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Posted on 11/20/25 at 7:09 pm to stout
The bobcat didn't survive? Could've been worse and hit the house.
Posted on 11/20/25 at 7:13 pm to stout
quote:Take it from someone who's subbed out tens and tens of thousands of dollars worth of contracts out to tree arborists for my equipment and operators: if your arborist shows up in a situation like that and doesn't have a climber to take it out from the top down, fire them.
Two bucket trucks were not tall enough to reach the top, so instead of renting a lift, they went the cheap route and staked their financial liability on a $30 rope.
That huge limb put all of the weight on one side. Any idiot could have seen what was going to happen without removing that weight.
That scenario needs a climber with hoists, ropes, pulleys and bucket trucks, but most importantly, a climber going up the tree to top it out.
Don't ever let a private tree arborist fell a tree of that size in one fell swoop that's surrounded by homes, streets and powerlines. If he tries to do so, he's incompetent, and you'd better hope luck is on your side.
EVER.
Posted on 11/20/25 at 7:22 pm to stout
I told ya baw we needed two ropes
Posted on 11/20/25 at 7:40 pm to Jack Daniel
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But what was the housing market at the time?
Posted on 11/20/25 at 7:43 pm to stout
Lucky no one was killed. Is there not kind of training or school for this type of thing? Or common sense diploma?
Posted on 11/20/25 at 8:01 pm to stout
dont cut the heavy arse limbs off at the top and work your way down or anything.
Posted on 11/20/25 at 8:08 pm to BabyTac
quote:I agree. This was a cluster frick from the beginning.
It’s a hell of a lot easier to take a tree by cutting from the top down. Even if you could control the fall of a big tree like that, it’s a hell of a lot harder to cut it up when it’s laying on the ground.
Idiots.
Posted on 11/20/25 at 8:10 pm to stout
So dumb to ever try and take the whole tree. Need to put a climber up and fell the outlying branches first. I have cut down plenty of trees.
Posted on 11/20/25 at 8:11 pm to stout
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Skid steer gets smoked too
That should buff right out.
Posted on 11/20/25 at 8:12 pm to stout
Good God. I experienced both relief and a touch of guilty disappointment that it did not hit the house.
This post was edited on 11/20/25 at 8:13 pm
Posted on 11/20/25 at 8:37 pm to stout
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These guys will never financially recover from this
Sure they will. They likely dont have shite to even be sued for. The neighbors insurance will pay to fix their house. The insurance company may go after them, but doubtful.
These guys will be back in business under a different name next week.
This post was edited on 11/20/25 at 8:38 pm
Posted on 11/20/25 at 9:35 pm to genuineLSUtiger
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So you just Paul Bunyan that thing and hope for the best. Is that what these guys were thinking?
I think they were driving a wedge into a backcut.
Posted on 11/21/25 at 5:33 am to stout
That was fun, but not nearly as good as the video of that dude who dropped a loblolly on that neighborhood house in Texas a few years ago.
FUUUUUUCK! WHAT THE........ FUUUUUUCK!
FUUUUUUCK! WHAT THE........ FUUUUUUCK!
Posted on 11/21/25 at 5:42 am to stout
I heard a couple salty words when it went down.
Posted on 11/21/25 at 6:12 am to stout
That doesn’t look like the same crew to me? The dump trailer is full and matches the bigger newer bucket truck. I wouldn’t doubt the guys filming were a crew that knew what they were doing working close by and filmed these guys when they saw the mess starting to play out. The bigger bucket truck looks to be able to reach some of those lower limbs, if you look closely they didn’t trim any of that tree.
The hinge cut on that looks extremly shallow to me to drop it forward.Those guys really didn’t seem like they knew what they were doing.
The hinge cut on that looks extremly shallow to me to drop it forward.Those guys really didn’t seem like they knew what they were doing.
Posted on 11/21/25 at 6:23 am to stout
Pretty good aim, or lucky, not sure
Posted on 11/21/25 at 7:03 am to mudshuvl05
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That scenario needs a climber with hoists, ropes, pulleys and bucket trucks, but most importantly, a climber going up the tree to top it out.
This.
Plus, it’s a MUCH cleaner process. Even if they dropped that tree exactly where they hoped, it would have been a giant mess that pissed off the whole neighborhood.
Posted on 11/21/25 at 7:06 am to stout
fricking idiots. 
Posted on 11/21/25 at 7:07 am to stout
The stupidity started when they decided not to take off some of the larger upper branches.
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