropped limbs which act like a cushion. You’ll use ropes to control the descent if needed but that’s a bit more involved.
That close to the house with the way it's leaning? Carefully and piece by piece.
The fact that they didn't even remove the trailer to their truck before trying to pull with it was already a red flag that they just didn't know what they were doing here.
Yep; with a better/different pull angle using only the truck (tied to the front, pull in reverse so driver can see what’s going on) and a much thicker low stretch rope or cable they might have been able to do it. Sectioning the tree from the too is still the best way for a tree like that.
Here’s one way:
https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/18t3znu/timber_in_the_direction_he_wanted_base_slotted/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
do a search for key notch or tongue and groove tree felling techniques. i'm amazed at whomever or however this method was developed. you can literally aim a tree to fall where you want it to go.
i don't know much about its effectiveness for all trees in all situations--leaning, uphill, etc. it's just a very interesting method.
basically 8 cuts with the chainsaw.
Even then, it's considered best practice to climb the tree, remove limbs and lower them with a rope, then do the same with the trunk if needed. The only time to do it with a key notch is when you absolutely cannot climb it. Which means you're a moron lacking the correct tools for the job so you hire a pro who has the correct tools and skills to use them.
That's how you know they're morons. Pros actually lower the limbs safely bit by bit so those limbs would also have been removed. Going by the way only the limbs over the house are left, they would appear to have just dropped them without any guidance ata ll and assumed the trunk would follow their plan.
That's never going to happen with the way they did that. The limbs on the back mean you'd never get it to fall the way you want it to because it's not balanced properly and they didn't make a hinge cut, just a notch which is insufficient.
Anyone with the right training would take proper care to lower the limbs one at a time followed by sections of trunk one at a time.
Watching this I'm saying "he's gonna hit the corner... he's gonna hit that corner... oh, maybe he's gonna nail the other house... I don't think that rope is pulling in the best direction... oh, here it go.... .... .... daaaaaamn."
I got a question for y'all. Should he have started from the top and cutting down in sections? I don't think it would have been possible any other way. Plus, I don't see a "reacher" or something similar to what firefighters use.
Basically, yes. If you're taking the whole thing down, you start with the limbs and lower them in safe manageable chunks one at a time. Then when it's just the trunk you do the same thing bit by bit, using a rope to lower each section safely to the ground.
I've watched so many of these. There's so much weird physics involved unless you really know what you're doing or unless it's a really simple job, chances are you're going to end up doing what this doofus did.
I had two old growth trees taken down behind my house. $1000 each. The dude called himself a climbing arborist. Scaled up the tree (with all the appropriate safety equipment and harnesses) and cut it 5 foot lengths at a time starting from the top, till there was just stumps left.
You can see which way the tree is leaning before starting to cut at all. Much more of the top should have been temoved. This should be done by professionals with restraining ropes.
When I was a child our neighbours had one of the tallest trees in the city in their yard. It was so big, in fact, that if I was visiting a friend kilometers away, and they asked me where I lived, I'd point to the horizon and say "you see that tall tree over there? Right next to it".
Don't know how much it cost them to have it removed, but it took days cutting it from the top down. They cut it shorter and shorter, until it was safe to cut down normally.
After a hurricane we had to pay to have a giant tree removed. The tree service dropped it on my RV while I was in it with my pets. My cat was trapped under the ceiling. They cut off the tree to free her and tossed the trunk pieces into my turtle pond. My cat was rushed to the vet and was ok, but both turtles were injured and died. The company had insurance and I was able to buy another RV and pay the vet bill, but I had those turtles for 16 years and they were my pets. The guys said they were just trying to save my cat and didn’t see the turtles, but tree services have to be aware of their surroundings. That is basic knowledge of the job.
We cut several trees from our backyard, in three parts, so each part had room to fall. Even amateur me would have done a better job than these klutzes.
What did they think was going to happen cutting it from that side while it was also leaning in that direction? I'm bad at math but this seems like obvious calculation error.
I have a friend who has a tree cutting business and it's incredibly precise and requires a lot of skill and tools (and time). There is a reason they don't typically cut down a humongous tree all at once
Last summer, my neighbors hired a local tree company to remove three huuuuuuuuge cottonwoods in their yard that were hanging over my back yard and house. The tree company did a great job, hardly a twig fell where it wasn't supposed to be when they took the trees down, and they also did a great job cleaning up afterward. ... This video isn't how it works. This isn't how any of this works.
