This tree was MASSIVE and tricky to cut down. With over 40 thousand pounds of tree to cut and maneuver around wires, we had our work cut out for us! #arborist #treecutter #treecuttingservice #bigtree
Great video you did an amazing job. Had to lwatch on mute tho. You don't need the annoying music. Listening to the saw is perfect.The music is too loud and overshadows everything. Love
I liked to cool vibe of the music, it fit the methodology of his work perfectly. He was very chill during his work and the music went right along with it.
Very nice job guys! That definitely was a tough one. Serious cudos to the crane operator, definitely knows his craft. It's always a pleasure watching good men doing an excellent job💯
Wow. Just listening to that and watching the crane weight move...brought back all the itch and ache this job brings. Cranes are a god sent to logging that you young folks have no idea to know about. I am in my mid 70's and logged for a number of years and my family owned Drott Manufacturing and logging company from the 1830's thru about the 1950's 60's. They invented many of the equipment of the trade then and improved to now. I still can smell the the sap and the oil/gas even now. My family started with axes, cross saws, saw pits and horses. I used draw knives and bucked" the pulp logs to the skidder for paper as I was too small for the heavy work. Miserable job for anyone let alone a small female. Don't recommend it. Thanks for taking me along memory lane in my wheelchair. You be safe now.
that's a pretty darn nasty maple you got there. I'd say you removed it the safest and most appropriate way possible. Glad to see you staying safe up there man.
Thanks, Jack! Being a good example is my primary goal with this channel. I'm far from perfect and so I'm still happy to learn from f9lks in the comments, but I hope to encourage other people to take the time to take the safe approach.
Awesome ‼️🫡🇺🇸 Thank you! I know you earned your money on this job. This is very hard work! Please take care of your body! We only get one and once it’s damaged/hurt it’s never the same again! I am speaking from experience! I was hurt very badly in 1991… while serving in the Navy. My lower back was hurt. My SI Joints have fused. A stroke a year ago has caused me more damage. Not sure how much longer I have here? I enjoy your videos! You take care of yourself!
Aw man, I'm very sorry to hear that. My dad has a similar story from and auto accident. It's definitely shown me the value of being a little more careful.
I've helped a good friend on a couple big maples like this. I was just a pair of hands on the ground. I watched his climber do exactly what you are doing. I was amazed. Not so much by the height, I'm a roofer and I love the height. But the rigging skills. I had never seen a video of a tree like this from the climber's perspective. You are incredible !!!!!
@calliecooke1817 That's mighty kind of your to say Callie. You roofers are a different breed, too. I hate being on ladders and roofs. It take some skills to work at elevation all day and never fall off of anything.
I'm an 80 yr old woman and this is very fascinating to watch! I feel like I'm in the tree and the narration is fantastic. Kudos to the crane operator! 😊😊😊😊
Hi, I'm a 93 yr old woman in Seattle, and I found this equally fascinating to watch. I always thought a tree was more or less chopped down from the base!! Wrong!! I learned, still learning at this age, aren't we, 80 yr old lady??? All workers were outstanding, certainly knew what they were doing. Thank you for the great video. xoxoxo
I bought the 16 inch milwaukee top handle and the 10 inch pole saw combo because of your videos. I love having the option of going up in the tree without a gas saw. And cuttong first thing in the morning doesnt piss off the neighbors since its so much quieter.
Absolutely! I love that little thing for so many reason. My 201 is just a back up these days 😂 I'm thrilled to hear I was able to make a good example of it for you!
@@zaccheus IN SANE! SO CRAZY! POWER LINES! CHAIN SAW! GNARLY 1/2 DEAD TREE! AND ( ARGH) THE C R A N E ! ! ! just nuts Well no nuts then. Just NO!! NO!! I thought smoke jumpers were crazy
Zach went well when making your cut objective should be to have crane lift without having to break it off. Next time, make the first cut, then cut for top like a wedge cut. Works well crane operator's usually don't like to wiggle or side load boom to make their lift a lot of unnecessary stress on equipment. A huge learning curve will learn tricks of trade as you do more.
I'm familiar with the v cuts and shelf cuts that are common in the industry. They're great for pieces with 3 slings and such. But when a piece is only tip tied and the butt has a little greater chance of moving around when it comes off of the cut, I'd rather get out of the way and let the crane release the piece from the tree.
Haha if I have a good crane operator, I see less opportunity for something to go wrong, however if something does go wrong, the consequences are probably bigger. I'd say I'm generally more confident in the crane than the tree.
Very interesting to hear the weights of the pieces as they came off. Amazing that tree was still standing at all. An all around satisfying video to watch. Good job.
Yeah, people don't generally like jokes with their PPE 😅 That was an awesome tree and a fantastic job getting it all through the mess of wires running in and around it!! 😊👍👍👍👍👍
Very well done guys , what you've shown is that tree felling is an art , I find it amazing how nature is able to survive , even though most of the main trunk was rotten , the tree still found a way to carry on growing healthy wood above the rotten , it's incredible.
