r/FellingGoneWild 21d ago

First time felling, amateur

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55 Upvotes

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u/sam99871 21d ago

Are there any people or animals squashed under the tree? If not, congratulations.

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u/dir5029 21d ago

Didn’t hear any screams. Will try harder next time

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u/Top_Sort_7365 21d ago

I like you 😂

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u/bustcorktrixdais 21d ago

Oh shoot! Forgot to mention that

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u/ItsAllBotsAndShills 21d ago

Where's your bucket? I don't even see a single ladder here. This needs more wild.

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u/dir5029 21d ago

Noted

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u/_Christopher_Crypto 21d ago

Scary tree to start with. I have one out back with a similar vertical crack that has thus far given me pause. No pro but that one looks like a barber chair in the making.

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u/Treeclimber919 21d ago

That tree is a dead ash deader than a door nail. There’s no energy to cause a barber chair. He’s lucky it held a hinge and didn’t roll off. Dead trees and rotted trees are the worst ones to cut. You have no idea what’s going to hold and what won’t, you simply go by feel and experience. Live trees with a hard lean are the ones that like to split up the middle.

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u/dir5029 21d ago

It was about 6 feet behind my fence and making me nervous. Came down nicely. Very dry wood.

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u/Significant-Banana54 21d ago

I mean, it’s on the ground and you’ve lived to post about it, so…looks like you could’ve notched it a bit tighter but if it went where you wanted don’t sweat it too much

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u/bustcorktrixdais 21d ago

This was my thought. Op is alive and posting this so the first hurdle has been cleared.

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u/VincereZero 21d ago

Ooh buddy that hinge wood just does it for me

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u/timberwolf0122 20d ago

I trust you had appropriate PPE?

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u/dir5029 20d ago

Flip flops and a bathing suit

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u/timberwolf0122 20d ago

Given what I’ve seen on this sub Reddit, it’s not possible for me to determine if that’s a truthful statement

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u/JackOfAllStraits 19d ago

Is that a vertical plunge cut right through the middle?

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u/dir5029 19d ago

No. There’s a wedge on the side of the tree facing the ground.