what do you yell before cutting a tree.

[cuttingman423]

Evidently my help doesn't say anything either, as he cut a tree(cedar) that the very top end hit the skid steer I was in. Needless to say I had something to say, but it wasn't timber, look out, or anything like that.

rule of 2 tree length distance is that the saw operators  that make sure no ones in that range or  the other guys on a crew that are operating equipment ? i'd think it is everyones responsibility

[Ron Scott]

Yes, everyone's responsibility. I'm approaching and walking around fallers on a regular basis and sometimes the two tree length rule needs to be extended depending upon the area and other potential hazard trees.

Don't enter a faller's safety zone until you visually see the tree being worked laid safely on the ground. 

[Corley5]

I always look the direction the tree is going to fall before I start the back cut and as it starts to fall.  There's not supposed to be anyone else in the woods where we're working and there usually isn't.  Yesterday a neighbor lady walked up on us to ask if we'd cut a tree by her house so she could get a new gas pig set.  Luckily I was just finishing bucking a tree not falling one.  We cut her tree today 

[Lurcherman]

The tree crew I worked with years ago would yell "headache air" anytime anything was cut out of the tree to warn the ground crew. I asked the guys why they called it that, and our forman said that the kind of air that causes headaches is the air around your head that also happens to have a moving piece of wood in it. So they want to let you know when it's coming.

It does sound logical, doesn't it?

[Phorester]

..."Due to the size of the timber it might take several hours to fell a tree......."

That rule holds for me right now.  Might also take an extra chain...., maybe another saw to get the first one unstuck....ax and wedges to drive in next to the first few wedges that didn't move the tree either......then there's bandaids to put on......., takes a long time to cut a tree.  By then I'm too tired to yell anything when it falls, even if it goes the wrong way.

[Tom]

Brother Dave's story

In the great N.West the loggers, armed with axes, chainsaws, trucks, cant hooks, chains, wedges, ropes and all manner of equipment were cutting trees.  One of the trees began to fall and the loggers hollered "timber!".

A little bird sitting in the tree next to it hollered, "Hom-me,  hom-m-me!!   'cause he didnt' know how to say timber.

[jokers]

How about "RUN!"? 

"Headache" seems to be common enough that I`ve heard it many places.

[maple flats]

I was not there to hear what he yelled, but a farmer neighbor dropped a large maple on his new tractor, splitting it in 2, I'll bet he yelled somethin like #%&$, or maybe just $$$$! Personally I yell nothing.

[Woodhog]

"More money lost!!!"

[rebocardo]

> But im surprised that no one yells anything especially when others are working nearby.

[rebocardo]

> But im surprised that no one yells anything especially when others are working nearby.

Usually someone 30-50 feet away can see you and hear your saw, anyone 100 feet away will probably not hear you yell anyways over two running chainsaws, or three since I usually have two running ones myself. Plus, many times after I have finished a notch, the back cut is done about 2-3 seconds later. It would take longer to put my saw down and cup my hands to yell, then the back cut.

I think timber goes back to when it use to take a few minutes to drop a tree with an axe and saw. I know it use to take me a good 1/2 hour for some trees. I dropped a 36" oak using a two man 72"? saw by myself in the backcut, I don't know how long it took, but I think the word forever applies 

If I was working in the woods with others, during that time it would be possible to have a lot of activity in the drop zone where people/animals might be skidding logs or other cutters were setting up a domino for the bigger tree to hit.

I doubt the old timers would have stopped all work in the area 2x the distance from the trees and would have only stopped once the backcut was almost done.

Be interesting to find out if/how old timers did it with axes.

Though in the back of my mind I hear "Danger Will Robsinson, Danger!"

[THPtech]

Heads!

x2

[Ed_K]

 I only yell when I have to go back and pound on the wedge, and its not nice. I'm with wood hog on this one.

[ID4ster]

The only time I ever say anything is if someone has gotten inside my two tree length zone. Then I say something that's not suitable for this forum especially if they've been warned to stay out of that area. If it's someone that is a total rookie in the woods like the bird watching ladies than they'll just get a no nonsense discussion of why they shouldn't be there. If no one is inside the zone though or when I'm working alone I don't say anything at all.