A Lucky Feller (vid)

[NickfromWI]

This guy really lucked out. Wish I coulda seen his notch.

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[sotc]

Jed!?

 

[Birdy]

"Wait oh F@$#" too funny. Reminds me of the time we were pruning for a customer and he asked us to help out his friend who had got into a fix trying to fell a tree the crown was stacked in the opposit direction to his notch which he had set off the top of a step ladder and he had re cut so many times he had like 3" of holding wood left. We managed to throw a line in and with four of us pull it over the direction he wanted it to go but sketchy didn't even come into it. The homeowner nor the guy felling the tree said anything to us not a word of thanks or anything. It may have had something to do with us laughing like drains when we saw what was going on.

 

[woodworkingboy]

Haven't you guys ever heard of the 'roof bounce' cut? Might be Scandinavian.

 

[pigwot]

Yeah, maybe Stig could shed(roof) some light on that Scandi 'roof bounce' cut

 

[stig]

Hey, is this " let us mob the scandinavians" day?

I did actually make a long pine branch bounce off the ground hard enough to jump up and crack a roof shingle a couple of years back, but I swear, I've never felled a tree across a roof.

 

[thattreeguy]

i can watch this type of stuff all day

 

[No_Bivy]

roof needs work anywho

 

[Peter]

Obviously didnt angle his backcut properly.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Fella needs a skid steer....

 

[flushcut]

I like the comments from the guys in the background. Good stuff!

 

[MasterBlaster]

At least it wasn't a big tree. Wow.

 

[Underwor]

I once had the opportunity to drop a large Silver Maple on a small house that was getting demolished on an old farmstead. It was one of those little Sears, Roebuck and Company mail order homes from the 20's or 30's. I dropped each of 3 2 foot plus diameter leads onto the roof. Each slid down the roof, bounced off the front porch roof, which was supported by 2 decorative columns about 3" diameter each, and did not disturb a shingle.

It made me feel better however when the dozer operator pushed it, from one corner and then a second, until it was half suspended over the basement before a window cracked. That sucker was built solid.

 

[Paul B]

One of my clients grew up in one of those houses, even had it moved in her teen years to a different homestead altogether. I bet they were sturdy buggers.

 

[MasterBlaster]

I never even knew they existed. I've been reading up!

 

[Al Smith]

Sears sold a bunch of prefab houses .

You have to remember Sears and Roebuck had credit before there were credit cards .Fact is during the depression they were the only ones that would extent credit to my grandfather when he went into farming .He remained a loyal customer with them the rest of his life .

 

[gf beranek]

Yeah he lucked out alright. A bigger tree could have been a disaster. For a second I thought he might get the butt on him.

 

[woodworkingboy]

That tree appeared to fall just the way it was leaning....imagine that!

 

[Jed]

Nah Willie: That saw was too level to be mine.

 

[forestryworks]

Feller? You mean fella?

There are only fallers, cause fell is past tense.