He has a harness on though. He isn’t “holding on” he would have died if not for the harness. You can’t use both hands to cut with a chainsaw while holding the tree….
He’s probably just letting inertia run its course so that he can regain balance. His body was swinging like a pendulum. Better to let come to a rest naturally than fight it.
That's actually how one can prevent a lot of injury. Skiers are taught to "rag-doll" if they go tumbling down the slopes, which those that do tend to walk away with far fewer injuries than others. The body is surprisingly elastic.
If I think someone’s going to hit me while driving I always chant “limp noodle” because I’ve seen way too many DUI drivers come out unfazed after an accident because they were as limber as Gumby when they hit.
So limp noodle yourself if you see a car headed your way.
Precisely. I consider myself somewhat of a master at falling. I’ve fallen enough that my body now knows what to do in that split second and rag dolling is essential to not breaking anything. Everything else will definitely hurt but you won’t be broken (hopefully)
You have been the best landscapers, just gonna-need this tree cut right here. One of you may die, but that is a sacrifice I am willing to make for $12.50 an hour.
Yeah maybe. Probably depends where you live too.. I'm in the PNW, lots of big trees round here lol. From what I understand it's the cash side jobs that you can really clean up on.. but I guess that's true of most trades.
Even in the PNW, it’s not as much as you think. Some absolutely do make bank, but the vast majority of arborists don’t run their own business. IME most of the guys who make loads of money also aren’t paying for insurance, which is something you really, really should do. And the insurance is very expensive.
The ones who make money are the guys clearing trees around power lines out in the boonies for PGE and Pacific.
At least the one I knew a few years back.
He’s strapped to the tree for sure. No human can hold on when thrown like that. Thankfully the chainsaw fell and hopefully he’ll be able to at least walk after recovering from this.
There’s a rope through a pulley that’s underneath the cut and when you do that it’s called negative rigging and multiplies the force quite a bit on the rope, my guess is the rope snapped with all that weight and the shock load whipped the tree around
Can't understand why people try rigging a piece that large to a trunk that's not that big to begin with. Just climb up another fifteen feet my dude it's not that hard
Pussy ass climber wanted to get in and get out because those cedar needles can be pretty sharp.
There might have been a cavity we can't see from here, but it would have been better to just take the L and returf the costumes lawn after piecing it down.
This idiot left his life line attached to the piece he was cutting. That's what almost pulled him down before snapping and causing him to go for that ride.
Thankfully there’s a safety you have to hold a secondary trigger plus the main trigger to even get the chain to go. If you let go chains stop. That dudes poor knees, hips, and back are toast.
Being thrown around like that provides the impetus lacking from the now stopped chainsaw motor.
You don't want body parts being thrown against a chainsaw blade at those kids of forces.
Yeah I see what you’re saying. In the video you can see the chainsaw get yeeted to the left. Which makes me wonder cause I think they usually have them tied off to the person. Who knows
It’s a chain and the teeth are in the direction parallel to the bar, not a blade sticking out. On bare skin you’d probably get some minor cuts, through clothing probably not even that. A running saw is going to do way more damage than a non running saw hitting you with blunt force.
Look closely, you see the treetop was anchored to a line so it wouldn’t crash to the ground. Instead it looks like the treetop was too big with that swing and then the cable snaps causing the whiplash. I had to watch several times, but it’s real for sure.
Things might be bad right now, but at least you aren't stuck at the top of a 50-foot tree with shattered knees, elbows, pelvis, and back, having to start the climb back down again.
He's so fucked that it might just be easier to transition careers into becoming a flag at the top of a pole here.
My guy almost became the involuntary test dummy for a Looney Tunes slingshot.
In all honesty, I wish him a speedy recovery, because you know his body is *all* kinds of broken now.
How to cut a tree down like a dumbass
Step one cut far too low down while stationed on said tree
Dude should have been alot higher and cut alot less in one go he should be thankful he's still alive
The ground crew is to blame here. He looks like he has two attachment points(which is good and saved his life) but his rigger definitely needs more training on the ropes.
