Some Say Brave, Some Say Stupid. . .I say. . .
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 พ.ค. 2020
- Responding to a tree that failed. Tree was improperly "cabled" and the result was the Cobra slings failed in the wind.
see part two (link below)
• Some Say Brave. . .PART 2 - แนวปฏิบัติและการใช้ชีวิต
I'm 58 and would still be climbing trees but I had a motorcycle wreck that paralyzed me so now I'm watching your videos thanks for keeping it alive for me
I've done my fair share of these type of trees over the years, and as I've gotten older, I've realized a few things...creative rigging, while time-consuming, can make things a LOT safer; your life should be worth more than getting the tree on the ground, and sometimes it's OK to just say NOPE!
😅😂🤣😭😳🤔. Brave!
I agree 100%
You stepped to the edge looked at the abyss and it said ....naw not this guy.
Serious respect for your craziness.
Stay safe guys.
“this is the kind of thing .... that’s makes you wanna pray”
truer words have never been spoken
Years back, a climber that we hired to put up antennas in trees for the company I worked for showed me the top he had climbed on in a removal. It was over half rotten and was no more than 2-1/2" in diameter- with spur marks on it. I almost had brown pants looking at it.
Little did we know at the time, but he was dying from painful internal cancers. Guess he had figured it would be quick if it went. Al, we still miss you. A real wonderful guy.
Here's to AL
Lost my dad to cancer a few years ago. He was great at "tree work". If I have to drop a sketchy I always say I need a little help with this one dad.
SIMPLE TRUTH god bless you and your father
S C - That a top only 2.5" in diameter would be "over half rotten"? Yeah, that's pretty far fetched.
How’ve you been Sam? Payin the bills, stayin healthy and wise?
Just yanking the pull starter while up above that break would make me twitchy. 😂
'lectric. Option?
Ted Bownas - Yeah, working on starting a saw with minimal shifting of body weight is a good thing 😉
Well done for taking it on zip line seemed a bit risky side loading on that thin top no guy lines to stabilise.😳 . Respect to you for going for it 👍👍
That's the most nervous laughter I've heard from August. Good job!
I noticed the nervous singing
11:47 when that top comes off and the force from the speedline pulls the whole stem sideways it sent shivers up my spine. You sir, are a crazy man.
Andrew - 🤔But the top was not dropped into a speed line...(?)
Yep, I think that was why he lowered the second one straight down, that must have been an uneasy feeling. The pucker facter was elivated.
Man, not sure I can handle anymore of these sketch trees. Between this video and @regcoates most recent video I need a rest. My heart was racing just watching. Skills all day. Good job August and team. 👍🏼
Crazy fuckers
You're not the only one man. I'm at the edge of my seat here with my butt cheeks clinched up lol 20 or 30 feet I can handle even doing it myself. If it gets higher than that it's not fun
I'm not sure how these videos of yours can be so relaxing and scary at the same time. Completely mesmerizing. I enjoy them all.
Thanks
Granted I'm isolated here in my own corner of the world in Illinois, but I seriously thought I was the only climber considered crazy enough to do these types of sketchy jobs ,,, but my trees don't get over 120ft. around here ,,, it's definitely awesome to have ran across these videos ! I don't get to hang out with other climbers . Thanks for letting me hang out with you guys today , Glory be to GOD , stay Blessed and stay safe!
Amen!
There isn't enough money in the world to get me up there. Got dizzy and almost fell out of my recliner!
Couple grand and a real need for money would be a great insentive😤 sure was when i started plus beats getting in debt at Any school. Just my opinion tho
Most appropriate comment I have ever seen!
@@Ramiro.salcido A couple of grand? I hope this job cost more than that! I agree with Mr. Smith's comment.
@@Ramiro.salcido - "Couple Grand" for......??
@@alanjohnson6091 - Depends on how many other trees were taken down..... That one tree by itself would not be $2,000 in Jersey - and the climber (albeit, in this case, the owner) would not get that "Couple Grand"....in any event, the costs of running a business can easily incur a couple grand per day. Between insurances/licensure and maintenance/repairs/fuel, that could easily be $600/day. Then there's payroll - easily another $1,400/ day.... The owner, and certainly not "the climber", if he's _not_ the owner, do not gain much from a "couple grand".
