Great job on that tree, as a former tree guy myself, that was a tough tree to remove from the ground safely. Glad to see you did it and did not get hurt.
Hey Simeon, I think the quality of your camera work and editing is really improving .. Your videos are becoming really beautiful, and captivating as well as informative and interesting ... brilliant job :)
I was reminded to go back and look at your brother's chain saw sharpening video. Can't find that outstanding file guide here in Chattanooga. God bless, Mark
It might not have pulled down, but at least with tension on it from the tractor then you start cutting and know which way it’s going to fall. For just using a saw, he did a good job and mostly safe practice.
Great work, I needed to see this. Where I'm helping chainsaw and cleanup we have lots of large and small dead trees leftover from a fire that destroyed a lot of the property. I would have never have thought about the dangers your video made so obvious, thank you.
It could have been pulled from the side, then even if the trunk didn’t break you have tension and know which way it will go and can cut the trunk as you pull, but that takes 2 people. Even then there is the possibility the trunk will pop back in the opposite direction the top fell.
That was one narly tree. Only one small suggestion: with all that shiny new gear you should of rolled around in the dirt before starting to video ;). You look fresh off the shelf. Hopefully this means husqvarna is sponsoring you a bit. Great video.
Good job...I would have tried the tractor first,but that your call....as for how you did do it,great ! Done many that way myself...worked on tree crews many years.... hurricane clean up/down power lines ect....Andrew thru Ike....good job!
I really need to learn to watch the entire video them comment. I also liked the subtle physics lesson. Do a cut on the branch stop cutting and start cutting from underneath and meet the upper cut. Let gravity help you and be safe about it. The upper cut allows some bend to the branch and lets the branch sag into the chainsaw from underneath.
That cherry tree has been on your property so long, I would suggest you save many good pieces make lumber and make the wife some lovely rustic furniture to remain in the family for many generations to come
you came such a long way in video filming and editing since the first time i've watched you. it's real pleasure to watch. i'm learning alot. keep on the great work!!
Good job on a difficult tree! We have 6 big wild cherries right along the back of the house we need to take down soon, they are getting the soft/rotten core like yours had.
Holy cow you're completely decked out for this. My husband and his brother have a tree business. I help them sometimes chipping the branches and clean up. We also have a couple lifts so we would have went up into the lift and gotten that broken part off the remaining tree first. Peace🌳🌲
The door swings open and it's ........SPACE MAN ! Save some of those smaller cherry wood branches . They would be excellent for smoking meats. Hmmm, cherry wood . I'm thinking of some finer wood working projects .
Very good. It's always a good idea to cut the material with less pressure first, and clear it out of the way. After all the smaller material is cleared, you only have a couple of logs to deal with that are lighter and more predictable. The greater the challenge, the greater the reward.
Nice orange outfit, looks brand new! It also looks like you are enjoying your new toys including a toolbelt full of woodsman stuff that has never been used! I love tools myself so I know the feeling.
Masterful. Love the tension created by that final strand of danger clinging with seeming trickery up it's sleeve as it lured you closer and CLOSER. This same situation here in oklahoma (or texas) would have involved five guys, four trucks, a tractor, a dog, three onlooking cows and a horse.Oh, and the ol'timer hovering around, telling everybody how they would've done it when he was a kid. Throw in all the comealongs that can be scrounged up and there you have it; a perfect day of fun... XD! btw; quite suave looking in your work coveralls. Very professional.
Nicely done job. You kept it safe all the way through and explored what might happen next with each decision you made. One change you might consider is that cherry makes excellent wood for a smoker if you ever cook that way.
My scariest cut happened last September. Had a 25' tall 24" Aspen hang up in another Aspen. The whole tree ended up off the ground. The base was a couple feet off the ground and the top was still 15' in the air. It sucked!
That was, as we would say in Australia, a "bugger of a tree". As Fred comments below, it was a widow-maker alright, and it fought to the very last cut. Well done Sir.
Good stuff, you have a good grasp of compression and tension. That said a polesaw is a great tool to have for such trees. It give one a bit of stand off and eliminates the temptation to cut above shoulder height with a saw. Also the chain on your 572xp is a bit tight.
Simeon I am a little surprised you did not use the tractor to pull it down, you looked so tentative making your cuts I was hoping that you would not get hurt. I would have used the MS 362, right tool for the right job.
