Whoever edited the video deserves props as well as the crew. I love how you hear the last rev and then tree chunks drop away. That's what made the whole thing for me. Little talking and tons of tree falling. Great job 👏
I’m surprised the big beautiful tree didn’t totally split a long time ago. They saved their home by the severe trim. I don’t think many people really realize how heavy one tree limb is😶 Great job!👍🏻🌻
@@Lisac4441 Lisa, I don't think Jesus would have been too keen on an automated proselytizing computer program that spams youtube videos. As much as it may pain you to report a Bible verse, you should because spam is bad and the robots are bad too.
Awesome. In my younger years I did this kind of work and fully appreciate the complexity. I climbed trees for several years and did not get hurt or crash anything ... I had a great teacher & I was very lucky. You guys are pros of the pros.
@@AugustHunicke Was literally talking to my dad about cutting down the giant tree in our yard just yesterday and youtube shows me this! 😨 Greatly enjoyed it though!
@broncosolid, try it irl, it is really addicting, the smell of fresh sawdust mixed with 2stroke fuel, and the satisfaction of hearing those limbs hit, it's pretty sweet. And I'm a tree lover thru and thru, but sawing thru these huge organisms is hella fun!
This is so nice to watch. I trained in Arboriculture many years ago, attracted by the artistic side of the work. I think I remember being told there were two sides, those who enjoyed takedowns, as of pines and using cleats and those who liked the repair and forming work. Each had value.A
@@gruponeutro working with the best equipment and tools in order to finish the job faster and more efficiently is part of the definition of being a professional
@@kevino1489 but you guys do just tree removal how about trim them thats different then just removed it... i will love to see your guys work not just remove the whole thing
My dad was an old Tree Man from NC. I've seen quite a few emergency situations just like this. We were in SoCal. The winds and the eucalyptus were nasty as hell. But my uncle would throw on his climbers and up he went. Swaying back and forth with gusts to probably 20-30. You do great work August. It was cool as hell watching you do your mastery. Stay safe and keep the feet pointed down. Thanks for a great video
That wasn't too sketchy and the awareness of what's going to happen is what matters most. Been doing a lot of residential dead ash trees with decent spread. Nice work as always!
A nice and professional job done August, I can see that you have a passion for trees. What is so sad for all old trees is that they cannot move anywhere and are at the mercy of anybody with a chainsaw and in this case the tree was there first so it was good that the home owners didn't take it out but lightened it's load so it could live longer. I highly recommend a book that changed my views on farming and managing nature called 'Wilding'. it's written by an English lady with a name I'd like called Isabella Tree, I have even met her and seen one of her talks and at the moment she's travelling around the US, so go and see a talk if you can. She and her husband Charlie have a dairy farm of about 3,500 hectares in Sussex, England and by pure luck decided to quit farming in about 2000 just before the foot & mouth disease that nearly wiped out Britain's dairy farm industry. They sold all their farming equipment and dairy herd and left their land to look after itself with ponies, beaver, pigs, deer and long-horned cattle to do most of the land management. 20 years on their efforts have been rewarded and the results can be seen at the Knepp Farm Estate where they do safari's and wedding events. Their book has an entire chapter about trees which has some amazing facts about trees which you may or may not know. They are also lucky to have some very ancient Oak trees and the facts and anecdotes that she write about those trees are really cool especially the symbiotic relationship that they have with a member of the Corvid family, the Jay. Oak trees will actually put down branches to the ground so that they can help support their own weight. Unfortunately because we humans have an idealised view of how trees should look the trees that grow in the urban environment usually have these limbs chopped off. In the UK there are about 8 to 900 or so of these really ancient (500 years plus) beauties and in the whole of Europe there are about 1,200 of them. Anyway, keep up the good work and video's and just in case you want to know more about sustainable buildings using cob, lime mortars/plasters or even straw-bale structure then please contact me here on RUclips and I'll do what I can to answer you, I don't advertise as all my work is by word of mouth. Also I get no money from talking about Isabella's book or the Knepp estate, I do it because the whole world should do this, rewilding would probably help to save our planet, it would certainly help to stop all the flooding that happens.
Suggestion: next time show how you tied the ropes before the cuts, the knots are always tight and secure, seems an important part of a good cut you are bypassing
like the safety precautions..good boom truck, good coworker who is alert and able, safety ropes..and not being to aggressive..pros!..and 329 nay sayers who can do it better..
that looks like some good wood coming off that tree. a suggestion, if i may?......send some of it to a place like the "guitar clinic" in hamilton, ontario.
There is a tree in the neighborhood that has a big split in it like this one. It has a big chunk of chain wrapped around it holding it together. Looks like it has been that way quite awhile. There are spots where the tree has grown completely over the chain.
@@gorillaau Humans are tricky to judge in that regard. Since we breed in any season, we need to hold back on pruning those extra gazebos and shutters etc, until after mating is completed!
Adam is the MVP of the day, its easy to ride around in a carnival ride, talk smart and run the chainsaw, the ground man does the bulk of the work and make or breaks the day. Hats off to you sir....P.S. if things don't work out for you with August, I will pay you $1,000,000 to come work with me, just saying................