So, this tree better not have been the whole day's gig for that day, and I'm reasonably certain that it wasn't. Even if prices are inflated in that area, it still would not pay the minimum overhead.
When you hear August singing in the tops you know it's rock'n and Rollin up there.....great job!
i have a bit of a reputation for hangin' it out there on some sketchy trees. watching you on this one gave me some butterflies. totally relate to the incremental relief you feel as you lighten the tree bit by bit. stay safe August!
I saw a guy get killed doing a tree very similar to the one you did here...when the strain of the piece he'd roped off was too much, and down he came with the top... I have had tops bust out on me doing line clearance, in storm conditions, with rain, and VERY high winds, and rode them all the way down, though I wasn't nearly as high as you are in this video...as I was only 40' up, or so, with nothing underneath me, other than grass and dirt. Great job, brother! Be safe, bro! That's ALWAYS job #1!!!
Yeah, whatever I was complaining about before I watched this I've completely forgot about :)
I could hear it your voice August. You were paying VERY close attention to every little movement that tree was making. I was feeling it with ya'. I smiled at 12:12 after you took the first top and looked at the second bigger top, my smile got bigger when you said you were taking the other top straight down. Well done August. Not sure it could've been done much different/better as far as climbing it. A lot of people may say that was foolish. Doing anything at a very high level of skill looks impossible/foolish to most people who will never put in the work/effort to reach a high level of skill at anything. Huge respect to you and your crew for making another extremely hazardous job look "easy".
Keep yourselves safe my friends! 😎👊
Randy
Holy smokes! There are old climbers and there are bold climbers. Not too many old, bold climbers. You might be the only one.
Wow... That was just brutal. I was a rope and saddle climber for 11 years. Started out trimming power lines then move into privet work. We trimmed and dead-wooded the HUGE oak trees at Walter Reed VA hospital in Wash DC in the early 70's ... They were so big I could see Sarah Palin's house from the top.
You my man are one crazy dude. That was a tree where you use a helicopter to lift out the top. Your life was literally hanging by a thread there Spider Man. I won't be able to sleep tonight after watching that. The Grim Reaper went home disappointed that day. Other than that very poor decision you are a very good climber of the highest level. I can guarantee you nightmares when you get old.
Watched quite a lot of this kind of videos. First one were I was really concerned the tree would break. This man has balls of titanium.
August: "you can see, it's a bit thin, where the co-dom broke"
Me: sweating through my hands and feet sitting in my kitchen thinking... "yes, thin "
It's a scary thing when you can do everything the right and safe way and still be killed. scary stuff bro
Theres a safer way but it costs more. Dont confuse yourself. This was bravery
Oh man, I've seen everything you've put on film. That said, this one picked me up and put me down on the edge of my seat. God likes you, August! - and your crew - and your families - and your grand parents - and their grand parents. You are a true artist who's been blessed.
Toward the middle to end of the video, that tree could have snapped so easily and what would you have done. Know what?
We have you & crew, you have a crane, next time hire a HELICOPTOR !!! Please stay safe and thank you for this one (among all you do for us.) Sonny (CT)
I give you a lot of credit being up there that high up cutting down trees. One of the most dangerous jobs. Stay safe!
I just love your videos, they are really great! For sure, you have balls of steel!!! :-) I am a rookie at 60 (start climbing at 57), and each spring the first climb is getting harder... I started because of necessity (could find anybody in northern Canada where my cottage is), but now I am hooked and like it. But your skills are more than impressive, and I don't know anybody that can steer a falling tree like you do. Keep-up your great videos. :-)
Glad you like them!
Savage. Haha
You had me not breathing for a minute.
Yeah, you got that right!!!
More like a few minutes and when I was younger I did this kind of work. Still do but no longer do climbing but do get calls on occasion to bring dangerous trees down though.
I was good till he cut that top loose, lots of bouncing and swaying around above the damage on that one.
Its videos like this that remind me why I'm AFRAID OF HEIGHTS.
What ever they are getting paid its NOT ENOUGH
Stay safe and live to cut another day!
I’ve nothing but respect for those of you who climb like this!
"Every man's got to know his limitations!" Clint Eastwood. I guess yours supersede most.
Well said.