I am glad you mentioned the power was off! Always be cautious of the line back feed from mrs. jones generator. The power company should also ground the high voltage stuff because the transformers can amp up a generator back feeding the lines. Nice work and knowledge.
Thanks man! They did have the line grounded which was important because the lines across the street were still live. Wpuodnt want those to get crossed somehow if something went wrong
Haha, yeah, it was! I would haven't never even tried to do it without getting the power turned off. Electrocution is the leading cause of death for tree guys and I don't want to be a part of that Stat 😅
As a marketer, let me just say this as gently as I can: Lose the music, bro. Your voiceover is perfect, and it is plenty. Best tree removal from around power lines I’ve ever seen…and I’ve seen a lot!
I thought maple wood made good furniture. Too bad no one could get ahold of it for that. What a beautiful hearty tree. All that damage and still producing all those leaves!
@pammickle3935 it was an incredible creature. Some kinda of maple make good furniture and some do not. This species of maple is particularly soft and the structure of the tree with those big limbs has a tendency to make the wood grow with stored internal stress in the logs. Thay stress gets released when the logs are cut into board and it makes the board warp. Anything is possible, it might jut be a lot easier with a different species of maple.
Lots of challenges with that one. Good stuff buddy! Ok, I didn't scroll through the other comments, so if this is a repeat ?, I apologize but how did you destroy a raker?
Haha, no problem. The milwaukee saw comes with a .325 lo pro chain from Oregon. There aren't too many chain options in that size, and so I decided to cut the extra little anti kickback bits off with an angle grinder. I made one of the rakers a little thin on accident, and it broke off, so it would catch real bad and was super annoying to use. I got a new chain for it now though.
Ima climber but I haven’t done a crane job yet but the ones I have been on the crane guy always said to put the pin from the shackle on the part of the sling that is not moving as it tightened also all those snap cuts never seen em done on a crane job, one day I’ll be up there n I ain’t gone do what you were doing
That is a good idea. Putting the pin in the eye of the sling would reduce the chances of the pin over tightening and causing trouble for the ground guys. I'll keep that in mind for the next one. The snap cuts seem to be a controversial cut. I don't have a ton of experience with cranes, but the operator here has a bunch of experience with trees and he recommended I make them. Thanks for sharing your thoughts!
Just the big shembiner. I used to have a big carritool, I broke the gate off of it somewhere along the way and found it worked way better without the gate. I think I lost it and replaced it with the shembiner.
Great job Zach! Always nice working with a good crew and operator! Since you’ve got two climbers on site have you ever tried just having Bo set all the slings while you park and cut?
We did do a little bit of that for the more horizontal limbs there. We was one of o ly two on the ground, though, so we wanted to keep him down there as much as possible.
Aw man, I'm sorry to hear that. I hope my head movements aren't too much for you. I've been thinking about getting a special camera for mounting in the tree to reduce helmet cam shots. Either way, I'm glad I've been able to take you along for the ride!
I call a trunk like that a "Ring Of Fire"... just a ring of wood and completely rotted out inside and hollow. It's absolutely amazing how so comparatively little wood around the perimeter could have been holding up that giant heavy tree! That shows how strong wood really is! Who knows how much longer that tree could have remained standing if you hadn't taken it down when you did. It should have been taken down a long time ago. If it had fallen, it would have taken out all of those power lines and likely done major damage to the house as well. What a nasty MESS that would have been. Great job taking it down so cleanly! 👍👍
Could be a very interesting video without tghat nerwrecking way to loud background music that makes allwhat was said nearly unhearable. WHy thes stupid Music? That ruins the hole clip.
Yoke has 3/4, 1, and 1-1/4" shackles with a spring loaded pin. The pin retracts to the full opening of the shackle but is retained. Good for reducing dropped objects. I haven't used them in the real rigging industry but I bought a few for myself and they look good. They say they are proof tested to 200% and are batch marked for proof test and quality traceability.
Ohh that's very interesting, I'll have to look into that. CMI has a shackle that they bore out and put a slic pin in. I'll use it for rigging attachment on big wood sometimes if I'm working with a crew that struggles with knots.
You mentioned modifications to your Milwaukee chain... possibly taking one side of the rackers off? That would make a much better cutting chain, but the folks at Milwaukee don't want to talk about it. On the Oregon Website I saw something indicating that the Government prohibits chainsaw chains of that size from not having the anti-kickback double rackers. I've been thinking about modifying mine also.
I was taking off the little safety tabs that reduce kickback. They also reduce bore cutting ability. I accidently made one of the regular rakers a little thin and it broke off.
I am familiar with it. I just like to get away from the piece before it c9me off. If the operator uses the weight of the piece to make the break, it shouldn't put any undue stress on the crane, right?
I'm surprised some sentimental nature environmentalist activist group didn't file litigation to halt the removal of this old maple tree. But just looking at its decrepit, unhealthy bark and you knew this maple tree was living on borrowed time. Its rotted base foretells the next big wind and thunderstorm when it will come crashing down, taking the power lines with it and falling onto a house. Nothing living lives forever. That maple tree had its wonderous life span but now it's come to an end. The maple tree is so old that no one was talking about the wood for anything else but firewood and wood chips. Maple is a high quality wood much in demand for furniture.
