The timing of ‘just wait a minute for it to fall’ and seeing it fall was perfect. I was expecting him to go back in to cut more, while being anxious it would kick back when falling. Definitely master at work.
Man you are so knowledgeable about falling trees at such a young age age, been following you for a while and it has helped with my understanding of trees. Guess you had the best teacher, RIP.
I can tell these are hard trees for you to work with and I'm referring to it being emotionally hard . Just remember that he knew you would be the best one to step up and take his spot . I work as a wild land fire fighter as a Sawyer and puller and your videos in the past with certain people up to your present videos of just yourself have been in valuable to me for my life of work and as well as outside of work as I enjoy free work so much to the point that it's a hobby. I appreciate what you do and the obvious Love you have for the work because your videos show that . You are very adamant about making sure you're S.A. is always 100% ,that you make it well known of all possible dangers and how to safely complete the job and overall your integrity for everything is on par . Can't thank you enough for the invaluable knowledge I have gained and the countless other people who feel the same. Keep up the good work bub and always remember he is looking down on you proud as ever
I had a co-dominant ash tree I cut last year. Didn't know how to cut it but i cut into one of them and pinched my bar and ended up cutting the other one with my other saw and had to do my 1st plunge cut into it and was completely rotten inside but got lucky that it fell where I had it aimed and then cut the other tree and was able to open it up enough to get my bar out and fell it. Your video a few years back on 7 ways to cut a tree helped me out that day. But thankfully I fell them in an open yard far away from a house
Been doing tree work for 39 years and I hate these trees so easy to go wrong easy even with everything right .everything your talking about is dead on right and love what you are doing for tree workers everywhere keep doing what you are doing we need this out thire you are keeping guys safe and save in lives or just a world of hurt we never had this when I was starting out or we would have done this same thing but u have so much more going on with big trees and crane work that we never need here in New Jersey were I work..but man I love to watch your videos. Be safe and keep the love of trees going..funny you love a job that just wants to beat u up ...but we love a job that hates us lol .....
I have been watching your videos for a while now and I have to say the sound of this one cracking and falling might be the best one yet. Very informative as well, I have heard of co-dominant trees before but never realized how dangerous they would be to fall. Nicely Done!
After having broken half my cheap wedges at a job yesterday, the next tree I fell (co-dominant or not) will be done with the 4 new wedges I just ordered from sappy supplies! Just started the video! Can't wait to see how it turns out. I warn you - I will be silently judging. 🙂 I see you're using the 395. I like it. Also, I'm a tiny bit jealous.
I like how your content style has matured lately. More informative and technical than some of your earlier stuff (with Eastside, I guess?) Keep up the good work.
I know it would be a little extra work, but I would have cabled the two trunks together as high as I could reach with a couple of extra heavy duty ratchet straps or better yet a logging chain just for extra insurance.
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge. You have taught me a lot. Me being a rural land owner in Australia and female. I greatly enjoy your videos and have been following you since almost from the beginning. Thank you again 😁
One of the best so far, the knowledge, the patience, the safety, respecting the holding wood, this one had it all. I appreciate this channel so much Jacob, keep it up. My 40 acres benefits from you, and I am regular customer at Sappy...not Snappy...although I love Randy content. RIP Jed.
Maybe it just wasn't visible in the camera shot but I didn't see the seam go all the way out to the outer bark. This may not have been two separate trees but two leads that came off of the same base near ground level.
In the UĶ, we have lots of goat willows near water courses. These are often multi stemmed co- doms and prone to just collapsing outwards in all directions.
Great job Jake, your methods of working with tree's far exceeds my hero Logger friend as a kid, I really like the way your easy on the power of your Saw and almost always take the extra time to wedge them over.....k
Nicely done, and great explanation. Ever since hearing about what happened to Jed, I watch for sawyers frequently looking up while cutting and wedging, and have made it habit when doing any saw work on or under trees.
