Simon
And others.
Since I helped Simon load this video up I got to view it a fair bit.
Hats off to the guy showing what happened, many wouldn't have.
Hats off for making it in the first place too, like many others he's got himself helcammed, means he's serious about his job and got a thick hide. A thick hide is required as you will get some-one kicking it every now and then, depending where you host it (rabid forums) you can get ganged with thugs for just being there.
Now, in the true Aussie spirit of Hey Hey it's Saturday Tree World's
Red will say....
Showing how long that tree took means you need to up your skills. Guys skidding around on lowering ropes is just nuts, at 2.52min the guys skidded directly beneath the load and the first guy appeared to not have a helmet.
The final head coming off barber chairing ... you were lucky to have not been hurt.
You were trying to fell the head at a different angle to the lean of it, extremely ambitious without a scarf, however you were lazy often not scarfing or snap cutting and experiencing tearing.
I wouldn't have bothered big shotting it and just gone up it perhaps removing some along the way.
At around 1min in where you snap cut off the first limb, make the top cut directly above or slightly closer to the trunk to ensure your saw doesnt get caught in the falling section.
The next cut at around 1.30min you should have scarfed too ... narrow scarfs can give direction and turn but break off rather than hold the butt up. Have you had any where they land on their head and the butt spears through something?
At 5.38min you block out trunk without a back snap cut, again bark tear down to lanyard not good, cut the back first. This continued right through to the 7min mark and once you had a "bar walker" piece. SNAP CUTS MATE!
Sorry for the heavy critique, but I see accidents coming unless you change your ways.