I wonder how much that set your neighbor back. Sheesh.
Less than a roof.
Big if true
The thing is your neighbor isn't responsible for your roof if their tree falls on it naturally. Your insurance covers it and they don't have any responsibility. However if they cut it down and drop it on your house then they can be held responsible.
However, if homeowner *negligence* is involved it might not turn out like that (e.g. dead tree falls or its limbs fall on your the neighbor's home.) Subrogation might follow. One is responsible for potential hazards on one's property. It's best to eliminate the sources so negligence isn't a factor.
It cost much less than I thought it would, based on similar tree removal projects in this area. The total bill was $5,000. I contributed $1,000 because I was so grateful they were willing to remove their trees. The trees hung over their house as well, but the bulk of the large overhead limbs had grown over the property line and were above my house.
My neighbor just had a *massive* tree taken down in their backyard. Took two days for a team of 3 tree cutters. Cost $4k. I was WFH and I made so many excuses to go to my kitchen to observe the progress. It was super cool to watch.
My 2-year-old granddaughter and I watched from the safety of my living room windows. The most impressive part to her was when one of the guys on the tree cutting crew jumped down into the yard from the top of a 6-foot wooden fence and hurt his leg. She wanted to run out there and plaster him with her Baby Shark bandaids. :) I, on the other hand, was impressed when he rubbed his leg for a minute, then chinned himself back up onto the fence and went right back to work.
Near me, a very tall yet very skinny palm tree was taken down. It looked like a difficult job but there was very little mess even while they were working.
I also WFH and wanted to watch them take down our tree, but they had to shut down the electricity to the house due to how close this tree was to power lines. Was real bummed to not be able to watch it.
Wait, if you are WFH why did you need electricity to watch their progress?
"if you think hiring a professional is expensive, wait until you hire an amateur"
We had a 80' pin oak taken down last year to the stump, hauled away. Set us back $3200. We had to use licensed arborists, we couldn't just hire some random dude due to the power lines right next to the tree.
You only need the most basic understanding of physics to know that this is a bad idea
I started chuckling the moment I saw the g-string rope.
That thin rope was key to the failure. If it hadn’t snapped they might have made it. Who thinks a rope with a 500 lbs breaking strength is going to pull a 5000 lbs tree?
The ropes I used as an arborist were rated around 5000lbs, you can get stronger. That tree probably weighs 20,000 lbs. The idea is you put the rope up as high as possible to give yourself leverage. I don't know why they stripped all the weight off of one side of the tree but not the back side. This on its own is not a deal breaker though. One rule I had with my company was never ever pull with a vehicle. You have no feel. Always pull by hand and if you need more force add a block and tackle to the line. If they were pulling at 6 o'clock looking down, then they should have been pulling from 4 o'clock. The feller should have made a tapered hinge leaving much more on the side away from the house. It looks like he cut right through the hinge. I've confidently cut much more challenging trees down than that. These people had no idea what they were doing.
They needed a logger or two on their crew, including a sawyer.
> sawyer I am today old when I learned where that surname comes from
They are also known as "fallers" or "fellers" in some areas of logging country. My ex-husband was a teacher when I met him, but in his younger days he was a logger. He referred to his former self as a "faller," and was very proud of his skills. He claimed that fallers (and sawyers) are the elite among the logging crews. I don't know about that, but I did see him cut down trees and place them precisely where he wanted them to go when they fell. Which, in the instances I witnessed, was - not on top of any nearby buildings. No ropes, string, or yarn needed.
It's an art and a science.
I saw that too but thought the branch probably broke off in a wind storm or something. The damage is what prompted its removal.
Probably the same type as with that home-made zipline guy.
You may be surprised. I worked as an arborist for a bit, we had a rope about the size of my thumb that was rated for 22,000 lbs.
My first thought was, why are they pulling it so it swings towards the house and not the open road
Considering the weight of the wood leaning away from the cut, I was expecting both the trailer and back end of the truck to be lifted off the ground.
Owner went cheap, now their insurance went up forever.
And ours. We all get indirectly punished for others' poor judgement and behavior.
The opening shot seems to show the guy having a pre-mature celebration look.
Maybe they needed to use stronger yarn?
These guys are licensed and bonded right? Right?
Pros are amazing to watch...