Great explanation from Damien around 2:00+ (yes, make sense). Question(s), please .... Is cabling not an option *after* a tree has *already* split? e.g. for a tree with a a split like that one had, nothing can be done to make it safe/enjoyable for any reasonable amount of time(?) thanks!
The time for saving that tree would have been by end weight reduction pruning prior to the failure. After a failure of that magnitude on a tree of that magnitude and a location of that magnitude I will never recommend rescue of the tree. No bracing. No cabling. No pruning. Instead, a new era.
We had a large Oak with 3 Trunks. It was over 15' in circumference, 4' off the ground. The Canopy spanned 97'. Some people suggested cabling it for added strength. The center of the trunks had a deep bowl that water would get into and sit. There was a crack that started at bowl and went down between trunks. We knew it would go some day. We had a rope swing on it for years. Luckly it sat 120 yards behind house. One breezy day 3 years after seeing the crack it split into 3rds. No words could describe the sadness I felt. I knew we were not the only ones that enjoyed it. The kids had found an old coin from the mid 1700's under the tree, prior to it coming down.
Wow, nice teamwork with the cutting and dropping / placement of the branch sections. Also, I'm subbed to a few wood turning channels & I'd be willing to bet those guys would love to get their creative hands and carving tools on the pieces that were cut at about 8:55 & 10:51. 😁. Bye for now, I'm gonna go watch part 2.
In the UK a job that like that would be 2k, more then likely over 3k. My best guess would be 4k-4.5k. Baring in mind wagers are lower in the UK then the US, so even ignoring exchange rates that's probably equivalent to about 6 or 7k US.
Never had a problem with the oak behind my boyhood home. An arborist estimated it’s 500 years old, and estimated it pulls up 800 gallons of water every day. My father was a land surveyor so when he said it was 192 feet drip edge to drip edge I believe it. And after he retired, during an exceptionally productive year he actually weighed the acorns he raked up. 11,750 pounds of acorns! And it never had any significant branch break off in 58 years.
@@AugustHunicke They are called Valley Oaks in California’s Sacramento valley. I don’t know any other name for them. And oddly, the summers are so hot they aren’t affected by Sudden Oak Death.
When the tree's have multiple shoots and when they mature they look good.....but are the worst of any tree , did you not see the crack ? That right should have given you a heads up! Your post went contrary to what your eye balls seen!
@@darrenkastl8160 yes i seen the crack I was talking about the tree was a good looking tree itself and sad to see the weight of the tree split it. If you would have read my full comment I also said they shouldnt have let it get that bad as in trimming it in order to keep this from happening. Atleast know what your talking about before jumping on a comment.
Their "trimming" was doubtless the problem. Canopy elevations and lion tailing branches every time that they begin to re-establish interior growth is why trees like that fall apart. Proper pruning is difficult, which is why not many of us do it. Some calculated structural pruning for a couple of decades prior would have made failures like that one very rare indeed.
This might sound silly. I was a bucket man for years. But, why paint the boom black? certain paint colors (black) contain metal pigment. Like iron oxide which could compromise the dielectric (insulation) value if by chance you came near or contacted a tree that was touching electrical lines. Plus it makes it harder to see in a tree. Just an observation. We used power wash our booms,inside and out, because of saw dust and oils could make it conductive.
I don’t do powerline work. What’s funny is I told the painter to paint the truck black and white. I never meant the boom 😁. I assumed his color scheme would naturally include a white boom.
yeah that crack was a little bit scary .. good job getting out there quick and keeping them safe.. they're gonna burn it hmmm would be nice to see some furniture come out of that... its so old
I am going to make some cool slab wood pieces out of it. As well as a couple big block tables. I am letting it weather for a bit. It’s drying pretty quickly with this oregon heat.
@@keystonedesigns that would be really nice this guy is pretty cool and does stuff like that ruclips.net/video/K9gCdLd2R7s/видео.html good luck to you :o)
I think that the home owners should have been having that beautiful tree monitored and trimmed more often and starting from years back. Perhaps the tree would not have cracked?
Is it possible to save a tree like this by using long anchors that screw in from side cracked all the way to solid wood on other trunk? They could be counter sunk and the holes filled with a dark paste to blend in. I'm just thinking out of the box.
Very entertaining in a multitude of ways. That was a lot of wood expertly processed from start to finish, well done. I hope the client appreciates just how difficult that was and just how it could have been disastrous in the wrong hands. What was the cost of this job? Must have been a monster bill for such a monster tree and where it was, requiring a lot of expensive equipment? Only very very slightly negative thing I thought was that some of the heavier wood should not have been put through the chipper but used either for burning or craft work but that's just me being a typical thrifty Scot. Well done for all the hard work and for letting us virtual loggers be a part of your exciting world. Great stuff!!!
It won't be long before tree-crawling little robots make their way into the tree cutting business. Not long after, the first of a long list of "out-of-control" robot tree cutter slasher/horror movies will make their debut.
