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To: ajtj99 who wrote (45423)	12/1/2021 10:13:03 PM
From: Sun Tzu	1 Recommendation Recommended By ajtj99 Respond to of 97957

I saw a video of a guy drop a 100' tree. He had a kid give him his baseball cap and he placed it on the ground. The tip of the tree just touched the hat :) He was my inspiration when I was cutting down my own trees. I have 80' ones. I put a few logs where I planned to drop it and it fell perfectly on them. Later my mom asked how managed to put the tree on those logs. I said that I cut the tree and then with my bro we each picked up an end of the tree and put it on top of the logs <ggg>. I can tell you that when it cracked falling, it was louder than firecrackers. It barely touched the fence with the neighbor. So all was good. There is a picture of my with ponytail and all (don't have it anymore) chasing my daughter with the chainsaw while we're both walking on that humongous dropped tree. Obviously we staged it - but it still looks good.

To: ajtj99 who wrote (45423)	12/1/2021 10:25:51 PM
From: rimshot	2 Recommendations Recommended By ajtj99 Libbyt Respond to of 97957

AJ - be sure to read or watch teaching video enough so you know how to avoid the chain saw becoming bound as you sequentially move further into the "log" there is a method to the madness ... without a full face shield & kevlar leggings, I believe you are asking for trouble without an experienced sawyer supervising you ... the bounce of a chain blade into the chin or face or chest or leg has injured many a novice -- you have no time to react when this occurs keep in mind the major artery between your armpit area and your elbow on the underside of your upper arm - if injured, gives you only up to something like 90 seconds before you are dead I have been assisted by many a forest ranger, and know from their experience this is not an activity for novices, no matter what your confidence level is The Brachial artery runs along the inside of your arms. This artery is deep, but severing it will result in unconsciousness in as little as 15 seconds, and death in as little as 90 seconds.

To: ajtj99 who wrote (45423)	12/2/2021 12:04:27 AM
From: Sun Tzu	3 Recommendations Recommended By ajtj99 JSD Lee Lichterman III Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 97957

Another fund photo from the same year is of my bro in a hammock some 60' high on a tree having a sandwich. For that trees we didn't have the right kind of clearance for me to just cut it down. And like I said, these are 80' trees that 2 people will have a hard time putting their arms around the base. So I cut a bunch of 2x4 and we screwed them to the tree to make a ladder and climb. Near the top we tied it with ropes to create some support and I held one rope that allowed me to pull and guide the cutting to where we did have clearance. The whole thing is on video which thankfully did not end up as one of those Darwin Award things on Youtube. Just as an FYI - we cut the tree down in pieces. It is just that some of the branches were bigger than most trees people have in their backyard. That is what rope tying and pulling was about. We didn't feel comfortable to go all the way on the branch to cut them from the edges piece by piece. To this day some of those branches lay along the fence with the neighbor.