Man, my heart was in my throat! I'm glad you were experienced and used such caution and good judgment. It's past my bedtime but now I've got too much adrenaline pumping to go to sleep and it's all your fault, Simeon!!
wonderful careful job Simeon.I agree with judthemagicdragon your getting better with each video you do.I also love when you include your children in the video's too.Keep up the awesome work Sir
Quick tip: put a notch on top instead of just a straight cut when under cutting bigger wood. It will swing back further and you'll have less cuts. More control too
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You did a good job, as I get older I don't move as fast as I used too and I like a clean path to run away so I would have cleaned up a clear path in more directions you were kinda boxed in with that stone wall.
I found myself holding my breath when you got down to those last few cuts. Wow! What a shame you can't use that wood for building or carving anything. Cherry wood is gorgeous!
Always tricky dealing with windblown, most of my work is extracting windblown trees, often from places with no access for heavy machinery. It's quite difficult to watch a video of someone else doing it, as a viewer you don't get the real picture and can't hear, see and feel how the tree is reacting the way the guy on the ground can, it looked pretty dodgy at times LOL :-) . I've often noticed logs releasing tension when being cut to shorter lengths long after the tree has been felled, you can hear the cracking sound and feel the tension transmitted through the saw. Good video and a nice job.
You have a tractor rope/chains. Your wife should give you a ' slap side the head' for not using them. That tree was dangerous and there is no reason to chance having that tree come down on you. Even putting the bucket against the tree is simple enough protection. Don't take chaces if you don't have to.
This was fun to watch....good job. Have you ever had the opportunity to see the Buckin Billy Ray Smith channel ? Very good woodsman and there is lots to see and learn there as well. Good job 👍
A nicely done take-down. Hung-up trees and blow-downs always take a bit of thinking and planning to do safely. I've been doing some of the same with some 15-20" DBH Red Oaks that blew partway over in a windstorm last October at my place. Most of them were tipped over exposing the root ball, with the top end hanging in another tree. The first one was a fun and interesting challenge. After that, it was just plain work.
Exactly! When I took level 4 of the Game of Logging class, we spent most of a day intentionally hanging up trees and then figuring out how to get them down. I learned a lot of interesting techniques that day. Since we were felling the trees to hang them up, we didn't have to deal with the root ball issues. That can add a whole other level of complication. Watching the root ball stand back up after you cut it off can be fun ... when you are expecting it. A friend once had his running chainsaw yanked out of his hands and thrown about 20 feet when he saw cutting a blow-down and did not expect the root ball to stand back up. He had left about 6 feet of trunk attached to the root ball. It acted like a trebuchet or catapult for his saw.
As an engineer I couldn't help choosing your cuts in my mind as you worked. A couple of times you looked in the wrong direction first, but then went to the right branch after a little thinking. I would have done some undercuts first and topcuts to finish a branch but otherwise I think your method was as safe as you could have with such a nasty situation. It also looked like a whole bunch of work. More than this old man could take on anymore.
That was a huge cherry tree! Quite old. It did not want to come down either. We had a wild cherry break off a large portion during a spring storm. When my husband cut it down the sap was still running. It looked like the tree was bleeding with the sap gushing . It pooled around the base of the tree there was so much. It smelled very sweet. I imagine you could tap them like a maple tree or birch tree.
Not sure what kind of Cherry that was, but parts of the Black Cherry we have around here are poisonous - you are not supposed to let livestock eat the leaves and twigs. If I remember correctly, they contain a form of cyanide.
The Wild cherry on our property, is what we called a choke cherry. Very tiny fruit. They make a mess if it's next to the drive way. I never identified it for sure. As it went for fire wood. The tree was quite red inside. The sap had a light red color. I had no idea trees had so much sap in them. Other then maple trees.
On a mature Black Cherry, the bark looks a bit like badly burnt potato chips (at least that's how a friend of mine once described it to me, and it's stuck with me ever since). Chokecherry is also poisonous. On both of these trees, the fruit is safe to eat, but not the seeds, leaves or twigs. (chokecherry is generally too tart to eat raw).
Great job on that tree, as a former tree guy myself, that was a tough tree to remove from the ground safely. Glad to see you did it and did not get hurt.
Hey Simeon, I think the quality of your camera work and editing is really improving .. Your videos are becoming really beautiful, and captivating as well as informative and interesting ... brilliant job :)
To bad
So satisfying to chainsaw up a mess like that and bring back tidiness and order at the end of the day.
really liked! an a particular thanks on the attention and thinking you given! for all who watch your videos!!!
Good job! You seem to have worked as safe as could be expected and you showed patience and it paid off. Great video, very interesting.
