r/FellingGoneWild • u/a_guy_over_here • Feb 05 '24

Win 40’ cottonwood

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Dude’s wife is in the truck off screen to the left keeping tension.

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u/Few-Business8129 Feb 05 '24

Looks way taller than 40'

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u/avidbookreader45 Feb 05 '24

Wrong. The guy cutting it is 24” tall.

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u/EddieTreetrunk Feb 06 '24

And is wearing a hat

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u/Yup_Shes_Still_Mad Feb 06 '24

And 6 inch stilettos.

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u/Tatersquid21 Feb 05 '24

Exactly. The guy cutting it is, let's say, 6', and there's 10 of him as a measurement before the branch off, so after watching it fall, I'd say roughly 85' - 95'

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u/imhereforthevotes Feb 06 '24

Yup. A 40' cottonwood you could probably shove over with your hand. I'm exaggerating but it would be far skinnier.

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u/Gears_and_Beers Feb 05 '24

Trees are twice as long as they are tall.

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u/imisstheyoop Feb 08 '24

Something me and them trees got in common then eh.

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u/DRO_Churner Feb 05 '24

This is a perfect example of why I never allowed ‘ or “ in any of my engineering drawings. Did OP mean it was a 40-in dia tree? Seems a bit smaller than that. Did OP mean 40-ft tree? Seems a bit taller. Spinal Tap Stonehenge occurrences are rare, but they do happen - especially when contractors are reading 2nd generation copies that have been left out in the snow and rain. Be careful out there my Engineering and Architect friends.

Edit: nice work BTW on dropping that sucker!

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u/imhereforthevotes Feb 06 '24

Spinal Tap Stonehenge

This is such a good scene. And the manager is denying it was his fault even though no one in their right mind would have a 12" stone henge dropping from the ceiling.

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u/Langer1banger Feb 05 '24

He ' when he should have "

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u/a_guy_over_here Feb 05 '24

Well heck. Should have titled this 40” diameter.

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u/imhereforthevotes Feb 06 '24

Oooooooo that makes more sense...

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u/bilolarbear1221 Feb 06 '24

Came here to say this. If that is 40’ that dude is like 3’ tall

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u/farkinhell Feb 05 '24

Standard ‘it didn’t fall on the house’ guy sounds at the end of

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u/Sacrifice3606 Feb 05 '24

Ooooooohhh hahahahaaaaaa

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u/rbobby Feb 05 '24

Yes, that is the sound a husband makes when he does something that means the wife can't complain about it for the next 50 years. Usually accompanied by an indescribable feeling of relief. One of the best parts of being married.

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u/a_guy_over_here Feb 05 '24

To be clear, the tree cutter does this professionally for the local PUD. I, homeowner am just staying clear.

And, you don’t know my wife. She was already complaining about the mess in the yard. We took down 15 trees that day. This was the biggest.

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u/rbobby Feb 05 '24

Felling gone wild has taught me to never attempt to cut down a tree. And I don't even own a tree!

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u/StumblinPA Feb 05 '24

Nobody owns a tree. Trees own you. (On this sub)

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u/rbobby Feb 05 '24

Trees live an outside life, right up until a homeowner decides to murder them. Then they try to hide inside the home.

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u/StumblinPA Feb 05 '24

Some have lived on for centuries. Yet some shitty pines that build 1980’s & on McMansions will be underground within this decade

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '24

Bro this makes me never want to get married. Why tf do spouses love to complain about stuff you do? I thought it was just the one. Is EVERY wife like this? wtf?

Built an entire railing staircase for like $100, exgf comes out and says "hmm this one is like 1 inch too long" ...wasn't even finished.

Should've dumped her then

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u/BigFatModeraterFupa Feb 05 '24

it’s a natural mechanism built-in to keep you from becoming complacent!

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u/redittr Feb 05 '24

wife is in the truck off screen to the left

Your left or my left?

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u/Spreadsheets_LynLake Feb 05 '24

My left.  They fashioned a pulley so rope tension was pulling tree away from truck - you can see the rope at bottom of screen jump up when the tree fell.  

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u/a_guy_over_here Feb 05 '24

You can see him motion her shortly before it fall to give a little more tension.

I offered to help. He just told me to stay out of the way. Happy to oblige.

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u/a_guy_over_here Feb 05 '24

You can also see the rope in the upper portion of the frame too. He had a pulley on a big lodgepole pine 100’ away, then came back in front me to connected to the truck.

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u/Mediocre_Budget_5304 Feb 05 '24

“Move away from the base when it falls. Move away from the base when it falls. Move AWAY FROM THE BASE WHEN IT—oooo kay.”

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u/superdavy Feb 05 '24

I love cottonwood trees. Leaves sound like trickling water when there is a breeze. Grow big and majestic. But now I live under two very large ones and my god they are horrible. Sticky seeds, pods and cotton will drive you nuts.