@jeffyoung60 it's always saw to see an old tree come down. It's way more sad to hear about a tree thay crushed a house becaise it wasn't taken down when it should have been. It's hard to predict when the natural end of a trees life is, but we try to get as close as we can so it can be enjoyed for as long a s possible. There are actually different kinds of maple. This tree was silver maple and it's too soft to be good for very much. A lot of the maple that goes to furniture is rock maple or sugar maple. Believe me, if the wood had any value, we woukd have sold it 😅
I've seen many of these videos and I cannot see women doing this job. This is discriminatory. Please allow women to also do these jobs. Climbing up the tree, cutting branches, working around power lines shouldn't be the men-only job.
A food delivery truck tried to turn the corner an he didn't make it hitting a 3-story tree. It was removed in less than 2 hours. Video at th-cam.com/video/WVWX-dkl-e0/w-d-xo.html.
Just reliving my childhood. Your voice over brings to mind the narrator from some TV wilderness or animal show from when I was a kid. Can't remember for sure the name of the show I am talking about. Maybe a National Geographic show? Maybe Wild Kingdom, but NOT Marlin Perkins voice. LOL. Anyway, you have a nice voice to listen too. But please get rid of the music. Or turn it way down. (Sorry)
@marymulrooney1334 no need to apologize, I've gotten a lot of feedback against the music. It is rewarding to hear that my voice wasn't unpleasant. Thanks for sharing everything
The video lacked something important to me. As you were cutting each section off, it would have been nice to see pictures FROM THE GROUND that would give the viewers a grasp from that angle and not just your view doing each cut! So interpose alternating views! Limb cutting, ground level from a far, limb cutting, etc. The impact of your skills would be appreciated more. I would be able to see (or guess) which limb would be next and would get us viewers more involved, in my opinion. But seriously, an EXCELLENT video and a job well done. Thanks for posting! Appreciated.
@nancys2212 thanks for the feedback! It's a little challenging to get shots from the ground on crane work. We work the tree from the top down, so all the lower branches are in the way. I did get some ground footage from another job recently. I think it'll make for a better video to include more angles
Years ago, we took down a huge soft maple that was reputed to be the largest soft maple in the state. It had grown between a house and a detached garage. I don't remember the diameter of the solid trunk, but we welded two crosscut saws end to end to do the final cut. At about 20 feet up, it divided into three branches, each as large as trees we normally encountered. I was the climber for the whole job, mostly just a two men job with occasional third person helping. One of the trunks had a 7 foot black snake that was bird hunting, on another I encountered a mama raccoon and three babies, the last limb contained a honey bee hive in a hollow about 40 feet up. We called a local bee keeper and borrowed his gear and assistance in lowering the sections of bee hive. All done with spikes and ropes. We were able to swing the bee sections to the other side of the garage where a commercial hive was placed. The three sections were cut open to find and place the queen in the new box that had several expansion boxes filled with drawn comb. The next morning, the bees had moved all of the honey and brood to the new hive! Only one sting when the beekeeper let the end of the hanging trunk section rest against his thigh and squashed a bee.
@shermanhofacker4428 Wow, that's quite a story to remember. I enjoy manual climbing and rigging more than crane work. The crane is just more appropriate for some jobs.
Great Vid... but I wonder how much a job like this would cost. Insurance usually doesn't cover tree removal unless it falls on the dwelling, right ????????
@richardt.1755 That's true as far as I know. It has to hit some structure or something for insurance to cover it. I'm just a contract climber and I don't ask cost of the trees I climb. I'm sure this one wasn't cheap though!
What a job! Was fascinating to watch. Reminds me of my childhood when watching my dad use his old McCulloch chainsaw around the farm. Don’t see how you guys lift those beasts of equipment.
@@katherineharper-sj4ys wow, the old McCulloch saws were something else. I must admit that new saws are a little bit lighert, but it's still all I want to do at the end of the day 😅
Nope, not my job! Amazing work though, well done! And yes I'll say..were the linemen in a competition to make the that the most complicated line stringing pattern?
@kylecarmichael5890 haha I have no idea. I certainly don't pretend to know anything about the grid circuitry. I only know that those are spicy ropes amd we can't touch them.
This was so satisfying to watch! I'm curious though, did any of the neighbors give you a hassle? Usually there's always one ready to call the cops, or worst, demand that you show papers or who gave you permission!😁
@j.m.8951 yeahhhh, we had someone who was really struggling without electricity and kinda pressured us into moving quick at the end to get the power back on. It wasn't the end of the world, just an inconvenience mostly.
We know you escaped fate this time by doing something you know you shouldn't be doing (riding the loaded crane). As a possible mentor to the younger generation who follow your channel, was that an acceptable risk for yourself?