I was reminded to go back and look at your brother's chain saw sharpening video. Can't find that outstanding file guide here in Chattanooga. God bless, Mark
Hello Simeon, no more snow over there you're lucky, here in my region in Quebec over 2 feet of snow, so have a nice day and take care friends. Bye
I enjoyed watching that. Thanks for posting.
good job. I would have just hooked a chain around the outer limbs and pulled it down with a tractor
old time engineer 👍
Yes, seems safer to pull it hard away from you.
old time engineer I was thinking the same thing
It might not have pulled down, but at least with tension on it from the tractor then you start cutting and know which way it’s going to fall. For just using a saw, he did a good job and mostly safe practice.
Rhonda Weber me to
I’ve got two trees that split like that, one a meter up and another 3 meters up. This video helped me a lot on how to think about felling them safely.
Beautiful camera angles. Love the use of the drone. Very professionally done!
Wow, that was a huge tree! Great job with the chain saw, music and drone!!!
Great work, I needed to see this. Where I'm helping chainsaw and cleanup we have lots of large and small dead trees leftover from a fire that destroyed a lot of the property. I would have never have thought about the dangers your video made so obvious, thank you.
Very good! Common sense and experience, you have them!
Biggest cherry tree I've ever seen in Sweden. They don't usually get all that thick. Good job on taking it down carefully.
Amazing on all the things you do in your homestead.Very hard working man .Blessing to you.
Fine job,You and your brother are awesome and very knowledgeable about trees.
Good job. Always take your time.
Great vid. That Husky is a powerful and fast machine.
Nicely done! I like your attitude of taking it with ease, step by step. I learn something for every one of your videos.
I think I would have tried pulling the furthest branch first with a tractor and rope to see if it would break off.
spentacle as hard as that branch hung on, I doubt the tree would have given up that branch.
Perhaps not, but I would have a measure of how well it was attached.
It could have been pulled from the side, then even if the trunk didn’t break you have tension and know which way it will go and can cut the trunk as you pull, but that takes 2 people. Even then there is the possibility the trunk will pop back in the opposite direction the top fell.
Good job I was very impressed by your attitude of safety first
William O'Connor don’t forget that he has an unsheathed hatched dangling from his waist though
Good, safe job! It seems a shame if there's no wood in that cherry salvageable for cabinetry or carving.
I love your videos. They keep getting better. The drone shots are an excellent addition!
That was one narly tree. Only one small suggestion: with all that shiny new gear you should of rolled around in the dirt before starting to video ;). You look fresh off the shelf. Hopefully this means husqvarna is sponsoring you a bit. Great video.
LOL!
Give the new guy a break. This is amateur hour.
You are wrong. This is not amateur hour. He is a better operator than many who do this for a living. I was only kidding him about his new PPE.
He's a cull in my neck of the woods Miss.
Good job...I would have tried the tractor first,but that your call....as for how you did do it,great ! Done many that way myself...worked on tree crews many years.... hurricane clean up/down power lines ect....Andrew thru Ike....good job!
Thank you I learned some very useful tips and tricks.
Glad to see you posting again! Even the pre-uploaded chain saw review.
Also it's cherry so if you need to smoke some meat... Will be delicious
I really need to learn to watch the entire video them comment. I also liked the subtle physics lesson. Do a cut on the branch stop cutting and start cutting from underneath and meet the upper cut. Let gravity help you and be safe about it. The upper cut allows some bend to the branch and lets the branch sag into the chainsaw from underneath.
Great value and design of your video. Well played music and shots. Thank you for another entertaining and informative vlog.
WOW that tree was stubborn. Nice job! Thanks for showing a safe way to fell it.
That cherry tree has been on your property so long, I would suggest you save many good pieces make lumber and make the wife some lovely rustic furniture to remain in the family for many generations to come
SirMonkknight I totally agree 👍🏻👍🏻
Use some of that cherry to make the bread board and knives. Those would be awesome!!
Mr Andy Oooh that's a wonderful idea!
Good job. Enjoy your worksmanship
Hi guys, can I ask, have you ever done a video on "kickback "?
you came such a long way in video filming and editing since the first time i've watched you.
it's real pleasure to watch.
i'm learning alot.
keep on the great work!!
Good job on a difficult tree! We have 6 big wild cherries right along the back of the house we need to take down soon, they are getting the soft/rotten core like yours had.
Holy cow you're completely decked out for this. My husband and his brother have a tree business. I help them sometimes chipping the branches and clean up. We also have a couple lifts so we would have went up into the lift and gotten that broken part off the remaining tree first. Peace🌳🌲
Wow that was quite a tree. It really show cased your skills. Good job!