Tree company in Jacksonville Fl has a boom truck with incredible reach. Operated by one. Man with a remote control from the ground... has a big grabber with a saw below. Cuts it in sections and lowers amazing
I don’t know. That was the craziest swinging I ever saw by an arborist. In the neighborhood where we live there are many very tall (70’) tall trees. Often storm damaged and taken down for safety and damage prevention. But the crane is above the limb to be cut with a slight tension. And they have very minimal movement once cut and then are lowered gently. Not this wild swinging which appears very dangerous to people working equipment and surrounding structures. That didn’t even look like a cable. It looked like a rope. They have cranes with cables and then use wide and long nylon straps to secure the limb. Straps like you use in a shop to move heavy equipment. Looked pretty sketchy to me TBH.
Do they make a drill set up capable of augering through a tree that size ?? I seem to remember seeing a tree, decades ago, that had a split and was fixed/patched by bolting the spilt together. They augered through and ran some bolts through with big washers on the ends to lock the split together. Would that have been a viable option here ???
What a shame but not something one can save. It's amazing just how tough trees are. I've seen completely hollow rotted at the trunk big tress like this one with a full canopy fail suddenly and wonder just how they stood as long as they did. Thanks for the video. 👍
I admire your skill in roping thoze branches so they fall in a controlled manner. I did a small job for a neighbor and had a couple of branches swing back and nearly clobber me! Quite dangerous cutting alone and untethered... 3:16 , 4:26 *QUESTION: Did somebody salvage that wood? Looks like it would be for furniture, etc.*
@@AugustHunicke have you been back to check up on that tree? its incredible it didn't simply split in half and drop that whole section on the building. i think your original assessment of total removal woudl be the best choice. i can understand wanting to keep such a beautiful specimen around, but i think turning it into furniture as a way to preserve its memory is better than to let it fall on potential guests... but, ye try and do what the customer wants, though you can advise them to the best or safest course of action... i love watching these arborist and tree guys working. have you heard of Blair Glen? he is an arborist in california, whose videos i enjoy watching as well. im up here in Vermont, and am expecting some arborist and tree removal crew to come around sometime to take care of some dangerous and or unwanted trees. so you can bet im going to be watching them with fascination... maybe even help out if thats warranted haha.
@@AugustHunicke lol aye, i commented too soon, im watching part 3 now. ye did a great job though. i imagine that spot could have another nice tree in a hundred years or so of similar size. heck of a lot of wood chips too though, good soil eh haha.
We live in the woods. Our trees are 7-12 feet in diameter and 75 to 100 feet tall. Several times we have had to cut trees. We had to clear the street of trees and our lot. My husband and my Dad did all that work. Dad passed and hubby is now in his 80s. No more cutting down trees for him. We call in expert tree guys now. So I am familiar with all this. Nice to see it from the cutters view.
It was sick how busy this tree was. I'm dealing later this winter & spring with some large oak trees & this video gives me confidence while still remaining humble.
Great video bro! Huge job. Just subscribed after seeing you one handed bowline video. I've been using that method to tie my running bowline for years now, its awesome. I just started playing with spider rigging recently. Works awesome for branches overhanging houses or what not. If spider rigging is something you do it'll be cool to see a video on it. Cheers.
Nice .calculated and precise. Seems like such a waste of beautiful wood though. One thing though ,and I might have missed it, but where was this at, and what was the total cost?
I have a silver maple at home pretty much the same size as this tree shown in video. Being aware that those branches are the size of other trees, how much does it cost to take off just one main branch?
It's absolutly normal on any oak of certain size. The middle is simply not needed. IT's first dead woold and like a 30year old woolden fence, after 30 years it's rotten.
Great to see arborist do a- DANGEROUS EMERGENCY -removal the right way, clove w/a half hitch a bita holding hinge and let it run to the ground right on the pile by the chipper.Glad you could bring bucket boom on and not have to climb it.I call hacks that can't climb yet and only use a bucket a "bucket baby".It should have been cabled and trimed away from the home and overall conopy lightend decades ago.
i would have had that thing cut down long time ago, and a few others....living here in Florida with the storms we get....i never understand people who leave big trees next to, and big branches overhanging their homes....
Hello, great video, very professional, just wondering, how do you get all those ropes through the trees to tie on to the branch your cutting?. Is that the time consuming part of the job. Mark
Much like the way it grew, it takes a tremendous amount of patience to take that beast down. Gotta have a level head to plan the disassembly. Nice work!!
This is what I do for a living. Only thing different is we don't use a bucket truck. We climb, or in some cases, use a crane, but same peice by peice technique.
