I Misjudged This Tree and FAILED… Learn To Avoid This COSTLY Mistake

First i thought maybe the house got scratched.. but thats no big fail i think..

one, you did not hit the house! two, a hitting wedges on the lean side of the tree, driving in with a axe would force the tree farther away from the house. more wood on the left/hinge would have helped and yes tractor angle would help. overall, i thought you did a good job. it is easy to pick apart a job after the fact. well done.

you could have used a plunge cut to avoid a barber chain from the lean. i am not sure if birch trees with their soft wood are prone to barber chair (apparently not).

as others have noted, a sizwheel cut with more holding/hinge wood on the side of the lean (in addition to a tractor) can help a leaning tree fall a little away from the lean. maybe wedges could have helped too with more hinge wood.

Treeclimbers should propose other solutions...
Best regards

That is a desirable fail, Thank GOD!

Oiskohan hain kita ollut tuossa paikallaan🤔

I am not a tree faller, but I do make a lot of wood bowls. To me, the rope you were using to pull the tree over were not high enough to get good leverage to make the tree fall where you wanted it to. Also, the wind probably blew it a little off course.

Mate all have failed doin tree work. Like that youre sharin it with others thanks finnish lumberman'

No shame using a thro ball get up more control. Thanks

Bit crack?

As they say over here more crack than harlem.

Wacthed now not enogh hinge. Thanx

Honesty is always best. I have sometimes altered the pull angle a couple of times before being satisfied. Even then … you are still at the mercy of internal tree decay, as seen here.

Honour to you for adding a fail. Those can be very instructive.

Still a great job 😊

dis finis inglis accent is fanni. gud ziob aniwai. tenks for shering

The error was just that the two spruce trees wasn't cut down first! No matter what the owner wished, those two ugly spruces whould have been cut down first!

Didn't hit the house, that's a win.

Those self locking carabiners are nice to use.

i thought the fail was that you tied the ladder to the trunk and it would break. :-)

With this kind of leaning, the result is more than nice, it's perfect !

I love your tutorials since I discover strong skills I didn't have before (I am an amateur, not a professional) !

I have 2 questions :
1. Is it possible that a shark gills would be better than a simple hinge in the present case ?
2. Was it possible to cut the 3rd stem as 1st or 2nd, using a rope to attach it to a remaining one in way to have a controlled rotation during the felling ?

The problem was you should have used Husqvarna saw😅

procedura errata , sfrondare il tronco e tagliare dall'alto in vari pezzi

The farmer should have had this tree cut down a long time ago.

They say that pride comes before a fall, so may all of your errors be as small as this, and for the human process of learning humility, may all of your triumphs be as great.

Aim more against it's lean and pull slightly more angle away as well. Birch is very strong and flexible

In Montana we use black powder and prayer.

You are lucky the tractor knew how to flor it. If he went slow, I think the tree would have gone perpendicular to the line when the hinge snapped and you would have clipped the corner of the house. Luckily he pulled it fast enough that the momentum carried it forwards and away form the house.

I never trust old birches with side lean, they can snap like glass. I learned it the hard way, it snapped a 10cm hinge post without much lean on it.

I was concerned when the one ladder was parallel to the tree and flush against it (when tying ropes). It looks dangerous for the climber to use a ladder like that.

My observation was that its unlikely you can pull a hard leaning tree back against its lean, better to have planned to drop it 90 deg from its lean pretty much where it fell, also a deeper notch so that the hinge is wider would give it better holding strength.

With a lean that bad, it's a major win that it didn't fall on the house. 👍😀

Well it didn't hit the house but I know the feeling of it not going where you wanted it to go. Call that a half fail, it's down and not on the house!

I have found that on a problem child like this, if you cut your hinge at an angle to the notch, rather than parallel to it, (basically, give yourself more wood on one side) the tree will pull toward the thicker side of the hinge. It's a tongue in cheek calculation, but it can help in a tricky situation.

Do you ever use throw lines to set the rope higher into the canopy? That felling tong system looks super useful, but I think having a bit more leverage up higher would have made a difference and you would not have to play around on latters. Great video!

Same thing happened to me once!
All os good because the tree did not damage anything either 🎉

The failure would be having the tree sit in the kitchen . nice job.

Szia! 2 méter átmérőjű nyárfa 3 ággal /60 cm/ 2db lejött simán az utolsó a vizes gödör felé dőlt mint itt is.Teljesen át kellett volna húzni a vágás irányon,minden éket megevett,az MTZ 82-es traktor olyan gödröket ásott,hogy a malac lefialt volna benne,egyszerűen nem bírta áthúzni.A vége az lett,hogy 1 óra szenvedés után a fa beledőlt a vizes gödörbe.Jó akkor szedjük ki,amire megtörtént a kerítés,a fólia romokban,valójában 5 perc alatt is bele vághattuk volna a vízbe,de így azért izgalmasabb volt.

Erros saem caros. Primeiro, deveria ter cortado todos os ramos do lado da casa

for my eyes - good working , the house is safe - specalist for sure

Thank you for sharing your experience from this difficult situation with the tree leaning towards the house. But in the end you could leave the house without damage, congratulations. As a warning for others, I highly appreciate your honesty showing that we are all humans and we can encounter situations, where we might overlook possible factors, even after many years of practical experience from felling trees. There are videos out there which ended with some serious damages.
Thumbs up for you and always stay safe.

Dear sir, this is not a fail. Other way was to climb it, but you felled it well! Say hi to MetsuriTrio for me!

Good evening, my friend. I'm speaking from Brazil. I would really like to have a CHAINSAW of this size, but I can't afford to buy one. Could you donate one of these, my friend? If you can't, God bless you. Big hug.

Not a fail, just a little off your mark. Felling is always with risk, you did a great job to minimize the hazards in a timely manor

I am a home owner and may try this technique to down a 15 ft. cedar out of control right beside the house. ;-) but seriously, very interesting to watch, still pretty good to me!! well done

It looked like it had more holding wood on right side, it followed the hinge at the start. Excellent work Sir.

You're too hard on yourself

You fail in every video ! Dummy !!

…. I’m in America and I’m an arborist. I do things a little differently…. First I climb up, take limbs and weight off in places that need to be taken off then I topp the trees taking big hunks of the canopy to reduce the chance of barber chair… I base tie an anchor to be pulled by a heavy machine or a truck or if not available I come along to a suitable place…. Only once I have positive control of the tree do I make my notch to ensure the safety of the house and my people at work…. Interesting technique, putting the rope in the tree. I’ve never seen that gives me so many ideas.! I’m glad no one was hurt. Thank you for posting the video.