scary tree cutting situations

[zackman1801]

around here a few guys have actually dropped some trees on the lines, when the investigator comes he has always said, it was a tree right? they say yes and he says thats all i want to know, i dont care how it got there as long as it was a tree. and they usually come and pick things up. but i wouldn't try doing it twice. 

[Polly]

i was cutting asmall tree leaning at least 45 deg it was lodged in another tree tree might have 6in in dia i cut it off the but of the tree went up in the air about 15 ft and came back down taking my glove off my hand bending the bar on top my saw and then settled on the ground  i figure i must have made the tree made and it was getting even

[tyb525]

One time I was cutting a tulip tree, about 10" diameter, to make log seats out of. I had cut the notch almost perfectly, then made the back-cut. It didn't move for a few seconds, and when it did, it started falling the opposite way I wanted it to! It hung up in a big hickory. I didn't know a good thing to do at the time, so I just left it. After about a month, a big wind storm came up. After that, I went out in the woods, and saw that the tree had been blown out of the hickory, and was laying exactly where I had originally wanted it to fall!

It may not seem like much, but boy a tall tulip falling the wrong way was a scary sight!

[zackman1801]

one day not too long ago while i was cutting an EXTREMELY dead tree, i had notched it, and started my back cut. i then made sure i was well out of the way while i finished my cut, as soon as i pulled my saw out i heard the holding wood give up and the tree went exactly the wrong way i wanted it to fall. i half expected it might so i was sure to be away from it while it happened. im just glad the tree was small, dead, and not very tall. it was only about 8" DBH and 50 feet tall, if it had hit me im sure i would have been unhappy but deffinatly not dead. thank god.

[Kevin]

Trees go the wrong way at times for different reasons.
What's important is knowing why it went the wrong way to help prevent it from happening again.

[jokers]

im just glad the tree was small, dead, and not very tall. it was only about 8" DBH and 50 feet tall, if it had hit me im sure i would have been unhappy but deffinatly not dead. thank god.

I lost a good friend just before Christmas `06, got hit in the back of the head by a falling limb roughly 3 1/2" diameter by 12 feet long, you might want to rethink the possible outcome Zack.

[tyb525]

I once read about a cyclist that was killed by a small branch that fell while they were riding down the street.

[Tom]

We had a couple of cyclist killed early one morning a few years ago.  They were drunk, racing down a 4 lane business street at over 100 mph at about 2am and T-boned a car.  Yessir, those motorcycles are dangerous. 

[PineNut]

I have seen many of those not very large limbs that fell off a tree and went 6 inches or more in the ground. I can just imagine what they would do if they hit someone.

[jokers]

We had a couple of cyclist killed early one morning a few years ago.  They were drunk, racing down a 4 lane business street at over 100 mph at about 2am and T-boned a car.  Yessir, those motorcycles are dangerous. 

An argument in support of Darwinism. It seems that many of those wishing to skim themselves out of the genepool are drawn to riding motorcycles extremely fast on public roads.

[kb]

last week I was bucking a 20 in oak limb that was wedged against the trunk and extending out about 16 feet.  the limb was support in two places off of the ground about 3feet.  I was trying to buck it into pieces and was cutting just past a branch in the middle that was holding it up.  I didn't want to cut on one side or the other of the limb since it really didn't have a clear prediction of which way it would roll.  So... smart me, I am on top of the limb, that I thought was well supported by the trunk and the branch that was sunk into the ground.  I knew I was in trouble when I felt the trunk spin.  Luckily it jammed up the saw, then twisted again and threw the saw about 10 feet.  I got thrown the other way and landed on my back.  It may have been a stupid place to stand, but considering when the dust settled, the sections had ended upsetting right where I would have been standing if I had cut it on the ground, I'm pretty thankful.  I made a few more cuts just to get everything flat on the ground then packed up to go find some AC and a giant tylenol...