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!👍🏻🌻
@@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!
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.
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
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
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 TH-cam 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.
@@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
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
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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................
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..
@@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!
Lou Fazio every 3-5 years going back through time, it needed proper end weight reduction pruning (and other general pruning) to deal with the ever increasing span and leverage. Additionally, the tree was over watered because of the grass and impeccable landscape, this, combined with all that cement work, had begun to damage the root zone (a separate issue that would have later become a significant safety/anchorage issue.
The way it grew, it almost looks to me like it was cut down fairly early (30-40 years old) and the stump was left to grow shoots, rather than a natural growth with a central trunk. I had an oak tree in my yard that grew that way due to storm damage decades ago, and I finally had to take it down. Edit: I didn't let mine get nearly as big as that one. The other problem with that growth is that a big multi-stemmed crotch like that will naturally create a big basket in the middle for water and debris to sit in and rot, causing it to decay from the center out.
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
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. 👍
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.
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 th-cam.com/video/K9gCdLd2R7s/w-d-xo.html good luck to you :o)
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.
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.
I'm inventing a device I call the DETR (Directed Energy Tree Remover). You just aim it at a section at the top of the tree, hold the trigger and work your way down. The atoms in the wood lose their molecular bond which turns it into sawdust. A large vacuum hose hovering from a nearby crane sucks the sawdust into a container. No chainsaws, ropes, or chippers required. No danger to human or property and no climbing, either. The built-in computer can be programmed to only strike the tree and not any part of the home or other wooden structure that you don't want to dissolve. I know you're going to love it.
August, you must trust your guys enough to be offsite. That's good to have that trust with all, the big dollar equipment around. If your big rig and crane go down, can you still do big jobs like this, without it or would you be at a big disadvantage without the machinery? I like this video, great work.
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
Excellent work men! Especially getting there quickly with the impending hazard. Please stay safe and never get too comfortable with one hand on that saw and the other pushing and directing; super focus always, every second
Being from Northern Michigan, I see a months worth of firewood from that bad boy! The eager beaver impressive, but a waste of firewood, not needed in your warm climate. Great skill and patience on that Widow Maker!
@@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.
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.
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
It's like the old serial episodes,... "Tune in next time, when Monkey Beaver takes on Big Black Oak!" Love it Brother good job Damien and Adam! Stay Safe!
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!!
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.
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 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.
I know that it was a very nice tree, but the main problem, that showed up very early on in its life, was that it was two stemmed. If not kept under tight control two stemmed trees always split like this as they flex in the wind. The damage begins at an early age. Then the opposing stems pull the tree apart as the weight increases and the resulting small splits allow the damp in to weaken the join. A death knell in fact. Alas, the tree did predate the house by many centuries. Wrong positioning for a house really. But a nicely done job by the tree surgeons. Professionals through and through!
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....
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.
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.
Awesome video. I love all the work you guys do. Question for you... When taking weight off a limb like that, where do you start so as not to take weight off the weak side of the fracture thereby creating a huge moment arm on the opposite side? Kind of like if the limbs weight is fairly balanced left-right and you take off everything on the left then the weight on the right isn't counteracted. Does that make sense? I'm just glad Damien avoided the tree crashing on the house! But also curious how you solve that puzzle. Cheers!
The question can’t be answered well because it’s case by case. Except to say that balancing limbs while rigging is by common sense and experience. If you are speaking of potentially upsetting the anchorage of a tree by removing too much weight off one side, this is also case by case and rarely a concern. We did however hop around a bit on this tree, just in case, to guard against upsetting anchorage, because it was so massive and span heavy.
My question is.....where'd you get that industrial strength rope?!! Lol, that's some strong stuff. Caught a break not having to haul the tree remnants too!! 10/10 loved this informative video!❤🌳
My experience doesn't go much beyond climbing them when I was a kid, and making face front cabinets. I am wondering if they could have drilled a few holes and used some fairly thick rectangular band type washers to pull that tree together.
I live in a neighborhood with lots of 200-year old oak trees and the huge one over my home keeps us cool during the hot, sunny months. They do a LOT of damage to homes when they fall. At the nearby grocery plaza a huge oak fell over and killed a Mercedes S Class, a large Infiniti Q SUV and a VW Bug.
@@craigcorson3036 Hi Craig. It looks like a very healthy, massive tree that supports so much wildlife like in Avatar. The utilities company stops by every other year to saw away any dangerous overgrowth.
Had a bad ice storm 20+ years ago. had a huge oak that started cracking like that, my pops took a huge chain(chain no one would borrow was way too heavy) and binder and bound it back together. the tree recovered and is still standing in all its beautiful glory. help whoever tries to cut the tree down and finds that chain that is no longer visible.
I admire your ability to trust your crew! I dont know if I could be so trustworthy🤔.... Guess you either learn to trust or work until you kill over! I'll probably be working until I'm 90😂
Not being arrogant but I truly believe that the ability of your team is a direct reflection of your leadership skill's. I have seen August put more and more responsibility on Damien and Adam after spending the time training them, he now has another good climber and a crane operator he can depend on. Successful leaders recognize raw talent and take the time to mentor it into something that relieves them from all the pressure! Great crew and I always enjoy watching them work!