The door swings open and it's ........SPACE MAN !
Save some of those smaller cherry wood branches . They would be excellent for smoking meats. Hmmm, cherry wood . I'm thinking of some finer wood working projects .
Very good. It's always a good idea to cut the material with less pressure first, and clear it out of the way. After all the smaller material is cleared, you only have a couple of logs to deal with that are lighter and more predictable. The greater the challenge, the greater the reward.
Nice orange outfit, looks brand new! It also looks like you are enjoying your new toys including a toolbelt full of woodsman stuff that has never been used! I love tools myself so I know the feeling.
This was really nerve wracking for me to watch. Thanks for being uber safe!!! Love your channel.
we called trees like that "widowmakers". great video
Great job Simione! Great videography! Oh yah, nice outfit!
Masterful. Love the tension created by that final strand of danger clinging with seeming trickery up it's sleeve as it lured you closer and CLOSER. This same situation here in oklahoma (or texas) would have involved five guys, four trucks, a tractor, a dog, three onlooking cows and a horse.Oh, and the ol'timer hovering around, telling everybody how they would've done it when he was a kid. Throw in all the comealongs that can be scrounged up and there you have it; a perfect day of fun... XD! btw; quite suave looking in your work coveralls. Very professional.
Are u planting new trees to replace ? Cheers
Good sharp chain makes life that much easier when tackling this kind of awkward timber. Well made video. 👍👍👍
That Husqvarna sounds, and cuts amazing. Which one is it?
Nicely done job. You kept it safe all the way through and explored what might happen next with each decision you made.
One change you might consider is that cherry makes excellent wood for a smoker if you ever cook that way.
That's one sharp saw! Good job, well done. Thank you.
Love your protective clothing!
My scariest cut happened last September. Had a 25' tall 24" Aspen hang up in another Aspen. The whole tree ended up off the ground. The base was a couple feet off the ground and the top was still 15' in the air. It sucked!
Dang dude you got all the garb. Looking sharp.
That was, as we would say in Australia, a "bugger of a tree". As Fred comments below, it was a widow-maker alright, and it fought to the very last cut. Well done Sir.
Nice outfit there! And good job on the "ScaryCherry."
Very nicely done, dead trees are totally unpredictable.
my Husky cuts like yours I keep my blade well maintained using the Jig
Good stuff, you have a good grasp of compression and tension. That said a polesaw is a great tool to have for such trees. It give one a bit of stand off and eliminates the temptation to cut above shoulder height with a saw. Also the chain on your 572xp is a bit tight.
Nicely done!
Simeon I am a little surprised you did not use the tractor to pull it down, you looked so tentative making your cuts I was hoping that you would not get hurt. I would have used the MS 362, right tool for the right job.
Man, my heart was in my throat! I'm glad you were experienced and used such caution and good judgment.
It's past my bedtime but now I've got too much adrenaline pumping to go to sleep and it's all your fault, Simeon!!
how do you get the camera to move so fast around and at the end? someone running with it or driving? drone?
Yes Sir, that tree was a Widowmaker no doubt. Your method was very educational and any potential tragedies were avoided....praise the Lord.
Slow and steady ... safety first...very stubborn tree!
Nice work! Excellent chainsaw use and felling, good video editing, and good use of drone footage.
It's always the sketchy trees that hang on till the bitter end! :)
Nicely done. Was that the 527xp?
wonderful careful job Simeon.I agree with judthemagicdragon your getting better with each video you do.I also love when you include your children in the video's too.Keep up the awesome work Sir
The way you handle the chainsaw looks very professional!
Quick tip: put a notch on top instead of just a straight cut when under cutting bigger wood. It will swing back further and you'll have less cuts. More control too
Yes, that was very dangerous. Well done!
los felicito me he vuelto fanatico de sus videos gracia por enseñarnos tecnicas de trabajo ,lo profecionales que son ustedes saludos a ti y a tu hermano desde argentina
Excellent job Simeon. You are making really great videos nowadays. The drone work was excellent. Be proud and have a wonderful week, my brother!!
You did a good job, as I get older I don't move as fast as I used too and I like a clean path to run away so I would have cleaned up a clear path in more directions you were kinda boxed in with that stone wall.
I found myself holding my breath when you got down to those last few cuts. Wow!
What a shame you can't use that wood for building or carving anything. Cherry wood is gorgeous!