The gopro can be a great informative tool.... I had issues with my groundie running my ropes, ever since we switched to a bollard. I put a gopro on his head & after watching footage I realized he was actually hooking it up wrong. Its difficult to know what's happening on the ground when you are in the tree, but the ability to veiw footage after work has helped me MANY times. Great job & good edit! STAY SAFE #AdamIsABigDude😂
You teach them to do it watch them do it multiple times in a simulated situation until you’re confident they can do it way to many people half adding teaching it’s sad
Damien and Adam, well done getting there and saving that house from certain destruction..... 😎👊 .....OK, maybe not certain destruction but, it wasn't gonna end well if that tree wasn't taken down right away. Very much looking forward to the next video. That tree is huge. It's a shame it had to come down but, gotta be safe. Thanks for sharing another great video August. Your crew is on point. Keep yourselves safe! Randy
I am wondering why one couldn't put several steel cables or straps around the tree to help hold it together? How about drilling through the tree and putting several pieces of large threaded rod through the tree with metal plates to distribute the load? I know that is thinking outside the box, but they do similar things when the professional build fill-size houses in trees.
Whoever edited the video deserves props as well as the crew. I love how you hear the last rev and then tree chunks drop away. That's what made the whole thing for me. Little talking and tons of tree falling. Great job 👏
I’m surprised the big beautiful tree didn’t totally split a long time ago.
They saved their home by the severe trim.
I don’t think many people really realize how heavy one tree limb is😶
Great job!👍🏻🌻
Are you coming to Bucee's today.
A 10 ft long 8” diameter black oak log weighs 216lb
It’s also a matter of leverage. With that weight extending out it become magnified.
@@Lisac4441 Holy Holy is the Lamb
@@Lisac4441 Lisa, I don't think Jesus would have been too keen on an automated proselytizing computer program that spams youtube videos. As much as it may pain you to report a Bible verse, you should because spam is bad and the robots are bad too.
Awesome. In my younger years I did this kind of work and fully appreciate the complexity. I climbed trees for several years and did not get hurt or crash anything ... I had a great teacher & I was very lucky. You guys are pros of the pros.
I always wanted to be a tree surgeon, but faint at the sight of sap.
Great job guys.
Gary Graham wot
@@rcblitzfpv8346 It was a joke. 👍👍
Gary Graham I know
@@rcblitzfpv8346 👍😷
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I’ve been seeing this thumbnail for a few days, and I finally gave in and watched. Apparently I’m a tree cutting fan, only RUclips knew it though.
hahaha thanks. The oracle knows
Haha Same 😂😂❤
@@AugustHunicke Was literally talking to my dad about cutting down the giant tree in our yard just yesterday and youtube shows me this! 😨
Greatly enjoyed it though!
😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣
@broncosolid, try it irl, it is really addicting, the smell of fresh sawdust mixed with 2stroke fuel, and the satisfaction of hearing those limbs hit, it's pretty sweet.
And I'm a tree lover thru and thru, but sawing thru these huge organisms is hella fun!
You tree guys are a special breed of people man fearless.
You guys work hard, and save people's homes and property.
Hey now, I spent *_decades_* crawling around suspect trussing in venues around the world... lighting directors deserve love too :*(
@@grendelum Anyone who can take the high places deserves top shelf everything.
You guys are bad ass!
Check out the guys that work on 500000 volt high wires, LIVE!!
The thing should have been maintained. Years before it got the the point its breaking under its own weight
This is so nice to watch. I trained in Arboriculture many years ago, attracted by the artistic side of the work. I think I remember being told there were two sides, those who enjoyed takedowns, as of pines and using cleats and those who liked the repair and forming work. Each had value.A
So cool to watch it in a controlled fall!! When guys know what they're doing its interesting to watch.
Adam you were no doubt the star of this show! Rope-man skills on fire, Be Well MB Crew and Family
And this is why professional arborists earn every penny you pay them.
i will like to see him working whit out the basket....then we will talk about professionalism.....
@@gruponeutro working with the best equipment and tools in order to finish the job faster and more efficiently is part of the definition of being a professional
@@gruponeutro That's likely how he started lol, bucket trucks aren't free.
@@gruponeutro I'm pretty darn sure he knows how to work without the bucket the bucket makes a whole lot safer
@@kevino1489 but you guys do just tree removal how about trim them thats different then just removed it... i will love to see your guys work not just remove the whole thing
My dad was an old Tree Man from NC.
I've seen quite a few emergency situations just like this.
We were in SoCal. The winds and the eucalyptus were nasty as hell.
But my uncle would throw on his climbers and up he went. Swaying back and forth with gusts to probably 20-30.
You do great work August.
It was cool as hell watching you do your mastery.
Stay safe and keep the feet pointed down.
Thanks for a great video
Right back at ya Buddy!
"Big black oak threatens home"
Tree: *yells threats at the house
Lmao 🤣
A great day when you all go home safe and smiling. Regards from Scotland.
That wasn't too sketchy and the awareness of what's going to happen is what matters most. Been doing a lot of residential dead ash trees with decent spread. Nice work as always!
A nice and professional job done August, I can see that you have a passion for trees.
What is so sad for all old trees is that they cannot move anywhere and are at the mercy of anybody with a chainsaw and in this case the tree was there first so it was good that the home owners didn't take it out but lightened it's load so it could live longer.
I highly recommend a book that changed my views on farming and managing nature called 'Wilding'. it's written by an English lady with a name I'd like called Isabella Tree, I have even met her and seen one of her talks and at the moment she's travelling around the US, so go and see a talk if you can.