“Life is hard. Life is harder when you’re stupid.” - John Wayne
I just watched magnum force lol
"You’re a better man than I am, Gunga Din!"
Rudyard Kipling
Ed (If uneducated people read your comment, more statues will fall.)
But first Gunga Din, a bit of physics. 3.3s freefall is about 175 of OUR British Imperial feet!
Or 53m in the new fangled European unit I used to calculate the height, before converting to something else, so don't worry about that and make me a nice cup of tea.
Adrenaline is brown and runs down your leg ..at least that my experience.
Wow. There is a time in a man's life when they have to sit back and put certain things in perspective. Then there is August Hunicke!!!
A man, a simple man, but a man with more integrity then most!!
Keep it up, stay young at
heart forever!!!!
Balls of steel. You have to be a little nutty to do this type of work. That said this man is a master of this craft. The skills and knowledge it takes to do a sketchy tree like this is something that's only gained through experience and hard work.
I always estimated how many limbs it would take to equal my weight. When I get that much off, it's always a relief.
I used to climb TV and radio towers a few years back. Also in Oregon. And every once in a while, I'd have to go work on a sketchy one. I always used to tell myself, it's stayed up in some big winds. Me on it ain't nothing. Still REAL happy when I was on the ground and getting out of my harness!
Brett Youngster - Although, there is that counterintuitive aspect of certain trees, that the more you take off, the shakier they get, what with the weight serving as ballast 'n'all...
Some people think it's all about weight and wind resistance, but that's only part of the picture.
@@samuelluria4744 yep, the branches help to absorb the loading with the way they sway, it always feels sketcher until you've done the top. Then it REALLY wabbles but you know you're safe!
This tree is horrible to dismantle, even more so with rigging involved.
It’s for occasions like this that I pay a tree guy and I stay on the ground to make him coffee
This is the best it ever gets!!! Makes skydiving a piece of cake! I’ve done both. The worst is cutting the top off and you hanging onto the stobb
There is no feeling to describe the butterflies a tree like that gives you.
Glad to see it went well, best of luck to y’all in the future.
The camera on the ground really made me understand what a noodle that tree was. Great work!
call in the heli loggers, that trees REEEAAL SKETCHY.
turtlezed - Except that tree is not loggable. Is loggable a word?🚁
+turtlezed I don't know why he didn't just cut it on the ground and let it fall. It looks like the tree wants to go toward the river. Hook on a cable and pull it if needed. I'd never climb up it.
Islamisthecultofsin - lots and lots of targets, between that tree and the river
@@samuelluria4744 At 15:11, he looks down and there doesn't seem to be much more than a few fences.
If the river wasn't an option, I'd not have taken the job.
Erwt 007 - That's enough targets for me. Granted, fences can be moved, if there is enough money in the job, and enough time. But, if you are dropping a tree that size into the river, you have two diminishing factors:
1) The tree can't be _left_ in the river, so it will require extra effort to retrieve it from there. You might _want_ to leave it, but local law enforcement will not see it your way. That's not a small tree.
2) Dropping a tree in a "ghetto" way invariably decreases your ability to _charge_ a premium price, which will make either moving or repairing the fences financially not feasible.
Omg that’s some crazy movement. You guys went about it the smartest way possible. The mental game is the hardest part.. you almost have to be prepared for the worst to even consider going forward with the job. All that experience really gets dialed in doing trees like this. Great job guys!
August, you have balls that clang amigo. Living on a prayer 🙏 with this job.
Dead trees makes me feel like that August. That feeling wouldn't get better till I was under we're it broke at. But after all the weight was gone, I would feel better when I started chunking down wood.
Was it dead? Or dying because of the huge split? It looked like it still had some green up top.
@@jmpsthrufyre The tree was compromised from the break. And it opened up a interstate for insects and decay.
If that puckers you up, I probably wouldn't climb it.
The difference between brave and stupid.... if it works, it’s brave. If it doesn’t, it’s stupid. Often, a very fine line.
I've watched a ton of your videos...and this is the first one that made me feel real uneasy.
Bad tree Nr. X..I can feel that feeling.. Pure adrenaline.. TreeWiggling like a snake.. Greetings from Germany
That had me looking away, each time the ground cam was on. You are very brave August.