I'm not an arborist, but fall and cut my own firewood (a bit of chainsaw milling too if the tree is worth it). In this situations I just prefer to do a longitudinal cut between the stems (obviously not exactly down the middle in all the trunk 😆), and just fell them individually after that, unless the union/crown was relatively simple like in this case. I've fell co-dominants like this with 3-5 trees in them for example (I know you in US do this too and its a regular thing with 2nd gen growths and the technique is identical), and in that case you got no other choice than to cut between them to separate at least in 2 pieces, sometimes even 1 by 1 if its some crazy clump. I don't know if you have hornbeam in Oregon, but here in Romania we got some crazy 10-15 tree trunks grown from old cuts. The ones grown from trees felled 60-100 years ago are wild, 5-8 feet thick or more (it grows very irregularly, sometimes twice as thick in one direction). Those are some fun ones to take down 🤣But I'm an outlier, most people here don't bother cutting the giants, too much hassle when so many smaller trees are more accessible and they don't require heavy lifting and a big chainsaw.
Nicely done Sir, that said i would have used a standard notch on that one. As a result you would have gotten closer to the ground and had more reliable holding wood for the hinge. You probably should have scribed you back cut before committing to it.
Thank you, great lesson. I do have two trees much the same but smaller in diameter. Crispy and losing its bark at the bottom. I'll drop together. Thanks Jason.
Man, i have done fell quite a few co dominants, doug firs, maples, spruces, oregon oak, ... in my opinion, id have sent the climber up the maple in this video,limb/ top it, rig down some of it.? At least un limb lock it and than cut the stems fall the teunk etc. .. what with all that limb lock action, but then again, im not there to look at it in person. But hey good work my guy. Good humbolt. Had me on the edge worried it was gonna split and go sideways... but only for a few seconds 😂
Great explanation Jacob! That’s definitely a huge maple! We’re from the same town man! I believe the term co-dominant or co-dom means it’s two tops fighting for dominance to be the main top. Excellent video!!! Hope to see ya around. That smell of sewage reminds me of doing cottonwood and yellow poplars 🤢🤮😮💨
Thank you young man for exposing the truth of your experience that many of your grandfather's new. Many blessings to your new adventures of good and safe adventures into being a good steward of our natural resources and environment. Knowledge is worth more than gold son. Be safe always. Even it conflicts with selfrightousness of what the customer think the job is worth to them. Walk away young man. It's not who you are.
Just discovered the channel and subscribed. Wondered if you could add a timelapse clear up of the trees you cut down as an outro to the vids. Great work btw and fascinating to watch.
I have cut quite a few nasty trees like that. where I had to rope the two together between 2/3 and 3/4 up and then about about eight feet up to make sure it fell as one I also secured a pull line to the top rope and use a rope come along for good tension. you do a good 👍 job just a little foot note watch your hinge wood make sure you don't over cut stay safe 🙏
Had hard maple 🍁 just like that .had ton of back weight ten ft from clients house . They wanted to keep it but .had bad school marm.and co dominant. When pulled it over was mud and 💦...heavey stuff
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If you're cutting a tree and it starts cracking and popping, back off and let it, 'cause it's moving. I've cut a lot of fallen trees (mostly poplar) with a pruning saw, and when I hear them pop I know I'm five or six strokes from having it cut through. Unlike a standing tree the logs tend to fall suddenly and I'm careful not to be under them.
Would you ever do a show on safety? Like how to understand and prevent kick backs? Or form using a saw? As a homeowner, occasionally I have a need and chainsaws still truthfully make me pretty nervous when I have to use one.
It seems like a lot of people take felling trees too lightly and don't take time to recognize any dangers that could be there. I've seen a few "Tree guys" do the stupidest stuff because they just don't know. I've seen it in the fire service, too. We had a call that I was a Lieutenant and had a couple of fire fighters with me on that call. Large tree down blocking someone's driveway and into wires between power poles. I refused to cut it for several reasons. Well, the one younger firefighter talked another lieutenant into going up and cutting that tree. Neither of which were experienced with doing that. Well, they got very lucky as they didn't get hurt, but they damaged 2 fences, smashed 2 saws, and almost got injured and damaged the truck from the debris and pieces of the tree when it exploded. Needless to say, they got reprimanded and suspended for doing that.
I had a tree that was struck by lightning in the crotch 50' up and split down to the roots. The tree would sway in the wind as if it were 2 separate trees. It lived for about 10 yrs until 1 half, eventually died. My neighbor was brave enough to harvest the wood.