As I mentioned, I'm not proud of it. I would have much preferred to set a better example for everyone. As far as managing the personal and commercial risk on site, I had faith in the crane and the operator to protect me from crane failure. You may notice that I kept my climbing rope out of the kickback zone of the chainsaw to protect myself from cutting it. Only being tied in once was really the larger risk. The crane pick was practically a static pick with the cut being horizontal at it was. Aside from the weight, those trunk wood picks were the safest picks of the entire day.
Hi Zach, catching up on some of your older videos. What a job to have a cold with but thankfully you had the Crane with a good operator to assist you. It is awesome that the Crane has a scale to measure weight. It is amazing that the one stump weighed 9,000 pounds. Glad that you were able to get footage of the Crane lifting the pieces from above as that made for great footage. With the Power lines on this job it was really great to have the Crane to lift off the pieces and not worry about the hitting the wires. You have a great talent for creating videos and enjoy all your narration and Voiceovers when necessary.
Great video you did an amazing job. Had to lwatch on mute tho. You don't need the annoying music. Listening to the saw is perfect.The music is too loud and overshadows everything. Love
@@gailalicea1622 I have to agree, the music is distracting from the saws and the conversation.
I agree.
There was music? lol
didn't even notice it
I agree- the music is unnecessary.
I liked to cool vibe of the music, it fit the methodology of his work perfectly. He was very chill during his work and the music went right along with it.
Oh great. Trying to kick my addiction to lawn care videos and this pops up in my recommended! I curse you TH-cam! 😂😂😂😂 (awesome to watch)
@eury5405 Hahaa, none of your other lawn care videos have a crane in them do they? That's gotta be worth something 😅
Same lol
😂
Get out of my mind!
Very nice job guys! That definitely was a tough one. Serious cudos to the crane operator, definitely knows his craft. It's always a pleasure watching good men doing an excellent job💯
Thanks! We couldn't have done with without our operator for the day, Mike. He's so good at craning trees.
@@dominichamel4685 Absolutely!!!!!
Wow. Just listening to that and watching the crane weight move...brought back all the itch and ache this job brings. Cranes are a god sent to logging that you young folks have no idea to know about. I am in my mid 70's and logged for a number of years and my family owned Drott Manufacturing and logging company from the 1830's thru about the 1950's 60's. They invented many of the equipment of the trade then and improved to now. I still can smell the the sap and the oil/gas even now. My family started with axes, cross saws, saw pits and horses. I used draw knives and bucked" the pulp logs to the skidder for paper as I was too small for the heavy work. Miserable job for anyone let alone a small female. Don't recommend it. Thanks for taking me along memory lane in my wheelchair. You be safe now.
Maple? Good firewood?
@@donnadees1971 I'd say maple is regarded as mediocre firewood in this area.
Both the tree surgeon and the crane operator have tremendous skill, they make a great team too. Stay safe guys.
@@vjohnson2400 thanks man, mighty kind of you to say!
You can tell safety is your priority, as it should be. Fantastic job!! 👍
@mollywalsh2860 Thanks, Molly!
that's a pretty darn nasty maple you got there. I'd say you removed it the safest and most appropriate way possible. Glad to see you staying safe up there man.
Aw thanks man. That's encouraging feedback. I really appreciate that!
Great video and good camera work. It felt like I was right there with you. Nice job.
Thanks man!
damm I want you to cut down my oak tree after watching this video.
@kellysongsjones4249 haha thats very flattering 😅 where are you located? I know some folks in some near by states that might be able to help you.
I'm not going to watch
@@bernicelycklama7619 okay 😅 hope you have a great day!
Wow dude, that thing was a beast. Keep going brother, you're setting a good example for young Arborists and making a great name for yourself 💪
Thanks, Jack! Being a good example is my primary goal with this channel. I'm far from perfect and so I'm still happy to learn from f9lks in the comments, but I hope to encourage other people to take the time to take the safe approach.
Awesome ‼️🫡🇺🇸
Thank you!
I know you earned your money on this job. This is very hard work! Please take care of your body! We only get one and once it’s damaged/hurt it’s never the same again! I am speaking from experience! I was hurt very badly in 1991… while serving in the Navy. My lower back was hurt. My SI Joints have fused. A stroke a year ago has caused me more damage. Not sure how much longer I have here? I enjoy your videos!
You take care of yourself!
Aw man, I'm very sorry to hear that. My dad has a similar story from and auto accident. It's definitely shown me the value of being a little more careful.
Thank you for your service Sir! Sorry to hear about your injury!
Thank you for your service, my grandfather was an E8 nuke in the navy. I'm enlisting in the Marine Corps myself
I've helped a good friend on a couple big maples like this. I was just a pair of hands on the ground. I watched his climber do exactly what you are doing. I was amazed. Not so much by the height, I'm a roofer and I love the height. But the rigging skills. I had never seen a video of a tree like this from the climber's perspective. You are incredible !!!!!
@calliecooke1817 That's mighty kind of your to say Callie. You roofers are a different breed, too. I hate being on ladders and roofs. It take some skills to work at elevation all day and never fall off of anything.
