Tree felling vids

[CurSedVoyce]

I'm afraid he's gone rogue on us Jay... He just plucks em like weeds with the excavator or Gehl now

 

[woodworkingboy]

Too bad, Stephen. That happens with extreme talent and not appreciating it, consequently giving it up so easily. Who are we talking about?

 

[CurSedVoyce]

 

[pantheraba]

hahaha...no smart comment...just laughing.

 

[NHlocal]

hahaha...no smart comment...just laughing.

 

[mistahbenn]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJZ8FJL3wCE
Gittin her done

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[Adam_P]

Looking good, Ben. Must have been fun getting all that out after it was on the ground.

 

[woodworkingboy]

Nice vid and work, but with all due respect, that fellow down below at 1:05, he needs to be a bit less eager and get a decent hat. Friggen blow out your brains or sumpin.... It wasn't a job I was on, but i know a guy in Point Reyes Station that died on the spot that way.

 

[mistahbenn]

I know! He does wear his helmet sometimes, I do tell him but he is who he is!

 

[pete mctree]

Nice job. Which headcam do you prefer as I'm looking to buy one soonish?

 

[mistahbenn]

Cheers Pete, they are both similar really, the contour is easiest to use, just slide the on switch... Better sound too. I think the next drift up might be nice...

 

[mistahbenn]

Cheers Pete, they are both similar really, the contour is easiest to use, just slide the on switch... Better sound too. I think the next drift up might be nice...

 

[MasterBlaster]

I know! He does wear his helmet sometimes, I do tell him but he is who he is!

At least he has a hard head - that might help!

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Nice Ben. Dang big mulberry. Darn thing about shade a neighborhood..

 

[Tucker943]

Ben, you rig wood like a damn man! I like that. That's the stuff that blows my hair back. Some real rigging.

 

[mistahbenn]

Cheers Ste and Tuck. I try to go as big as the circumstance allows! Spent most of the day moving the wood from that mulberry! Was a shit load!

 

[NHlocal]

Just curious, why did the home owner want the tree taken down? Getting too big, becoming a hazard, declining health.....

Great job rigging it out.

 

[mistahbenn]

Cos it had a huge split right up the middle of the main stem.....Thats what mulberry's like to do, and it had gotten bigger lately....

 

[MasterBlaster]

It sucks when we've gotta kill a nice tree. :>(

 

[Tucker943]

Mulberry is some HEAVY shat.

 

[mistahbenn]

Butch, business is business! Mulberry is fo sho heavy!

 

[NHlocal]

.....

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Mulberry is serious heavy in spring. Wood turning would probably like getting hold of some of that

 

[stig]

Also a very beautiful, easy to work, wood.
We are at the nortern limit of their tolerance here, so I rarely see one, and when I do, they are small.

If I felled one like that one, I'd probably have some 50 woodturners from all over the country lined up, wallets in hand.

 

[woodworkingboy]

Yeah, I was gonna say.....

Some of the most adept woodworkers that have ever picked up a plane and chisel, favored Mulberry.