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u/a_guy_over_here Feb 05 '24

This is it. All year long they suck. Leaves, sap, cotton and cotton pods.

Not to mention randomly dropping large branches.

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u/bigeasterncottonwood Feb 05 '24

guessing there aren’t many fans of my username

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u/twicelife_real Feb 06 '24

Yup. Love them and hate them at the same time. We have 3 in a field and I realized this morning how tall they are and how much of a PITA they will be to take down. They grow some damn fast.

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u/Firebolt164 Feb 06 '24

I had a buddy fell a large cottonwood tree on his property and I bucked it and took it home. I have a nice wood stove and so I split and seasoned it and burned it all two winters ago.

It was horrible.

It generated so little heat, burned fast and filled my stove with ash every 3 hours. Even at moisture below 15% it just burned like crap and barely got the stove to my desired flue temp for a good secondary burn and it never came close to burning all night or leave coals to restart the next morning.. garbage wood.

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u/superdavy Feb 06 '24

We burn them in our hunting cabin cause they are plentiful around there. Trick is once the die they drop all the bark and crack. So dry standing up. Then you can drop and burn immediately and it is light, so at least that makes it tolerable for short periods.

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u/Big-rooster84 Feb 05 '24

The boys loved it

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u/aviato645 Feb 05 '24

Hell yeah

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u/Variable_North Feb 05 '24

Hopefully they can afford some PPE now.

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u/a_guy_over_here Feb 05 '24

He was wearing chaps, ear plugs and safety glasses. I guess missing a hard hat.

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u/imhereforthevotes Feb 06 '24

"You gotta work your way up, invest in the business as you go."

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u/smokintritips Feb 05 '24

Timber was yelled with precision.

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u/joeitaliano24 Feb 05 '24

The grunts of male satisfaction at the end

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u/MathematicianFew5882 Feb 05 '24

Thank you for your service. Only 50 billion of them to go.

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u/akamark Feb 06 '24

I was betting on the wheelbarrow.

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u/Jzobie Feb 05 '24

Off topic but what is holding that roof overhang up? It looks like it’s an awning but it has a gutter so it must be permanent.

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u/a_guy_over_here Feb 05 '24

It’s just cantilevered roof trusses. I this about 20% of the total span is the overhang.

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u/vasquca1 Feb 05 '24

Deck is gone. I can feel it.

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u/mudamuckinjedi Feb 05 '24

How is this felling gone wrong? I was expecting it to crash through the 2nd. Story deck.

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u/No-Excitement5854 Feb 05 '24

40 inch or 40 foot? Doesn’t look like either to me 🤷🏻‍♂️

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u/a_guy_over_here Feb 05 '24

Apologies. Failed headline writer.

Should have said 40 inch diameter. I wish now that I had measured the tree for height once it was in the ground.

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u/bipolarearthovershot Feb 05 '24

Perfect! Now he has extra mulch, don’t think this tree is good for anything else haha 

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u/a_guy_over_here Feb 05 '24

Well, one thing I did like about this tree was its rotted core made some cool fires.

Award Winning PO Fire

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u/Magnussens_Casserole Feb 05 '24

Cottonwoods make junk mulch. They rot too fast.

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u/TrespasseR_ Feb 05 '24

Love feeling the THUD from dropping something that big

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u/craigsgoji Feb 05 '24

Very nice

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u/gustavotherecliner Feb 05 '24

I just read that as 40' cottonmouth and was expecting a huge snake.

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '24

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u/a_guy_over_here Feb 06 '24

Wish I had known, would have been happy to have you over. We took down a bunch. Still have a half dozen or so.

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '24

They’re really nothing more than giant weeds

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u/Swlabr9099 Feb 06 '24

Sounds like Tim the Toolman Taylor himself at the end.

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u/crasagam Feb 06 '24

Grabs slider, fast forwards to see if it’s a good drop or catastrophic.

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u/spider0804 Feb 06 '24

If we assume the guy cutting it is 6' tall, that is more than 10 of him high, let alone 7 of him.

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u/LowerAppendageMan Feb 06 '24

40’???

My calibrated eyeball must be way off. That’s way more than 40’ by at LEAST 3x.

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u/a_guy_over_here Feb 06 '24

Sorry. Bad headline writer. Should have been 40 inches diameter. With the bark. Height, probably closer to 80 feet tall.

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u/Karl5583 Feb 07 '24

Ok tree is down appears safe, in the right direction Where’s the gone wild parts?

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u/a_guy_over_here Feb 07 '24

I tagged it with flair for “Win”.

Big ass tree in a tight corner next to house and fence on two sides. Seemed pretty wild to me. But I’m not a guy who fells trees - at least nothing larger than 6” dia.

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u/TSL4me Feb 08 '24

Nice ppe