Skid Logging Hardwoods in Central Alabama 2017 HD

[@brentonnoe9538]

I am a Osha Safety Instructor,sorry i couldn't finish watching

[@whistletack]

I don't blame you!

[@johnmarkwebb]

Ha

[@kutunuikunikuni1301]

Excellent choice of hard hats. ...I can't believe loggers still work without basic safety gear. .....unbelievable!

[@whistletack]

The hats caught my attention too. One would wonder if they were hard headed (stupid pun, sorry).

[@gonepullingtoday]

kutunui1 Matu

[@mrgoob76]

*kutunui1 Matua* as IF a cheap plastic hardhat is going to save your life from a VERY large falling branch or tree... for smaller stuff yes it will save your life but NOT big stuff

[@jodyhardy8631]

kutunui1 Matua I use to work in the woods here in Alabama let me say this if osha and the forestry commission sees them without their safety equipment they will be shut down quick

[@normfergus8472]

Really you got to be joking you would be hard pushed to find a more dangerous way to fell a tree - but what do I know!!

[@whistletack]

Ha! No joke! Never saw that technique before. Just hope those guys are still in good health.

[@benjaminhicks910]

Yeah they arent very bright OSHA would have a field day

[@midsouthtimberharvesters6298]

My insurance and workers comp would flip out if they saw that style of cutting. That crew won't be coming on any of my jobs.

[@whistletack]

Those tree fallers surely do set back safety standards a hundred years.

[@midsouthtimberharvesters6298]

@@whistletack yes it does. What I can't dig is how the owner of the company( I'm assuming) talks like its a professional job

[@jeffreybarrows6257]

This was probably the most disgraceful example of logging I have seen, dangerous no directional felling without PPE

[@whistletack]

Thanks for your comment. Can't say I disagree with your sentiments.

[@ah-shawnblakney1553]

Should had a tigercat

[@prestonbarnett2204]

tell me about it my dad cat cutter caught fire why runnin

[@sandmantk4901]

Forest Expert ? After all that collateral damage might as well clear cut it. Notch and wedge duh huh.

[@whistletack]

The owners cleaned up afterward for several years. Not what they expected for sure.

[@johnallen2214]

My family been timber rats for generations. As a boy it was a right of passage to learn to "read the tree" and safely put it where it needs to be. Guy said only 3 people left knows how to fell with that goofy method. No surprise there! Rest probably crushed by tree falling on them, good grief! Giving loggers a bad rap!

[@whistletack]

I'm not a logger, I did take the video. I live in the NW but I do know how to fall a tree safely. That method was the first time I's seen it. The tree fell where it wanted, not in a set direction. It was nerve racking to watch...certainly risky and not recommended.

[@JS-ji5bl]

That's not directional felling because that way of cutting the tree goes the way its leaning..lol

[@digger1825]

No face cut no wedges no hard hat! And fallers won't wear a back pack and a big floppy hat because they need to see and move fast! These are want to be loggers!!

[@whistletack]

The fallers were newbies; it may have been their first woods job. The cut was wedge less purposefully so the hardwood trees wouldn't split.

[@markheppleston1117]

why do so many not wear any safety equipment?

[@whistletack]

I don't know the OSHA laws in Alabama. I guess the crew chose not to wear safety equipment that day. Certainly not a good idea.

[@carsons6519]

Terrible falling no direction no timber saving and risk of splitting to butt because not felled with the fork flat....

[@whistletack]

When I video'd the tree fall no one knew where the tree would fall, it (the tree) decided on its own and fell in an unexpected direction. Thanks for the critique! No doubt, its really dangerous.

[@carsons6519]

whistletack thats my point i cut timber for a living and own a sucessful Buisness in central va logging select cut timber for sawlogs and stave and veneer...those stumpjumping techniques are not only illegal by osha standards but not responsible nor accurate in timber harvesting...im not harping on the saftey either to each there own there life but falling you portrayed is awful....sorry but true...ask any real timber cutter its all on placement and accuracy of falling not cut and see where it might go...my 2cents

[@carlwilliams8354]

Carson S I have never seen anyone cut it without a plan and just hope for the best on direction! I mean if you are calling it a select cut you should at least try to preserve the standing timber you are leaving. That includes the skidder driver from using every tree left as a rub tree too.

[@doon714]

Whistletack Ignore all the super logger comments, It don't matter what you could have done different, These arm chair loggers would always have something negative to say.

[@georgewindsor4182]

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[@rogerwesson3154]

The Farmers Wife

[@geoffreycollis7041]

You are joking mate, take the bloody saw`s off these people.

[@whistletack]

No joke. I'm from the northwest where logging is tightly regulated, I was amazed at the risk the fallers were taking. They logged the whole property with out an incident. Wew!

[@metalman4735]

not two smart cutting down trees with straw hats no wonder they talk funny two many heavy trees fell on there numb skulls