Fascinating to watch, Zach! Amazing work! Hope some of that maple wood can be used to build something nice.
NOT ME JACK!!!!! Trees like that scare the heck outta me!!!!
I'm an 80 yr old woman and this is very fascinating to watch! I feel like I'm in the tree and the narration is fantastic. Kudos to the crane operator! 😊😊😊😊
Hi, I'm a 93 yr old woman in Seattle, and I found this equally fascinating to watch. I always thought a tree was more or less chopped down from the base!! Wrong!! I learned, still learning at this age, aren't we, 80 yr old lady??? All workers were outstanding, certainly knew what they were doing. Thank you for the great video. xoxoxo
I bought the 16 inch milwaukee top handle and the 10 inch pole saw combo because of your videos. I love having the option of going up in the tree without a gas saw. And cuttong first thing in the morning doesnt piss off the neighbors since its so much quieter.
Absolutely! I love that little thing for so many reason. My 201 is just a back up these days 😂 I'm thrilled to hear I was able to make a good example of it for you!
@@zaccheus
IN SANE!
SO CRAZY!
POWER LINES!
CHAIN SAW!
GNARLY 1/2 DEAD TREE!
AND ( ARGH) THE
C R A N E ! ! !
just nuts
Well no nuts then.
Just NO!! NO!!
I thought smoke jumpers were crazy
What a great video thank you for taking us along. That looks so dangerous. I'm happy that you are so careful.
Being afraid of heights My stomach was in knots watching this but I stuck with it to the end amazing
Same here!
What bravery! Enjoyed from Texas!
Zach went well when making your cut objective should be to have crane lift without having to break it off. Next time, make the first cut, then cut for top like a wedge cut. Works well crane operator's usually don't like to wiggle or side load boom to make their lift a lot of unnecessary stress on equipment. A huge learning curve will learn tricks of trade as you do more.
I'm familiar with the v cuts and shelf cuts that are common in the industry. They're great for pieces with 3 slings and such. But when a piece is only tip tied and the butt has a little greater chance of moving around when it comes off of the cut, I'd rather get out of the way and let the crane release the piece from the tree.
Are you more or less nervous when using a crane over rigging stuff diwn manually?
Haha if I have a good crane operator, I see less opportunity for something to go wrong, however if something does go wrong, the consequences are probably bigger. I'd say I'm generally more confident in the crane than the tree.
Very interesting to hear the weights of the pieces as they came off. Amazing that tree was still standing at all. An all around satisfying video to watch. Good job.
Yeah, people don't generally like jokes with their PPE 😅 That was an awesome tree and a fantastic job getting it all through the mess of wires running in and around it!! 😊👍👍👍👍👍
Haha true 😅 thanks man!
Amazing team work. I've never thought about how much a tree weighs.
@theresaburg5881 they're surprisingly heavy sometimes!
👏👏👏 Excellent job❤
Very well done guys , what you've shown is that tree felling is an art , I find it amazing how nature is able to survive , even though most of the main trunk was rotten , the tree still found a way to carry on growing healthy wood above the rotten , it's incredible.
Diggin' the sidewalk going up and around the root😂
Great job Zach.Greetings from Poland!
Thank you!
What incredible skill you guys have! Bravo!!!! Great work! Great video!!!! The voice over was just fine! Thanks!!!!
@Aunty-A Thanks Aunty-A!
I am glad you mentioned the power was off! Always be cautious of the line back feed from mrs. jones generator. The power company should also ground the high voltage stuff because the transformers can amp up a generator back feeding the lines. Nice work and knowledge.
Thanks man! They did have the line grounded which was important because the lines across the street were still live. Wpuodnt want those to get crossed somehow if something went wrong
Holy cats, that was a sketchy tree! All those power lines were making my hair stand on end!
Haha, yeah, it was! I would haven't never even tried to do it without getting the power turned off. Electrocution is the leading cause of death for tree guys and I don't want to be a part of that Stat 😅
@@zaccheus Yikes! Yeah that's not good!
I like how you made one pick with the husqvarna and then next scene you have a good saw. That was favorite.
Haha husky makes good stuff. That little saw was having a bad day and it had a short pull cord on it which was really frustrating me 😂
@@zaccheus it’s fun to tease. It’s like the whole Ford VS Chevy thing, Chevy is just better…🤷♂️
@toomanytrees218 haha, of course. I do give bo a little bit if a hard time for his choice in saws. He gives it right back though
Wow that was a huge tree. There was electric wires too not good. You did a wonderful job.
Thank you!
This is so AMAZING!!!!! Thank you so much for sharing it!! I felt as if i were in the tree with you!!!!! God Bless!!!!!❤
As a marketer, let me just say this as gently as I can: Lose the music, bro. Your voiceover is perfect, and it is plenty. Best tree removal from around power lines I’ve ever seen…and I’ve seen a lot!
@@CogentConsult okay thanks for that feedback!
I'm curious as to how much you charge to remove that tree?
I thought maple wood made good furniture. Too bad no one could get ahold of it for that. What a beautiful hearty tree. All that damage and still producing all those leaves!