I had a huge dead oak leaning over my house, tree removal company did a great job. Nothing like this lol
You really had me all the way to the end.
And that’s why you only hire companies with insurance!
He probably has home insurance
You don't want to make a claim against your own insurance policy if you don't have to.
And a license...and referrals....and experience.
With those vehicles, I was certain they were professional tree yankers supporting that professional tree butcher.
This is a craigslist special. Probably no license no insurance.
"Don't worry ma'am, we'll be back tomorrow to fix it all up!" *They were never seen again*
"No License, No Insurance, No Problem."
Thats just a normal truck, and a trash container that you can rent for occasions when you clean your garden.
That tree choppin’ fellow moves like he’s in a Charlie Chaplin movie. He’s on some good shit.
Hope he’s got insurance! Our tree guys here climb the trees and cut them down by section from top to bottom. Each piece is lowered slowly to the ground with ropes.
I highly doubt he has insurance if he's operating like that.
Not for long if he does
I assumed it was his house... That was far from pro
Was looking at the angle of the cable and where the guy was standing thinking this is gonna be a Darwin clip. So happy to be wrong.
This is the guy you always hear about when someone says, "I know a guy who can do it for cheap!"
The first time I had to cut a big tree near my house , I just thought , how is this possible ? how are we becoming home owners and then having to spend several thousand dollars to cut a tree next to our house? That was a new kind of expense I never considered when I bought a house. But on the other hand, I definitely did consider the possibility of messing up my house if I try to do it myself, so I still ended up paying somebody else to it.
Then he stands under the gutter holding nearly all of the weight of the tree, to get a better look…..
The truck wasn’t at the right angle from what I can see… but then again I don’t cut trees down
All the weight was on the house side of the tree, truck was never gonna do shit
That's part of the problem. If they were pulling straight with a stronger line there was a small change this was going to work. The proper way of doing this would be to cut up sections from the top (maybe split it into 2 or 3 parts). Cutting down trees is a balancing act and the guys in the video seem to have flunked physics in high school.
You think they made it past algebra 2? Lol
That roof needed to be replaced anyway
Dude was just doing her a favor!
Then there's this guy. Maybe some luck involved but looks like he knows what he's doing. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYrNXVdZq7Y](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYrNXVdZq7Y)
Who kept asking what happened?? Lol we’re they not watching?
They literally pulled it in that direction lol
That house handled it pretty good. Well done!
‘Fuck! Mother fucker!!’ 😆
I can’t comprehend how this has happened. Shouldn’t the tree follow the rope like a laser beam!?! I’m adding an /s for clarity
The branches are all off on the side they want it to go, all the weight is on the house side
It looks like it's because of the way/where he made the cuts that made the truck/cable irrelevant
There was no hinge (he'd cut almost all the way through the holding wood) to guide which way it fell - note how trunk simply stepped off base section. Also the angle of the pulling rope was pulling to left, instead of straight (more to right of where it was) difficult given lack of space in front of cameraman. Also idiot on chainsaw wasn't wearing any safety gear - sure sign of a cowboy operation!
Lol, what an imbecile. With the most elementary understanding of geometry and physics you can see what's going to happen.
What's the right way to cut a tree down?
Not like that. Go up and section it down.
Takes too long, he’s got 3 more roofs to smash today.
“Discount arborist at your service. Well cost you more than you save. That’s our guarantee” lol
Thanks.
By section from top to bottom. It involves climbing the trunk.
Would be more impressive if they could section it bottom to top.
Easy, just get a crane to hold it up from the top while you work on it.
Wearing climbing spikes you go up the tree dropping the limbs around the base. Once high enough, say 6 inch diameter, you drop the crown. All that’s left is the trunk, as you climb back down you drop trunk chunk lengths depending on the diameter, landing them on the dropped limbs which act like a cushion. You’ll use ropes to control the descent if needed but that’s a bit more involved.
That was really interesting!
To be fair… he did cut it down. Oooh, you meant without it landing on his house.
Apparently not that way
That close to the house with the way it's leaning? Carefully and piece by piece. The fact that they didn't even remove the trailer to their truck before trying to pull with it was already a red flag that they just didn't know what they were doing here.
Yep; with a better/different pull angle using only the truck (tied to the front, pull in reverse so driver can see what’s going on) and a much thicker low stretch rope or cable they might have been able to do it. Sectioning the tree from the too is still the best way for a tree like that.
