Treehouse

Would insurance cover that?

Wood insurance?

I'd be inclined to say that it woodn't. But I guess that is the question, "Wood it?"

Quite the understated "Oh shit" given the circumstances.

What you dont think insurance would try to weasel out of something if they thought they could, do you?

hahaha, that's what he gets for cutting down a beautiful tree

At least he has some wood to build a new house.

>> ^Fusionaut:

hahaha, that's what he gets for cutting down a beautiful tree


wood boring beetles, that tree could have crushed his house eventually

What's funny is that he probably moved out to the sticks because he's a survival nut who thinks he's going to wait out the coming apocalypse using his wits and ingenuity.

.........and smoke rises.

Can't believe he didn't have a couple people on ropes, sure, you can make the right cuts so that the tree *should* fall in a certain direction, but the weight of the canopy is extremely difficult to gauge, as well as any unexpected winds...

The relatives cut down a twinned giant poplar hanging over their house last year, and I was on ropes, the tree definitely hovered after it was cut through, luckily we tied on high enough and had enough leverage to counter it from falling on the house even with the proper directional felling cuts made. My uncle was EXTREMELY happy he asked us to pull...

We'd hook em to a truck tow hitch, tie it up high, and put tension on the tree in the direction we want it to fall. Even then trees can do some strange things, like pop/slide off the stump instead of falling over like you'd expect. Don't think I would have been crazy enough to cut a tree that large and that close to a house in one big chunk like that.

When moment when your brain starts alternating between "I'm so stupid! I'm so stupid!" and "UNDO! UNDO!"

That's now how it works in Minecraft.

I'm getting "Task Queue failed at step 0: Error #2032" instead of video
* dead?

I think the guy cutting this tree is getting a similar error message.
>> ^mxxcon:

I'm getting "Task Queue failed at step 0: Error #2032" instead of video
dead?

This is why professional tree removers will top and trim a tree until it's down to a manageable size before falling it.>> ^Porksandwich:

We'd hook em to a truck tow hitch, tie it up high, and put tension on the tree in the direction we want it to fall. Even then trees can do some strange things, like pop/slide off the stump instead of falling over like you'd expect. Don't think I would have been crazy enough to cut a tree that large and that close to a house in one big chunk like that.

Twisted on the stump.

This will appear on the webpages of professional tree loppers for some time.

And... best start to a thread I've seen in ages! Well done, team!

Yep. Treehouse of Horror. Upvote for first comment. Not the stupidity, that's commonplace (and the web's only reason of existence is to prove it).

>> ^nanrod:

This is why professional tree removers will top and trim a tree until it's down to a manageable size before falling it.>> ^Porksandwich:
We'd hook em to a truck tow hitch, tie it up high, and put tension on the tree in the direction we want it to fall. Even then trees can do some strange things, like pop/slide off the stump instead of falling over like you'd expect. Don't think I would have been crazy enough to cut a tree that large and that close to a house in one big chunk like that.



Ya, all the branches would have been dropped, then the trunk comes down in nice, fireplace-sized chunks. That tree would have probably been a couple hundred dollars, or two flats of decent beer on a Friday after shift.

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why is there not a CRTL-Z for life?

And here I was saying, "Come on, cars!"

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