@pammickle3935 it was an incredible creature. Some kinda of maple make good furniture and some do not. This species of maple is particularly soft and the structure of the tree with those big limbs has a tendency to make the wood grow with stored internal stress in the logs. Thay stress gets released when the logs are cut into board and it makes the board warp. Anything is possible, it might jut be a lot easier with a different species of maple.
Enjoyed the video. A huge decayed tree. That's WORK. Especially when you're not 100%. Really nice job. Kudos to the crane man.
Glad to hear it! The crane operator, Mike, killed it on this tree.
Super job. Loved the narration as well. Hop to see you again.
Great job guys it was amazing.
Lots of challenges with that one. Good stuff buddy! Ok, I didn't scroll through the other comments, so if this is a repeat ?, I apologize but how did you destroy a raker?
Haha, no problem. The milwaukee saw comes with a .325 lo pro chain from Oregon. There aren't too many chain options in that size, and so I decided to cut the extra little anti kickback bits off with an angle grinder. I made one of the rakers a little thin on accident, and it broke off, so it would catch real bad and was super annoying to use. I got a new chain for it now though.
Ima climber but I haven’t done a crane job yet but the ones I have been on the crane guy always said to put the pin from the shackle on the part of the sling that is not moving as it tightened also all those snap cuts never seen em done on a crane job, one day I’ll be up there n I ain’t gone do what you were doing
That is a good idea. Putting the pin in the eye of the sling would reduce the chances of the pin over tightening and causing trouble for the ground guys. I'll keep that in mind for the next one. The snap cuts seem to be a controversial cut. I don't have a ton of experience with cranes, but the operator here has a bunch of experience with trees and he recommended I make them. Thanks for sharing your thoughts!
Watching you cut this dead and rotting tree down in pieces, I understand why it is so expensive to remove such trees from a property. Amazing.🤗💚
Thanks for another good one! That thing was a monster!
You make it look easy. Much respect. Does someone follow up with a stump grinder?
At 4:40 you hook the 500 on your side. Is it just like a big Cari tool or whatever a big hook you hang the saw on
Just the big shembiner. I used to have a big carritool, I broke the gate off of it somewhere along the way and found it worked way better without the gate. I think I lost it and replaced it with the shembiner.
Love the voice over explanation of why you are doing what you are doing as you go along.
@@Laughinghawg thanks!
That was different. Never a dull moment :)
I cannot believe they had power wires going through a tree like that! You did a great job getting it down though.
@@frasercrone3838 thank you!
The tree went through the power wires i think?
Very good job done.🎉🎉🎉
Great job Zach! Always nice working with a good crew and operator! Since you’ve got two climbers on site have you ever tried just having Bo set all the slings while you park and cut?
We did do a little bit of that for the more horizontal limbs there. We was one of o ly two on the ground, though, so we wanted to keep him down there as much as possible.
The only way I can do something like this is watching you do it because I have vertigo but I love watching it. Great job.
Aw man, I'm sorry to hear that. I hope my head movements aren't too much for you. I've been thinking about getting a special camera for mounting in the tree to reduce helmet cam shots. Either way, I'm glad I've been able to take you along for the ride!
Outstanding job unbelievable what a log weights.. I'm totally surprised that the tree didn't fall over from the rot !!!
I call a trunk like that a "Ring Of Fire"... just a ring of wood and completely rotted out inside and hollow. It's absolutely amazing how so comparatively little wood around the perimeter could have been holding up that giant heavy tree! That shows how strong wood really is! Who knows how much longer that tree could have remained standing if you hadn't taken it down when you did. It should have been taken down a long time ago. If it had fallen, it would have taken out all of those power lines and likely done major damage to the house as well. What a nasty MESS that would have been. Great job taking it down so cleanly! 👍👍
Why annoying music?? Its so unnecessary
@dulajohnstone5704 Thanks for that feedback!
Could be a very interesting video without tghat nerwrecking way to loud background music that makes allwhat was said nearly unhearable. WHy thes stupid Music? That ruins the hole clip.
Yoke has 3/4, 1, and 1-1/4" shackles with a spring loaded pin. The pin retracts to the full opening of the shackle but is retained. Good for reducing dropped objects. I haven't used them in the real rigging industry but I bought a few for myself and they look good. They say they are proof tested to 200% and are batch marked for proof test and quality traceability.
Ohh that's very interesting, I'll have to look into that. CMI has a shackle that they bore out and put a slic pin in. I'll use it for rigging attachment on big wood sometimes if I'm working with a crew that struggles with knots.
@@zaccheusYoke or B/A Products Twist Lock shackle. Yoke makes these but I guess B/A is marketing them. B/A does towing and trailer stuff.
Great video! Amazing job and narration. Please don’t play the music!
You mentioned modifications to your Milwaukee chain... possibly taking one side of the rackers off? That would make a much better cutting chain, but the folks at Milwaukee don't want to talk about it. On the Oregon Website I saw something indicating that the Government prohibits chainsaw chains of that size from not having the anti-kickback double rackers. I've been thinking about modifying mine also.