It's a shame when old trees have to go, especially when they're still so green.. Nothing lasts forever though.. Could've tried a few gallons of wood glue in the crack before taking the weight off.. Garden hose to take the excess glue off.. Maybe some duck tape to help hold it together while it dries... It works on cracked furniture :)
I can understand why they want to save it. They had to remove our "only" 40 years old maple tree for security reason and it was very sad to see it go. The front of the house feels empty and cold with it gone. Can't put a fully grown tree back so the house will never be the same :(
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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.
@Repent! Amen !!!!
@@Lisac4441 Holy Holy is the Lamb
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 TH-cam 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!
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 👍😷
🤣🤣🤣🤣👍
"Big black oak threatens home"
Tree: *yells threats at the house
Lmao 🤣
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
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!!
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!
The thing should have been maintained. Years before it got the the point its breaking under its own weight
A great day when you all go home safe and smiling. Regards from Scotland.
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 TH-cam 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.
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
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 !
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.
Im super afraid of falling from heights and this video made me sweat a little. You guys are amazing.
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!
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
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. 😁👍
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.
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. 👍
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.
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
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................
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?
The moss is beautiful on this tree.
You guys make a difficult and dangerous job look so easy. Well done. Top skills!
As a woodworker my heart sunk thinking of some of those larger straight pieces going through the chipper..
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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Not gonna lie, tree work scares me, always. Pleasure to watch you guys, stay safe.
Damien has become quite a narrator 💪 Way to go bud 🤠. Who needs August ”all the time” 🤣
Oak is very heavy, will no doubt would flatten the house.
Such a beautiful big tree with full ecosystems growing on each branch.
Shame to tear it up but the danger was obvious.
That's a big one, and was never properly pruned when it was young. I don't even think cabling it would save it for long.
Exactly
What should've been done? Generally.
Lou Fazio every 3-5 years going back through time, it needed proper end weight reduction pruning (and other general pruning) to deal with the ever increasing span and leverage. Additionally, the tree was over watered because of the grass and impeccable landscape, this, combined with all that cement work, had begun to damage the root zone (a separate issue that would have later become a significant safety/anchorage issue.
@@AugustHunicke Thank you. That gives the gist to start with. Oh, I'm talking to the boss. That was impressive work!
The way it grew, it almost looks to me like it was cut down fairly early (30-40 years old) and the stump was left to grow shoots, rather than a natural growth with a central trunk. I had an oak tree in my yard that grew that way due to storm damage decades ago, and I finally had to take it down.
Edit: I didn't let mine get nearly as big as that one. The other problem with that growth is that a big multi-stemmed crotch like that will naturally create a big basket in the middle for water and debris to sit in and rot, causing it to decay from the center out.
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...
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
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. 👍
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.
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 ;-)
So glad I found your channel. Absolutely amazing work.
A trimmer is only as good as his groundman
And you guys have a great crew
Yep I'm a grown man
what is the rope tied to? where is it swinging from
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 th-cam.com/video/K9gCdLd2R7s/w-d-xo.html good luck to you :o)
Looking forward to the next episode. You have a good crew there keep up the good work guys.
Always interesting to see pros working.
“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
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.
Nice oak 😎👍
Nice first part. Looking forward to part 2.
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.
I'm inventing a device I call the DETR (Directed Energy Tree Remover). You just aim it at a section at the top of the tree, hold the trigger and work your way down. The atoms in the wood lose their molecular bond which turns it into sawdust. A large vacuum hose hovering from a nearby crane sucks the sawdust into a container. No chainsaws, ropes, or chippers required. No danger to human or property and no climbing, either. The built-in computer can be programmed to only strike the tree and not any part of the home or other wooden structure that you don't want to dissolve. I know you're going to love it.
This tree is such an amazing structure, complex, strong.
August, you must trust your guys enough to be offsite. That's good to have that trust with all, the big dollar equipment around. If your big rig and crane go down, can you still do big jobs like this, without it or would you be at a big disadvantage without the machinery? I like this video, great work.
We can do treework without big equipment. That’s where 95% of my experience is.
When Adam was standing next to the tree, he should have sung "well I'm a lumberjack and..."
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
I would never buy a house with big looming trees.
Wow, that's incredible how the weight shifted back. Trees. Strong yet fragile.
Excellent work men! Especially getting there quickly with the impending hazard. Please stay safe and never get too comfortable with one hand on that saw and the other pushing and directing; super focus always, every second
Being from Northern Michigan, I see a months worth of firewood from that bad boy! The eager beaver impressive, but a waste of firewood, not needed in your warm climate. Great skill and patience on that Widow Maker!
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.
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.
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.
Humm Black Oak, the wood for my 7th grade Wood Shop project. Way back in SO Cal in 61. Almost 60 yrs ago.....
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.
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.
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
thats very sad, to see the end of a big mature oak. it's hundreds of years old. but everything has to end eventually.
I don't know why I do this to myself, I feel like passing out. It's so damn high up there..... 🤢😱
Thank you for explaining your planning of you do your job. Love to watch a professional at work.