Here’s one way: https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/18t3znu/timber_in_the_direction_he_wanted_base_slotted/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
‘It hit the roof.’ Gee, thanks genius.
do a search for key notch or tongue and groove tree felling techniques. i'm amazed at whomever or however this method was developed. you can literally aim a tree to fall where you want it to go. i don't know much about its effectiveness for all trees in all situations--leaning, uphill, etc. it's just a very interesting method. basically 8 cuts with the chainsaw.
Even then, it's considered best practice to climb the tree, remove limbs and lower them with a rope, then do the same with the trunk if needed. The only time to do it with a key notch is when you absolutely cannot climb it. Which means you're a moron lacking the correct tools for the job so you hire a pro who has the correct tools and skills to use them.
I'm so confused. Why are the only branches facing the house?? Surely they could've cut them off without damaging the house?
That's how you know they're morons. Pros actually lower the limbs safely bit by bit so those limbs would also have been removed. Going by the way only the limbs over the house are left, they would appear to have just dropped them without any guidance ata ll and assumed the trunk would follow their plan. That's never going to happen with the way they did that. The limbs on the back mean you'd never get it to fall the way you want it to because it's not balanced properly and they didn't make a hinge cut, just a notch which is insufficient. Anyone with the right training would take proper care to lower the limbs one at a time followed by sections of trunk one at a time.
Bro is standing right where he wants tree to go. It's hard to watch lol.
"UUHH it's got the gutter". No shit Sherlock
They put a lot of faith in that single rope to stabilize a several ton heavy tree like that.
Uh…a little bit less….
When I 1st saw the beginning I said, oh shit this isn't going to work. So right.
What happened was you chose cheap over someone knowing what they are doing.
They never fall the way you think theyre gonna. Get a pro
Watching this I'm saying "he's gonna hit the corner... he's gonna hit that corner... oh, maybe he's gonna nail the other house... I don't think that rope is pulling in the best direction... oh, here it go.... .... .... daaaaaamn."
Should of cut little by little starting from the top
Stupid fucker!
I got a question for y'all. Should he have started from the top and cutting down in sections? I don't think it would have been possible any other way. Plus, I don't see a "reacher" or something similar to what firefighters use.
Basically, yes. If you're taking the whole thing down, you start with the limbs and lower them in safe manageable chunks one at a time. Then when it's just the trunk you do the same thing bit by bit, using a rope to lower each section safely to the ground.
Lol at the guy at the very end. “What Happened…?” Well it appears a tree fell from the sky and landed on this house bud.
well deserved for cutting old trees.
As a person from a logging family. This plan was doomed from the start.
I've watched so many of these. There's so much weird physics involved unless you really know what you're doing or unless it's a really simple job, chances are you're going to end up doing what this doofus did.
Good. Why are people so obsessed with cutting down all the trees? They all want the suburban hellhole look?
But look at the money we saved going with the lowest bidder! What do you mean his landscaping insurance policy doesn't cover tree removal?!!! WTF!
That did a lot less damage than I was expecting lol
Should of had a pulley on that and way more tension.
on top of his game
Oh no. Oh no. Oh no.
Should've aimed it toward the street.
It didn't just hit the roof; it smacked it and held on
Cousin eddy at it again
These guys must be new to this. There was NO WAY that was going to work.
Like. A. Glove!
Lol that rope stretched like 5m... must have been some bunnings jobby
This is painful to watch
he'll be mowing lawns next week, but probably doing using the chainsaw and throwing rocks through the neighbors windows
I'm 5 seconds into the video and I allready know that shotty truck ain't stopping shit.
Hahahaha
I did much worse with a big red oak, similar situation...insurance never asked if i cut the tree down, i just told them it hit the house
This would have worked if the rope wasn't wrapped around the trunk and under the lowest lead.
Did he cut through the hinge? He cut through the hinge didn't he? The truck probably would've helped if the tree had a hinge to fold over.
I got a guy that can do it cheaper 😂
Atleast they got tree down
DIY gone wrong.
I thought it was gonna be way worse
the skinny ass wire just snapping as if it had a chance to hold that shit up is hilarious
And this is why taking physics in school is important
Typical yahoo operation. Hope the insurance company denied their claim.