I was taking off the little safety tabs that reduce kickback. They also reduce bore cutting ability. I accidently made one of the regular rakers a little thin and it broke off.
I almost had to take some Dramamine! Hahahahaha hahahaha ❤😂😂😂😖
@amyaiken576 Haha I'm sorry about that. Sometimes the helmet cam isn't the best, I'm hoping to mount the camera in the tree more in the future
I love the commentary after every cut. Awesome job on this vid
@@izzy123412457 thanks man, I appreciate that feedback!
Great video nice work greetings from 🇳🇱 HOLLAND🎉
Got a real saw now 😂 love it. Hey buddy try a shelf cut out next time. I think you like it, it’s a bit less stressful on crane.
I am familiar with it. I just like to get away from the piece before it c9me off. If the operator uses the weight of the piece to make the break, it shouldn't put any undue stress on the crane, right?
don't know why you sawing that tree down Turns me on💋, Anyway,
Great job guys❗️.
I'm surprised some sentimental nature environmentalist activist group didn't file litigation to halt the removal of this old maple tree. But just looking at its decrepit, unhealthy bark and you knew this maple tree was living on borrowed time. Its rotted base foretells the next big wind and thunderstorm when it will come crashing down, taking the power lines with it and falling onto a house.
Nothing living lives forever. That maple tree had its wonderous life span but now it's come to an end.
The maple tree is so old that no one was talking about the wood for anything else but firewood and wood chips. Maple is a high quality wood much in demand for furniture.
@jeffyoung60 it's always saw to see an old tree come down. It's way more sad to hear about a tree thay crushed a house becaise it wasn't taken down when it should have been. It's hard to predict when the natural end of a trees life is, but we try to get as close as we can so it can be enjoyed for as long a s possible. There are actually different kinds of maple. This tree was silver maple and it's too soft to be good for very much. A lot of the maple that goes to furniture is rock maple or sugar maple. Believe me, if the wood had any value, we woukd have sold it 😅
Very interesting. The young man doing the cutting and the crane operator were obviously very skilled at what they do.
This is an awesome episode! Crushing it, Zach!
@BissellMapleFarm Thanks Nate!
What ever you got paid…it wasn’t enough! The home owners, can now sleep at night, knowing that tree won’t come down of them in the next Storm!
Can't believe that rotten trunk was holding up the incredible mass of that tree!
Looks like a problem tree that the town didn’t want to do or couldn’t handle it themselves. Great job though and getting it done !!!
I've seen many of these videos and I cannot see women doing this job. This is discriminatory. Please allow women to also do these jobs. Climbing up the tree, cutting branches, working around power lines shouldn't be the men-only job.
@@djekna If you know a woman that wants to do it, send her my way. I used to employ a lady and she was a great worker.
That 9000lb stump would make a nice dinner table piece.
As always class A stuff there my friend. I was wondering if those lines were still hot!
Haha not a chance! It wasn't primary power, but I don't need to be that close to electricity. I've got enough other work to do 😂
Zaccheus up in the tree, deja vu! Amazing job!
A food delivery truck tried to turn the corner an he didn't make it hitting a 3-story tree. It was removed in less than 2 hours. Video at th-cam.com/video/WVWX-dkl-e0/w-d-xo.html.
@themovietheatre pretty cool looks like those fellas had some nice equipment
Amazing. So nerve wracking. Fun to watch.
Your the man !!! What a job !!!! Thanks for taking us along . 7 feet across , wow !!!
Haha thanks Adrian, it was huge 😂
as Ron Pratt, (MIDWEST TRUCK) Towing videos, would say, :Power lines are the ""ARC Nemesis""😆⚡⚡⚡⚡⚡⚡
@brucemartini2288 haha I love that 😂
Bergelantungan di atas keyinggian😮
Just reliving my childhood. Your voice over brings to mind the narrator from some TV wilderness or animal show from when I was a kid. Can't remember for sure the name of the show I am talking about. Maybe a National Geographic show? Maybe Wild Kingdom, but NOT Marlin Perkins voice. LOL. Anyway, you have a nice voice to listen too. But please get rid of the music. Or turn it way down. (Sorry)
@marymulrooney1334 no need to apologize, I've gotten a lot of feedback against the music. It is rewarding to hear that my voice wasn't unpleasant. Thanks for sharing everything
The video lacked something important to me. As you were cutting each section off, it would have been nice to see pictures FROM THE GROUND that would give the viewers a grasp from that angle and not just your view doing each cut! So interpose alternating views! Limb cutting, ground level from a far, limb cutting, etc. The impact of your skills would be appreciated more. I would be able to see (or guess) which limb would be next and would get us viewers more involved, in my opinion.
But seriously, an EXCELLENT video and a job well done. Thanks for posting! Appreciated.