She and her husband Charlie have a dairy farm of about 3,500 hectares in Sussex, England and by pure luck decided to quit farming in about 2000 just before the foot & mouth disease that nearly wiped out Britain's dairy farm industry. They sold all their farming equipment and dairy herd and left their land to look after itself with ponies, beaver, pigs, deer and long-horned cattle to do most of the land management. 20 years on their efforts have been rewarded and the results can be seen at the Knepp Farm Estate where they do safari's and wedding events.
Their book has an entire chapter about trees which has some amazing facts about trees which you may or may not know. They are also lucky to have some very ancient Oak trees and the facts and anecdotes that she write about those trees are really cool especially the symbiotic relationship that they have with a member of the Corvid family, the Jay.
Oak trees will actually put down branches to the ground so that they can help support their own weight. Unfortunately because we humans have an idealised view of how trees should look the trees that grow in the urban environment usually have these limbs chopped off.
In the UK there are about 8 to 900 or so of these really ancient (500 years plus) beauties and in the whole of Europe there are about 1,200 of them.
Anyway, keep up the good work and video's and just in case you want to know more about sustainable buildings using cob, lime mortars/plasters or even straw-bale structure then please contact me here on RUclips and I'll do what I can to answer you, I don't advertise as all my work is by word of mouth.
Also I get no money from talking about Isabella's book or the Knepp estate, I do it because the whole world should do this, rewilding would probably help to save our planet, it would certainly help to stop all the flooding that happens.
Such a beautiful big tree with full ecosystems growing on each branch.
Shame to tear it up but the danger was obvious.
Suggestion: next time show how you tied the ropes before the cuts, the knots are always tight and secure, seems an important part of a good cut you are bypassing
It’s the same exact knot every time which is why they don’t show it. For reference, it is a running bowline !
like the safety precautions..good boom truck, good coworker who is alert and able, safety ropes..and not being to aggressive..pros!..and 329 nay sayers who can do it better..
Some people just insist on being the smartest guy in the room- even if they actually have no clue.
7:40 tho - did he just miss his co worker??!!!! 😲
Did they go back and cut the branches back to the tree for esthetic looks? Tar the cut points to prevent bugs getting into it?
that looks like some good wood coming off that tree.
a suggestion, if i may?......send some of it to a place like the "guitar clinic" in hamilton, ontario.
jim walker tree saw massacre if I may
Lolwut?
jim walker the client said All the wood stays on-site
jim walker , and what, pray tell will we use Oak for in a Guitar?
Why ? Do they need some firewood up there? 'cause they don't use oak in guitars. 👍
There is a tree in the neighborhood that has a big split in it like this one. It has a big chunk of chain wrapped around it holding it together. Looks like it has been that way quite awhile. There are spots where the tree has grown completely over the chain.
Heh, damn silly place to grow a house if you ask me. Those things can get pretty big!
good one LOL
@Katie Giles 😂
Should I be pruning the house in winter or Spring?
@@gorillaau Humans are tricky to judge in that regard. Since we breed in any season, we need to hold back on pruning those extra gazebos and shutters etc, until after mating is completed!
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Wondered if any of the wood could have been used for furniture or maybe construction?
As a fellow tree guy awesome job, whoever you have running the ropes on the ground is damn good! That’s as important as the guy in the tree
Excellent series of videos guys.. loved watching all the way from Scotland.. 👍
The moss is beautiful on this tree.
Adam is the MVP of the day, its easy to ride around in a carnival ride, talk smart and run the chainsaw, the ground man does the bulk of the work and make or breaks the day. Hats off to you sir....P.S. if things don't work out for you with August, I will pay you $1,000,000 to come work with me, just saying................
Let's get this straight.
That oak was there long before that house.
That's usually how it is trees live to be hundreds of years old most house are only a few decades at the most
So?
Tom Smith the Red Indians were there before the British.
300 years before that house !
@@newyorkval1478 I doubt that long
You guys make a difficult and dangerous job look so easy. Well done. Top skills!
Im super afraid of falling from heights and this video made me sweat a little. You guys are amazing.
Great explanation from Damien around 2:00+ (yes, make sense).
Question(s), please ....
Is cabling not an option *after* a tree has *already* split?
e.g. for a tree with a a split like that one had, nothing can be done to make it safe/enjoyable for any reasonable amount of time(?)
thanks!
The time for saving that tree would have been by end weight reduction pruning prior to the failure. After a failure of that magnitude on a tree of that magnitude and a location of that magnitude I will never recommend rescue of the tree. No bracing. No cabling. No pruning. Instead, a new era.
@@AugustHunicke Thanks!
Oak is very heavy, will no doubt would flatten the house.
We had a large Oak with 3 Trunks. It was over 15' in circumference, 4' off the ground. The Canopy spanned 97'. Some people suggested cabling it for added strength. The center of the trunks had a deep bowl that water would get into and sit. There was a crack that started at bowl and went down between trunks. We knew it would go some day. We had a rope swing on it for years. Luckly it sat 120 yards behind house. One breezy day 3 years after seeing the crack it split into 3rds. No words could describe the sadness I felt. I knew we were not the only ones that enjoyed it. The kids had found an old coin from the mid 1700's under the tree, prior to it coming down.