Watching August up in that tree while it sways is making my stomach twist. Different breed of man that’ll tackle something like that.
Back when I was younger I never had much trouble climbing did alot of it. But I must say this guy has no fear and balls of steel. You all are truly professionals and some of the best I seen. I have done alot of dangerous tree removal but I can say I never run into a job thank goodness that was more dangerous than this one. I just don't think I could have done it. Maybe that's age talking I don't know but even though I was young once I still wasn't stupid. Guess that's why I am still living to talk about it.
I hope you guys have a bunch of little old ladies praying for y'all in a back room somewhere.
You guys are definitely closer my God to thee up there.
Good work man. The boys know when I start whistling up a tree shits getting real.
WOW!!!!! You either have big balls or are a bit crazy. Although after watching your videos, yes, I can see you doing that. You took on the job and your dedication said " Git 'er done! " and you did. Hats off to you for that and doing the job yourself and not sending your men into that situation. 🇨🇦 🇨🇦
What a toss on that last one u threw before the "TOP OUT" U are a true pro... Horse shoes, hand gernades, and tree work....
Awsome job. , Sometimes a boss has to do what he has to do. A combination of guts and experience.
I was getting seasick when you were getting ready to drop that top
Great job brother! I sure did my share of crazy tree job's nobody wanted to do! One in particular was a dead bark beetle ponderosa with a live but uprooted oak , both in a wilpez right next to a beautiful cabin! Had to go up the ponderosa and cut the top out of the oak then when I was sawing my back cut to drop 1/3 of the ponderosa top the oak broke the small limb on the ponderosa holding the oak and let the oak push and rake all the bark off the widowmaker pine! Thought for sure it was going to snap! Praise the Lord it didn't! You have great skills and use more and different equipment than I used to. Keep up the good work! You and your crew are true professionals!
I kept finding myself thinking, "He's okay, because he had to uploaded this video...right?...RIGHT!" I actually gasped when the first top went. Great job capturing the anxiety and trepidation in that situation!
The go-pro would probably bounce and happily keep recording. I wonder if August has it in his will to “Upload the footage. Let it always be a lesson.”
Yikes! Dunno what you charged, but it was definitely not enough.
True!
Having that thing sway that much when you know there is a week link way under neath you...oh yeah, makes ya glad you're straight with The Almighty!
August... you are the man! Great confidence in your work. That was very impressive!
Always come back to this one. A great boss to take that one for the team 😂❤
All you needed to complete the party was a thunder storm - Good job by the way, very good.
These are the only YT vids that give me a stress reaction. When you first dropped that last big top I was eh yep that's how it goes, then when you showed the overall view with the thin spot in the stem really flexing, I puckered.
@Brian Carr I agree, and at the same time, I'm giving August the benefit of the doubt there. While it looked BAD to me, he's the expert and he knows exactly how sketchy that was. He also knows he's not just risking his own neck, he's risking his wife's husband and his kid's dad in the process, and taking care of himself is taking care of them. If he thought they'd be OK with him taking that risk, he probably knew exactly where the line was and how not to cross it. In the end, he survived just fine, it went as expected.
OM
The guy on the friction hitch on the bottom did a fantastic job slowing the top down without jerking the top of the tree
These are the kind of men that do not get the recognition they deserve.
That joke about "If I go, you're going with me..." 😐
Ohh, the bonds we share...😜
Hahaha that’s a sobering reality
Hello from Ukraine😀👍👊🇺🇦
I know this is 3 years old, and you'll almost never certainly see this... but August, I was tense the whole time watching. Crazy.
Just watching you men up in the trees cutting makes me pucker. All my tree felling has been from ground level. More power to you! Stay safe.
I'm happy you're a Christian instead of a drunk...you picked the correct coping mechanism.
Be safe from, eastern oregon.
first video I've watched of yours that actually made me pucker.
Yep!
Wow!!! I've been a climber for 25years..I've done some hairy jobs.. but I think I would've passed on this one!! You got balls!!
That looks soooo dangerous!! I am glad that no one was injured or died. The tree is so thin at the top and injured in the middle!!! I could not do this...
Thats one you'll never forget 👊🏽👍🏼🤘🏼
That was a rodeo. Respect earned time and time again. Great job
Good job. I have never done trees that big, but notice that the more branches removed the more it shakes.