@nancys2212 thanks for the feedback! It's a little challenging to get shots from the ground on crane work. We work the tree from the top down, so all the lower branches are in the way. I did get some ground footage from another job recently. I think it'll make for a better video to include more angles
Great job. Not many guys into this kind of work so I guess you stay busy. Stay safe
this is nerve- racking just watching, great job of taking that tree down, the crane operator is top notch
I have never seen a tree with so many wired hazards around it.
@@OldFliersGroup this one definitely had a lot!
I KNOW the homeowner is glad that tree is gone .It should have been gone years ago
Years ago, we took down a huge soft maple that was reputed to be the largest soft maple in the state. It had grown between a house and a detached garage. I don't remember the diameter of the solid trunk, but we welded two crosscut saws end to end to do the final cut. At about 20 feet up, it divided into three branches, each as large as trees we normally encountered. I was the climber for the whole job, mostly just a two men job with occasional third person helping. One of the trunks had a 7 foot black snake that was bird hunting, on another I encountered a mama raccoon and three babies, the last limb contained a honey bee hive in a hollow about 40 feet up. We called a local bee keeper and borrowed his gear and assistance in lowering the sections of bee hive. All done with spikes and ropes. We were able to swing the bee sections to the other side of the garage where a commercial hive was placed. The three sections were cut open to find and place the queen in the new box that had several expansion boxes filled with drawn comb. The next morning, the bees had moved all of the honey and brood to the new hive! Only one sting when the beekeeper let the end of the hanging trunk section rest against his thigh and squashed a bee.
@shermanhofacker4428 Wow, that's quite a story to remember. I enjoy manual climbing and rigging more than crane work. The crane is just more appropriate for some jobs.
Glad to see another video Great Work Hans From the Netherlands
Amazing job ! Such scary work !
Good show Zach. I see you ditched the "Bo saw" real quick but it's good to see Bo is a zig zag guy!😁
Haha, it was not a good day for me and husqvarna 😂 yes he is. I would have been on a zig zag that smday too if I hadn't left mine at home 🤦♂️
Great Vid... but I wonder how much a job like this would cost. Insurance usually doesn't cover tree removal unless it falls on the dwelling, right ????????
@richardt.1755 That's true as far as I know. It has to hit some structure or something for insurance to cover it. I'm just a contract climber and I don't ask cost of the trees I climb. I'm sure this one wasn't cheap though!
Great job by the tree workers and the crane operator removing a dead tree in a dangerous place.
Any fossilized keebler elves in there?
I'm just thinking that's probably the reason the tree was not taken down previously
@deadmanswife3625 haha I didn't see any, but that's definitely the best theory anyone has mentioned 😂
What a job! Was fascinating to watch. Reminds me of my childhood when watching my dad use his old McCulloch chainsaw around the farm. Don’t see how you guys lift those beasts of equipment.
@@katherineharper-sj4ys wow, the old McCulloch saws were something else. I must admit that new saws are a little bit lighert, but it's still all I want to do at the end of the day 😅
Very interesting and entertaining. Thank you guys😅😊
Amazing work!! But nothing I would ever try myself!!😊
@@annecornine8469 thanks!
Wow! What a job you had. Great job to you and your crew.
@@jenniferschnieder6316 thank you!
Nope, not my job! Amazing work though, well done! And yes I'll say..were the linemen in a competition to make the that the most complicated line stringing pattern?
@kylecarmichael5890 haha I have no idea. I certainly don't pretend to know anything about the grid circuitry. I only know that those are spicy ropes amd we can't touch them.
Good work and good video but the music is too loud/ distracting
This was so satisfying to watch! I'm curious though, did any of the neighbors give you a hassle? Usually there's always one ready to call the cops, or worst, demand that you show papers or who gave you permission!😁
@j.m.8951 yeahhhh, we had someone who was really struggling without electricity and kinda pressured us into moving quick at the end to get the power back on. It wasn't the end of the world, just an inconvenience mostly.
Very nice job
@@soltanakouider5922 Thank you!
We know you escaped fate this time by doing something you know you shouldn't be doing (riding the loaded crane). As a possible mentor to the younger generation who follow your channel, was that an acceptable risk for yourself?
As I mentioned, I'm not proud of it. I would have much preferred to set a better example for everyone. As far as managing the personal and commercial risk on site, I had faith in the crane and the operator to protect me from crane failure. You may notice that I kept my climbing rope out of the kickback zone of the chainsaw to protect myself from cutting it. Only being tied in once was really the larger risk. The crane pick was practically a static pick with the cut being horizontal at it was. Aside from the weight, those trunk wood picks were the safest picks of the entire day.
Hi Zach, catching up on some of your older videos. What a job to have a cold with but thankfully you had the Crane with a good operator to assist you.
It is awesome that the Crane has a scale to measure weight. It is amazing that the one stump weighed 9,000 pounds.
Glad that you were able to get footage of the Crane lifting the pieces from above as that made for great footage.
With the Power lines on this job it was really great to have the Crane to lift off the pieces and not worry about the hitting the wires.
You have a great talent for creating videos and enjoy all your narration and Voiceovers when necessary.
@benburns5995 Thanks, man! I really appreciate that feedback.
Sure can’t be scared of heights doing that.