Fake news. Your kids didn’t find shit
This is the first video of tree lopping where the guy is not an improvised cowboy.
Very professional. 😁👍
You guys are so amazing. I watched all three videos. Great job done. Men are so smart.
Looking forward to the next episode. You have a good crew there keep up the good work guys.
It is always great to watch true craftsman at work. I would have loved to see a sample of how your rigged the rope for the drops and the crane work.
Wow, nice teamwork with the cutting and dropping / placement of the branch sections.
Also, I'm subbed to a few wood turning channels & I'd be willing to bet those guys would love to get their creative hands and carving tools on the pieces that were cut at about 8:55 & 10:51. 😁. Bye for now, I'm gonna go watch part 2.
So glad I found your channel. Absolutely amazing work.
Nice oak 😎👍
Nice first part. Looking forward to part 2.
As a woodworker my heart sunk thinking of some of those larger straight pieces going through the chipper..
Just wondering how much the bill is for a job like this
In the UK a job that like that would be 2k, more then likely over 3k. My best guess would be 4k-4.5k.
Baring in mind wagers are lower in the UK then the US, so even ignoring exchange rates that's probably equivalent to about 6 or 7k US.
Never had a problem with the oak behind my boyhood home. An arborist estimated it’s 500 years old, and estimated it pulls up 800 gallons of water every day. My father was a land surveyor so when he said it was 192 feet drip edge to drip edge I believe it. And after he retired, during an exceptionally productive year he actually weighed the acorns he raked up. 11,750 pounds of acorns! And it never had any significant branch break off in 58 years.
Ya probably not a black oak.
@@AugustHunicke They are called Valley Oaks in California’s Sacramento valley. I don’t know any other name for them. And oddly, the summers are so hot they aren’t affected by Sudden Oak Death.
That is a good looking tree. I understand why they would want to save it. To be honest they shouldn't have let it get that bad.
When the tree's have multiple shoots and when they mature they look good.....but are the worst of any tree , did you not see the crack ? That right should have given you a heads up! Your post went contrary to what your eye balls seen!
@@darrenkastl8160 yes i seen the crack I was talking about the tree was a good looking tree itself and sad to see the weight of the tree split it. If you would have read my full comment I also said they shouldnt have let it get that bad as in trimming it in order to keep this from happening. Atleast know what your talking about before jumping on a comment.
Their "trimming" was doubtless the problem. Canopy elevations and lion tailing branches every time that they begin to re-establish interior growth is why trees like that fall apart.
Proper pruning is difficult, which is why not many of us do it. Some calculated structural pruning for a couple of decades prior would have made failures like that one very rare indeed.
why judge? do you know if they planted the tree or if they recently moved into the home?
quit being a little boy and learn facts
Cant we just get along together ;-)
Whoa, haven't seen the topmost of and old, huge Oak before, what a view. There's a lot of science gone into this cutting...great job👍⭐😎
Always interesting to see pros working.
Great video. Nice tree but sad it had to go. I wonder what all that tree has seen in its life time? Thanks August and crew.
Damien has become quite a narrator 💪 Way to go bud 🤠. Who needs August ”all the time” 🤣
This might sound silly. I was a bucket man for years. But, why paint the boom black? certain paint colors (black) contain metal pigment. Like iron oxide which could compromise the dielectric (insulation) value if by chance you came near or contacted a tree that was touching electrical lines. Plus it makes it harder to see in a tree.
Just an observation. We used power wash our booms,inside and out, because of saw dust and oils could make it conductive.
I don’t do powerline work. What’s funny is I told the painter to paint the truck black and white. I never meant the boom 😁. I assumed his color scheme would naturally include a white boom.
yeah that crack was a little bit scary .. good job getting out there quick and keeping them safe.. they're gonna burn it hmmm would be nice to see some furniture come out of that... its so old
I am going to make some cool slab wood pieces out of it. As well as a couple big block tables. I am letting it weather for a bit. It’s drying pretty quickly with this oregon heat.
@@keystonedesigns that would be really nice this guy is pretty cool and does stuff like that ruclips.net/video/K9gCdLd2R7s/видео.html good luck to you :o)
I think that the home owners should have been having that beautiful tree monitored and trimmed more often and starting from years back. Perhaps the tree would not have cracked?
A trimmer is only as good as his groundman
And you guys have a great crew
Yep I'm a grown man
Is it possible to save a tree like this by using long anchors that screw in from side cracked all the way to solid wood on other trunk? They could be counter sunk and the holes filled with a dark paste to blend in. I'm just thinking out of the box.
Why the hell was this recommended to me. I swear, you watch 25 tree removal videos and...
I’d never watched a tree removal video before this one and it was recommended to me as well...