Yeah limbs are dampeners. But it can shake more if it wants to with less weight in my opinion 🤷🏼♂️
I don't consider myself to be afraid of heights but seeing you look down at the tree swaying after that top cut made my knees alittle wobbly, haha.
One word: *nope*
For how much?
August is extremely talented, definitely fearless and possibly nuts. Drink heavily my idol
"noodles are cool unless they are damaged" that's an understatement. Good job.
Great job on the groundie letting that line run with that last top out. A good groundie is just as important as a good climber.
That looked like a really scary job on that spindly tree. Are we gonna see the rest of the job?
You're scarin' me, man...
I think we all were.!!
Me too and I 20 yr arborist 😁
What’s cool is that you show some of the difficulties in just spurring up a tree, flip line on the inside of the foot, climbing around obstacles 👍🏻
He's more patient than I have been. I was just tensed up watching you rig out those top peices!!
I enjoyed skydiving when I was younger, but I would need a lobotomy first before being willing to climb a tree like that so high.
I would have run a line between the two sound trees and put a tie in point in the middle for my climbing line. I have done this several times before. I first saw it in one of the x-man's videos. I then use zip-ties to attach my lanyard to the tree so if the top breaks out it doesn't pull me down with it.
I and my 2yr old daughter just watched the whole video together, she actually enjoyed watching you cowboy yelling.... Good Work tree cutting Brother and mad props to your crew!
Okay...so I just started watching this afternoon.....but, this is my favorite one and I have to go to bed after this. Oh I know I will be dreaming...think I'll sleep on the floor. Not so far to fall.
*Okay, now that risk was totally unnecessary. I don't mean seemed unnecessary, was unnecessary. Were you tied off below the damage?*
How can you tie off 50 foot below where you have to cut. Really. No way out of it dude.
Sometimes we ride the line of “man this feels sketchy but I’m almost sure we are good here if done correctly ” and “There is no one more qualified to do this, I’m here because I’m the guy who does these trees”
That being said I have turned down a few. Sometimes you just trust your gut.
Then I must been the guy that got called after you turned it down. I did alot of jobs that others turned down. But I was young then doing all the climbing and rigging is a young man's game at 61 my climbing days are over.
@@kenjett2434 Don't have to be over, just climb safe structurally sound trees.
@@tnt75142 yeah sure what part of this did you miss. This is about cutting and removing dangerous trees. Duh if tree is not dangerous no one would be called to remove it to start with. I see a genius (not) when your called out to remove a dangerous tree you only have 2 choices not do it or you do it. Which is where this started I use to do the jobs others turned down. Only trouble is I am getting pretty old to be doing this stuff it's a young man's job.
Did a lot of slate jobs that no one else would do.
Couple customers told me when they paid me, I said "I knew that." Even when I didn't know for sure.
@@petevermouth6918 as a pro you can usually tell biggest way is cost of job. On a difficult job you always have to charge extra to cover unseen or unexpected problems. So when you make your qoute and they quickly agree without any haggling pretty good bet you wasn't first.
God bless you guys, I have learn so much watching all your videos, it helps me everytime im on a tree. Keep all the good work and stay safe 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Couldn't stop watching...hands sweating...truly No Fear...
You have always had my respect but now even more. You got some big ol peaches in your britches August. Lol
Squirrel smuggler for sure.
IT's a tree for a " Bad tree no x " Video...
That 1 might pass "bad tree 7"
Your Faith in God is greater than most ..... Great job !!!! and prayer yes is always an absolute and must doing tree work. (Especially ones like that.)God bless you and your family and crew. Pastor Nathan Davis
You guys have great communication and chemistry. Looks like a solid team.
It’s almost impossible to explain that feeling of rigging out the final top on a dangerous tree and I would say that the percentage of people that know the feeling is pretty small. For me, the feeling once you’re feet have touched the ground is very similar to that of rigging out that final dangerous top! Great video man!
You said it brother
Totally know that feeling
Second! Greetings from germany!
My hat's off to y'all...there's no way I could do that! I've grown to be scared of heights in my later years, and, at 67 I don't need to be up there if I wasn't! Great job...stay safe!
The way you skidded them down was sweet.