Pulling Trees Down With Rope

Man, I can't emphasize enough how much I love it when You-tubers nerd out on a specific topic, most videos are pretty worthless, this guy is outstanding!

"Not only would we be out $12 we would have an angry pully coming back at us trying to get even." Excellent Terry! My style of presentation both as a student and as an instructor. Great video and far superior in the explanations than 95% of the other "instructional" videos around.

Finally a real engineer (vs a YouTube certified wannabe).. I was a chip designer. so not much trig and mechanical physics req'd for sub-micron wires & transistors... Besides, our "outdoor work" was camping, skiing, hiking, bicycling, snowmobiling, boating, etc., etc. My kudos to your excellent job with the video instruction Terry. By choice, I don't design chips anymore, but I've designed a few ad-hoc "systems" since, that always exceeded the clients expectations. Albeit you agree that the easiest way to get an engineer to do something they don’t really want to do was to tell them that it’s impossible or it cant be done!!! Continued success...

This is how my husband takes trees down and we love the after effect. No stumps to remove, just clean them off as the tree is down, and put the dirt right back into the holes the falling tree made. Really works well and not nearly as much handling of the tree. What a great video! Too bad most folks won't do it that way, from fear mostly, but lack of experience is also a factor too. Thanks for showing it, explaining it and sharing your knowledge.

Terry, it looks like sending private messages is no longer supported on YouTube, so here is a big public “thank you” for this video series! I have firewood for a long time but didn’t know what I didn’t know about felling until watching these. I watched the whole series on felling and went back multiple times to watch the segments on notch and hinge implementation and on how to compensate for lean. Today, I felled a 105-foot leaning ash that was near a house and surrounded by large red oaks that I didn’t want to damage. I anchored it with an appropriately strong line to another tree, tensioned the line with a heavy duty cable puller, used a vee notch, did a plunge cut to implement a hinge that was larger on the side away from the lean, trimmed out a trigger, wedged it up, and them released the trigger for a well-controlled fell that went exactly where I wanted it with zero drama. Your videos gave me everything I needed to do this confidently. Thank you!

Terry, thank you so much for your videos. Your knowledge of the technical aspects of tree work is amazing and I am very appreciative of you sharing your knowledge for free. I have learned alot thus far and will continue to learn more from your channel, thanks again!

Im 20 year's old been cutting trees with my father for 5 year's & we've always used theses techniques. Glad to see someone explaining this more in depth.

This is a great video...Thank you for taking the time not only to film it, but also to explain how and why it happens.You Sir, are a natural born teacher.

I have been doing this exact job for about half a century. I use a length of 1/4" steel cable and a small cable come along, side pull is only used if I need to steer the direction of fall. Works very well!

Made long time ago.. still useful today! I'm a whitewater rescue instructor and I was lazy about the math. You just saved me some time! Thank you for sharing

Great info presented in an enjoyable and professional manner!

Thank you. Your advice could save lives.

Fantastic bit of info and very interesting working out the physics of it all.

Thank you so much, I've learnt a lot of stuff I'd never realised I was ignorant about. Love the dead pan; "If this happens you will have an angry pulley coming at you trying to get even."

Wow truly the best felling tree instructions. Thank you sir!

the vid is terrific, and the Comments also add to the information. some folks like to quibble, and in that quibbling, some finer points are surfaced for everyone's benefit. well done.

Your explanations are appreciated very much. I have learned how to do many things safely, and decided what things NOT to attempt.

Amazing video! While some of this is far above me, we did learn a bit of it from Percy Bagby. He repairs and installs large diameter wire rope on chair lifts, gondolas and similar things. He told about the deflection of the wire, which he has to deal with concerning each gondola car, each chair lift chair, with their capacities, etc. He made it all seem so simple. So it gave me an appreciation for what you are saying here. I'm bookmarking this video so I can return for additional info now and then.

Dude Terry you really nailed this presentation. It's so mezmerizingly direct and well thought out it has a sort of majestic originality to it.

This is the pully tutorial i needed!! Thank you! This explains compound pullys so well!!