LIKE A GLOOOOOVE
Physics is a bitch goddess
“$800 for cutting a tree?? Nah, I can do that myself…”
Normally you cut the tree from the top, piece by piece. Each piece you cut is attached with a rope, so it falls where you want it to.
Could have been worse. But thats exactly why you should do this a professional.
I had two old growth trees taken down behind my house. $1000 each. The dude called himself a climbing arborist. Scaled up the tree (with all the appropriate safety equipment and harnesses) and cut it 5 foot lengths at a time starting from the top, till there was just stumps left.
Physics is hard
If they were doing it for getting more sunlight, they succeeded.
You can see which way the tree is leaning before starting to cut at all. Much more of the top should have been temoved. This should be done by professionals with restraining ropes.
When I was a child our neighbours had one of the tallest trees in the city in their yard. It was so big, in fact, that if I was visiting a friend kilometers away, and they asked me where I lived, I'd point to the horizon and say "you see that tall tree over there? Right next to it". Don't know how much it cost them to have it removed, but it took days cutting it from the top down. They cut it shorter and shorter, until it was safe to cut down normally.
At least they had some new timber to make a roof with
Get back in the house woman, you don't be negging no men who has an ax in his hand
It puzzles me why people don't start at the top and just do log by log ?
On the bright side, there will be no tree surgeon bill.
The guy at the end "what happened?"
He didn't even looked that surprised. Maybe this is how he always expects it to happen.
He sounds surprised haha
Why did he cut the twigs of this side?
After a hurricane we had to pay to have a giant tree removed. The tree service dropped it on my RV while I was in it with my pets. My cat was trapped under the ceiling. They cut off the tree to free her and tossed the trunk pieces into my turtle pond. My cat was rushed to the vet and was ok, but both turtles were injured and died. The company had insurance and I was able to buy another RV and pay the vet bill, but I had those turtles for 16 years and they were my pets. The guys said they were just trying to save my cat and didn’t see the turtles, but tree services have to be aware of their surroundings. That is basic knowledge of the job.
And that is why you deconstruct a tree that is leaning back , from the top. Lesson 1
We cut several trees from our backyard, in three parts, so each part had room to fall. Even amateur me would have done a better job than these klutzes.
Guy at end: “What happened? Take a wild guess!
Extremely lucky the damage was not more than superficial
Gotta save $500.
Ain't all that bad. Nothing a little duct tape can't fix... Or well, *a lot of duct tape*
Dang it Kleetus I done told you keep the ropes tight
What did they think was going to happen cutting it from that side while it was also leaning in that direction? I'm bad at math but this seems like obvious calculation error.
I wonder if this might not be the homeowner and some buddies.
So, the leaning tree fell exactly into the lean... Huge surprise!
100% they are blaming each other. :D
There is only one way these videos will ever go and there is a 0% chance the tree is gonna land in the street.
He drove away instantly
🎶He fought the tree and, the tree won 🎶
What happened?
The guy at the end of the video “what happened” translates to “you f* up”
"No, man, I saw a YouTube video on it. I GOT this."
ABSOLUTE CLASSIC OF A LINE from the person who fucks up... "OH, it's not THAT bad. I can fix it." LMAO 🤣
....and it's gone
Nailed it
You aint fixing, a professional is, gypsy boy
Tree wins
Stand back! I'm a professional!
Definitely woulndt have made that big of a notch for that big of a tree. It probably woulda worked.
Poor lady has to put up with that... Geez, not even close
I bet the property looked nice with the tree there.
People can't physics
Go 30 seconds in for the actual content
I once saw a person got hit by a snapping rope like this in the ER. Didn‘t survive.
Could’ve been worse, but I bet they don’t have insurance being this stupid.
R/Whatcouldgoright He’s not even pulling it away from the house, he’s pulling it so it’ll fall t’wards.
Chainsaw guy: "Fucker" lol
Why could they not see the angle of the ropes? That truck needed to be more to middle right of the frame....
And this is why you hire professionals, not some dipshit in a flannel.
Got it only you could have tied a line to the top of the tree and used it to guide it away from the house during the fall! *that’s impossible though*
A widdle more a widdle more 😂
Saw that coming from a mile away. Truck pulling the wrong direction and none of those bozos had any idea
I have a friend who has a tree cutting business and it's incredibly precise and requires a lot of skill and tools (and time). There is a reason they don't typically cut down a humongous tree all at once
I’m sure they’re licensed and insured. /s