Very entertaining in a multitude of ways. That was a lot of wood expertly processed from start to finish, well done. I hope the client appreciates just how difficult that was and just how it could have been disastrous in the wrong hands. What was the cost of this job? Must have been a monster bill for such a monster tree and where it was, requiring a lot of expensive equipment? Only very very slightly negative thing I thought was that some of the heavier wood should not have been put through the chipper but used either for burning or craft work but that's just me being a typical thrifty Scot. Well done for all the hard work and for letting us virtual loggers be a part of your exciting world. Great stuff!!!
“Damien surrrrre does knoooooow how tooo run a bucket” 😂 great work guys
That popped into my head when he was swinging that piece under the bucket. These guys crack me up
Bucket baby must be nice iiiiiii wwwwwiiiisssshhh
You guys are amazing! You know your job very well. It is fun to watch you
Not gonna lie, tree work scares me, always. Pleasure to watch you guys, stay safe.
Humm Black Oak, the wood for my 7th grade Wood Shop project. Way back in SO Cal in 61. Almost 60 yrs ago.....
It won't be long before tree-crawling little robots make their way into the tree cutting business. Not long after, the first of a long list of "out-of-control" robot tree cutter slasher/horror movies will make their debut.
@L E whatabout a chain that morfs to climb rhe limb and slices with a lazer
Tree company in Jacksonville Fl has a boom truck with incredible reach. Operated by one. Man with a remote control from the ground... has a big grabber with a saw below. Cuts it in sections and lowers amazing
And it will be called...Nightmare on Elm Street......
Little tree cutting and spidey man shooting to catch the dropped part robbits
Adam it's beautiful 😍🤗😘🇵🇹kiss from Portugal. God job
You know that you are dealing with professionals when they wear Pfanner gear instead of denim jeans and 50 year old aluminium hard hats
You mean, they are so expensive they can afford professional equipment. (in Austria Pfanner is a huge juice brand).
I don’t know. That was the craziest swinging I ever saw by an arborist.
In the neighborhood where we live there are many very tall (70’) tall trees. Often storm damaged and taken down for safety and damage prevention. But the crane is above the limb to be cut with a slight tension. And they have very minimal movement once cut and then are lowered gently. Not this wild swinging which appears very dangerous to people working equipment and surrounding structures. That didn’t even look like a cable. It looked like a rope. They have cranes with cables and then use wide and long nylon straps to secure the limb. Straps like you use in a shop to move heavy equipment.
Looked pretty sketchy to me TBH.
Do they make a drill set up capable of augering through a tree that size ??
I seem to remember seeing a tree, decades ago, that had a split and was fixed/patched by bolting the spilt together. They augered through and ran some bolts through with big washers on the ends to lock the split together.
Would that have been a viable option here ???
What a shame but not something one can save. It's amazing just how tough trees are. I've seen completely hollow rotted at the trunk big tress like this one with a full canopy fail suddenly and wonder just how they stood as long as they did.
Thanks for the video. 👍
Yep it's a lot of tree .how old do you think it is. The leadburn logger Scotland.
i would say at minimum 150
166 years old
@@AugustHunicke1853!
god i got dizzy, made half way through.
we usually cut fire wood size then toss em. 2 people in bucket no ropes
OMGosh!! I am extremely motion sensitive...totally thrown off guard when the view from the top came...second time had to quit....
I admire your skill in roping thoze branches so they fall in a controlled manner. I did a small job for a neighbor and had a couple of branches swing back and nearly clobber me! Quite dangerous cutting alone and untethered... 3:16 , 4:26 *QUESTION: Did somebody salvage that wood? Looks like it would be for furniture, etc.*
When Adam was standing next to the tree, he should have sung "well I'm a lumberjack and..."
May I ask how much you charged for that tree removal ? You did an incredible job.
It's amazing that tree is even standing, with all the leverage of those humongous lateral limbs
Exactly
@@AugustHunicke have you been back to check up on that tree? its incredible it didn't simply split in half and drop that whole section on the building. i think your original assessment of total removal woudl be the best choice. i can understand wanting to keep such a beautiful specimen around, but i think turning it into furniture as a way to preserve its memory is better than to let it fall on potential guests... but, ye try and do what the customer wants, though you can advise them to the best or safest course of action... i love watching these arborist and tree guys working. have you heard of Blair Glen? he is an arborist in california, whose videos i enjoy watching as well. im up here in Vermont, and am expecting some arborist and tree removal crew to come around sometime to take care of some dangerous and or unwanted trees. so you can bet im going to be watching them with fascination... maybe even help out if thats warranted haha.
Eddie Schirmer we cut the tree down. See part one and 2 in the description.
@@AugustHunicke lol aye, i commented too soon, im watching part 3 now. ye did a great job though. i imagine that spot could have another nice tree in a hundred years or so of similar size. heck of a lot of wood chips too though, good soil eh haha.
I love it when you got a nice big landing zone
This tree is such an amazing structure, complex, strong.