Always tricky dealing with windblown, most of my work is extracting windblown trees, often from places with no access for heavy machinery. It's quite difficult to watch a video of someone else doing it, as a viewer you don't get the real picture and can't hear, see and feel how the tree is reacting the way the guy on the ground can, it looked pretty dodgy at times LOL :-) .
I've often noticed logs releasing tension when being cut to shorter lengths long after the tree has been felled, you can hear the cracking sound and feel the tension transmitted through the saw. Good video and a nice job.
Great job! Well done, Sir!
Are you using go pro cam??
I can see why you described this as scary!
You have a tractor rope/chains. Your wife should give you a ' slap side the head' for not using them. That tree was dangerous and there is no reason to chance having that tree come down on you. Even putting the bucket against the tree is simple enough protection. Don't take chaces if you don't have to.
@@jbbrown7907 Safe is a relative term. You use a tractor and chains when you have them, not only safer, also more effective.
Thanks for the video... I learned something here today!
Wow! That sucker just did not want to go down.
Good job
That's a fancy lumberjack outfit y'all wear in Sweden
well done safely to what do you think about the 572?
The saw worked great today.
Save some of that wood for bar-b-que...fruit woods are awesome for flavor. Would be good to do venison.
Or Sally? ; )
Hi Simeon,greetings from South Florida USA.Are there any snakes in Sweden and what part of the country You live at?
This was fun to watch....good job. Have you ever had the opportunity to see the Buckin Billy Ray Smith channel ? Very good woodsman and there is lots to see and learn there as well. Good job 👍
Well done. The last couple of cuts had me tense.
Wow. I don't know anything about cutting down trees but it was very interesting. 🌲
What kind of chainsaw is that?
Beau travail Simeon!
Very good job better when you work with trees like this have always escape root and I personally use and wedges
Good safe removal of a broken tree there and the filming was epic using a drone just makes it a lot more interesting . Keep them coming .
A nicely done take-down. Hung-up trees and blow-downs always take a bit of thinking and planning to do safely. I've been doing some of the same with some 15-20" DBH Red Oaks that blew partway over in a windstorm last October at my place. Most of them were tipped over exposing the root ball, with the top end hanging in another tree. The first one was a fun and interesting challenge. After that, it was just plain work.
John McNerney trees tipped over and hung up in another tree are super unpredictable !
Exactly! When I took level 4 of the Game of Logging class, we spent most of a day intentionally hanging up trees and then figuring out how to get them down. I learned a lot of interesting techniques that day.
Since we were felling the trees to hang them up, we didn't have to deal with the root ball issues. That can add a whole other level of complication. Watching the root ball stand back up after you cut it off can be fun ... when you are expecting it. A friend once had his running chainsaw yanked out of his hands and thrown about 20 feet when he saw cutting a blow-down and did not expect the root ball to stand back up. He had left about 6 feet of trunk attached to the root ball. It acted like a trebuchet or catapult for his saw.
Nice video production.
Interesting, good job.
Oh you make me want a drone. :) great video and good job with that tree!!
As an engineer I couldn't help choosing your cuts in my mind as you worked. A couple of times you looked in the wrong direction first, but then went to the right branch after a little thinking. I would have done some undercuts first and topcuts to finish a branch but otherwise I think your method was as safe as you could have with such a nasty situation. It also looked like a whole bunch of work. More than this old man could take on anymore.
That was a huge cherry tree! Quite old. It did not want to come down either. We had a wild cherry break off a large portion during a spring storm. When my husband cut it down the sap was still running. It looked like the tree was bleeding with the sap gushing . It pooled around the base of the tree there was so much. It smelled very sweet. I imagine you could tap them like a maple tree or birch tree.
Not sure what kind of Cherry that was, but parts of the Black Cherry we have around here are poisonous - you are not supposed to let livestock eat the leaves and twigs. If I remember correctly, they contain a form of cyanide.
The Wild cherry on our property, is what we called a choke cherry. Very tiny fruit. They make a mess if it's next to the drive way. I never identified it for sure. As it went for fire wood. The tree was quite red inside. The sap had a light red color. I had no idea trees had so much sap in them. Other then maple trees.
On a mature Black Cherry, the bark looks a bit like badly burnt potato chips (at least that's how a friend of mine once described it to me, and it's stuck with me ever since). Chokecherry is also poisonous. On both of these trees, the fruit is safe to eat, but not the seeds, leaves or twigs. (chokecherry is generally too tart to eat raw).
WTG We have several trees with literally no branches. Been clearing for years. You have to be very cautious. Never know where its going until it does.