Awesome job guys keep up the good work!!!! 🤟🏻🤟🏻 as Buckin’ would say be kind!!
I'm impressed! Good thing someone was paying attention during geometry class.
It's like the old serial episodes,... "Tune in next time, when Monkey Beaver takes on Big Black Oak!" Love it Brother good job Damien and Adam! Stay Safe!
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!!
love to see you guys work :D i was up in a 98 feet beech today.
@@briankennedy1313 yes I am pretty sure 30 meters
We run into cottonwoods like that. Just massive multi stemmed beasts. Good job on the first part. I'm curious to see what that wide part weighs. 👊
Poplar Mechanic we still don’t have an LMI. No way to know what it WEIGHS except by estimating.
Don't ever try to split cottonwood!
Definitely an emergency situation. Can’t wait for part 2
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!
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.
You guys are so amazing. I watched all three videos. Great job done. Men are so smart.
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.
I know that it was a very nice tree, but the main problem, that showed up very early on in its life, was that it was two stemmed. If not kept under tight control two stemmed trees always split like this as they flex in the wind. The damage begins at an early age. Then the opposing stems pull the tree apart as the weight increases and the resulting small splits allow the damp in to weaken the join. A death knell in fact.
Alas, the tree did predate the house by many centuries. Wrong positioning for a house really.
But a nicely done job by the tree surgeons. Professionals through and through!
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😅
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.
Amazing how that big gap closed up. Some people call It a cra Voss ! Lol
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.
Awesome video. I love all the work you guys do.
Question for you... When taking weight off a limb like that, where do you start so as not to take weight off the weak side of the fracture thereby creating a huge moment arm on the opposite side? Kind of like if the limbs weight is fairly balanced left-right and you take off everything on the left then the weight on the right isn't counteracted. Does that make sense? I'm just glad Damien avoided the tree crashing on the house! But also curious how you solve that puzzle.
Cheers!
The question can’t be answered well because it’s case by case. Except to say that balancing limbs while rigging is by common sense and experience.
If you are speaking of potentially upsetting the anchorage of a tree by removing too much weight off one side, this is also case by case and rarely a concern. We did however hop around a bit on this tree, just in case, to guard against upsetting anchorage, because it was so massive and span heavy.
My question is.....where'd you get that industrial strength rope?!! Lol, that's some strong stuff. Caught a break not having to haul the tree remnants too!! 10/10 loved this informative video!❤🌳
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
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!
Yeah, big black things usually wreck homes.
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
i would hate to lose that tree if it was mine
Would you keep it at the cost of losing your house, though? That tree was just aching to fall on it.
My experience doesn't go much beyond climbing them when I was a kid, and making face front cabinets. I am wondering if they could have drilled a few holes and used some fairly thick rectangular band type washers to pull that tree together.
I live in a neighborhood with lots of 200-year old oak trees and the huge one over my home keeps us cool during the hot, sunny months. They do a LOT of damage to homes when they fall. At the nearby grocery plaza a huge oak fell over and killed a Mercedes S Class, a large Infiniti Q SUV and a VW Bug.
@@riproar11 If you are wise, you will have your tree looked at by an arborist, on a regular basis. Keep it healthy and strong.
@@craigcorson3036 Hi Craig. It looks like a very healthy, massive tree that supports so much wildlife like in Avatar. The utilities company stops by every other year to saw away any dangerous overgrowth.
Had a bad ice storm 20+ years ago. had a huge oak that started cracking like that, my pops took a huge chain(chain no one would borrow was way too heavy) and binder and bound it back together. the tree recovered and is still standing in all its beautiful glory. help whoever tries to cut the tree down and finds that chain that is no longer visible.
Very clever pruning. Planning where the limbs will swing. Excellent.
Excellent series of videos guys.. loved watching all the way from Scotland.. 👍
I admire your ability to trust your crew! I dont know if I could be so trustworthy🤔....
Guess you either learn to trust or work until you kill over! I'll probably be working until I'm 90😂
STIHL BORN the human body will
force you to trust someone else eventually.
Not being arrogant but I truly believe that the ability of your team is a direct reflection of your leadership skill's. I have seen August put more and more responsibility on Damien and Adam after spending the time training them, he now has another good climber and a crane operator he can depend on. Successful leaders recognize raw talent and take the time to mentor it into something that relieves them from all the pressure! Great crew and I always enjoy watching them work!
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.
It's a shame when old trees have to go, especially when they're still so green.. Nothing lasts forever though..
Could've tried a few gallons of wood glue in the crack before taking the weight off.. Garden hose to take the excess glue off.. Maybe some duck tape to help hold it together while it dries... It works on cracked furniture :)
Maybe Gorilla Glue :)
How about Flex Tape?
@@mysterymanforu flex tape..lol.. Idk, it could start to float of there's a flood, but it'll sure hold even through the rain :D
I can understand why they want to save it. They had to remove our "only" 40 years old maple tree for security reason and it was very sad to see it go. The front of the house feels empty and cold with it gone. Can't put a fully grown tree back so the house will never be the same :(