We live in the woods. Our trees are 7-12 feet in diameter and 75 to 100 feet tall. Several times we have had to cut trees. We had to clear the street of trees and our lot. My husband and my Dad did all that work. Dad passed and hubby is now in his 80s. No more cutting down trees for him. We call in expert tree guys now. So I am familiar with all this. Nice to see it from the cutters view.
love to see you guys work :D i was up in a 98 feet beech today.
@@briankennedy1313 yes I am pretty sure 30 meters
I can smell the oak wood chips from here in Britain, great job guys , and hopefully that wonderful tree 🌲 has many more years on the planet.
Boom truck is super nice. When I was 30 years younger, we climbed up there. The good ol days...🥴
Most of them do still climb the trees. A boom lift is slow as hell and you can't get them into most places because they're way too big.
BLACK OAK! THAT IS TRULY BEAUTIFUL WOOD!
thats very sad, to see the end of a big mature oak. it's hundreds of years old. but everything has to end eventually.
Would it have been a viable ideea to strap or chain the trunk, as a first emergency measure, so it woudnt split anymore untill you would cut it?
I would have ratchet strapped it... But I also would have pruned it before endangering my most valuable asset
I don't know why I do this to myself, I feel like passing out. It's so damn high up there..... 🤢😱
It was sick how busy this tree was. I'm dealing later this winter & spring with some large oak trees & this video gives me confidence while still remaining humble.
Great video bro! Huge job. Just subscribed after seeing you one handed bowline video. I've been using that method to tie my running bowline for years now, its awesome.
I just started playing with spider rigging recently. Works awesome for branches overhanging houses or what not.
If spider rigging is something you do it'll be cool to see a video on it.
Cheers.
Nice .calculated and precise. Seems like such a waste of beautiful wood though. One thing though ,and I might have missed it, but where was this at, and what was the total cost?
Awesome job guys keep up the good work!!!! 🤟🏻🤟🏻 as Buckin’ would say be kind!!
I have a silver maple at home pretty much the same size as this tree shown in video. Being aware that those branches are the size of other trees, how much does it cost to take off just one main branch?
I've cut down dozens of Black Oaks over the years and it seams like a lot of them were rotten in the middle.
It's absolutly normal on any oak of certain size. The middle is simply not needed. IT's first dead woold and like a 30year old woolden fence, after 30 years it's rotten.
Great to see arborist do a- DANGEROUS EMERGENCY -removal the right way, clove w/a half hitch a bita holding hinge and let it run to the ground right on the pile by the chipper.Glad you could bring bucket boom on and not have to climb it.I call hacks that can't climb yet and only use a bucket a "bucket baby".It should have been cabled and trimed away from the home and overall conopy lightend decades ago.
i would have had that thing cut down long time ago, and a few others....living here in Florida with the storms we get....i never understand people who leave big trees next to, and big branches overhanging their homes....
What can i say it adds some risk into our lives😅
Hello, great video, very professional, just wondering, how do you get all those ropes through the trees to tie on to the branch your cutting?. Is that the time consuming part of the job. Mark
Definitely an emergency situation. Can’t wait for part 2
Much like the way it grew, it takes a tremendous amount of patience to take that beast down. Gotta have a level head to plan the disassembly. Nice work!!
Do you mind me asking what this job cost the customer? that's a crap ton of work
I showed a buddy this video here in NY that does this kind of work... he told me that between $5 and 7k... I say closer to 10k
This is what I do for a living. Only thing different is we don't use a bucket truck. We climb, or in some cases, use a crane, but same peice by peice technique.
No fails here. Good job👌👌👌
I got to do the same stuff
Bought an old house with old oaks around the house.
And 150 years of trimming mistakes.
Good thing the house was cheap
The gopro can be a great informative tool....
I had issues with my groundie running my ropes, ever since we switched to a bollard. I put a gopro on his head & after watching footage I realized he was actually hooking it up wrong. Its difficult to know what's happening on the ground when you are in the tree, but the ability to veiw footage after work has helped me MANY times. Great job & good edit!
STAY SAFE #AdamIsABigDude😂
great idea bud
A bollard holy shit that's 2600 bucks I wish never let you praying knees get lazy
You live in Missouri with human
You teach them to do it watch them do it multiple times in a simulated situation until you’re confident they can do it way to many people half adding teaching it’s sad
What a great video ! Can't wait for the conclusion. Thumbs up.
DONT try this at home!
Its a specialists job requiring lots of experience with tree cutting.
Yeah, try it at your neighbours property, then sue for bazillions when it goes wrong and injures you :P
Love it! Looking forward to Part 2... - Patrick
Damien and Adam, well done getting there and saving that house from certain destruction..... 😎👊
.....OK, maybe not certain destruction but, it wasn't gonna end well if that tree wasn't taken down right away.
Very much looking forward to the next video. That tree is huge. It's a shame it had to come down but, gotta be safe.
Thanks for sharing another great video August. Your crew is on point.
Keep yourselves safe!
Randy
I am wondering why one couldn't put several steel cables or straps around the tree to help hold it together? How about drilling through the tree and putting several pieces of large threaded rod through the tree with metal plates to distribute the load? I know that is thinking outside the box, but they do similar things when the professional build fill-size houses in trees.