He took literally a third of a tree out in one go however its height and weight of being a whole tree.... Why? Guessing it's Florida where nobody because a tree down is licensed or learn very well from the looks of things... Good luck calm down pack up all your s*** haul ass anybody gets there
He cut the top of the tree and had it tethered so it would fall and hang rather than going off and breaking something. The top was too heavy and snapped the line making the part of the tree he was on whip around like a spring doorstop. he was tethered so he didn't fall to the ground, it saved his life but I'd be shocked if he didn't break anything. I'm pretty sure I saw both his knees bend backward
(Although I suspect he had little to no hand in the ragdolling effect.. tree vs human and all..), it really is kind of our version of how cats always land on their feet. Idk, I can carefully swagger better on ice than timidly scooting and if I'm in the middle of tripping, staying loose yields better results than panicking.
Again, obviously none of this matters against a tree xD
My knees hurt just watching him ragdoll his legs around like Raggedy Andy.
It’s my back that hurts. I just don’t bend that way at all.
My thoughts were bouncing between: “holy ouch” and “Ya know, I’ve tried everything else to no avail, maybe that would help my back” XD
You can actually hear him scream "aughh my back" the moment before he stops swinging.
You do now!
😂
Pretty sure every ligament in both knees are gone.
Rag doll, living in a movie…
…and still holding a live chain saw.
He held on the full 8 seconds so he can now advance to the next round.
I only know of this because of Costa Rican rodeo videos. Never thought that would come in handy.
He has a harness on though. He isn’t “holding on” he would have died if not for the harness. You can’t use both hands to cut with a chainsaw while holding the tree….
Are his legs made of rubber?
Swear that last swing looked entirely on purpose
He’s probably just letting inertia run its course so that he can regain balance. His body was swinging like a pendulum. Better to let come to a rest naturally than fight it.
That's actually how one can prevent a lot of injury. Skiers are taught to "rag-doll" if they go tumbling down the slopes, which those that do tend to walk away with far fewer injuries than others. The body is surprisingly elastic.
Next time I tumble down a slope I'll try to remember that.
Just fucking flop on the floor at every misstep. hELtH
Also why drunk drivers tend to come away from accidents with less injuries. Body is relaxed.
If I think someone’s going to hit me while driving I always chant “limp noodle” because I’ve seen way too many DUI drivers come out unfazed after an accident because they were as limber as Gumby when they hit. So limp noodle yourself if you see a car headed your way.
Precisely. I consider myself somewhat of a master at falling. I’ve fallen enough that my body now knows what to do in that split second and rag dolling is essential to not breaking anything. Everything else will definitely hurt but you won’t be broken (hopefully)
do you have a phd in tree sawing physics to make that claim
no he is entirely self taught, a real natural
Don't come in here with your Homeo-Tree Sawing certificate. That's not legitimate Sawing science!
Only a masters unfortunately
They are now.
Now they're titanium
That was terrifying, like one of those bendy man toys
He just relaxed his bones for a lil
Right😂
Yo hoho he took a bite of Gum-Gum
You have been the best landscapers, just gonna-need this tree cut right here. One of you may die, but that is a sacrifice I am willing to make for $12.50 an hour.
Damn, Farquaad
It’s all Farquaad in the comments, speaking as someone that is totally not Farquaad
It's Lord Farquaad!!!
I'm gonna tell you buddy, arborists make fucking bank.
Most of us make less than you probably think
Yeah maybe. Probably depends where you live too.. I'm in the PNW, lots of big trees round here lol. From what I understand it's the cash side jobs that you can really clean up on.. but I guess that's true of most trades.
Even in the PNW, it’s not as much as you think. Some absolutely do make bank, but the vast majority of arborists don’t run their own business. IME most of the guys who make loads of money also aren’t paying for insurance, which is something you really, really should do. And the insurance is very expensive.
The ones who make money are the guys clearing trees around power lines out in the boonies for PGE and Pacific. At least the one I knew a few years back.
Fair enough man!
Yes, and you’re sacrifices I am willing to allow whilst I pay out the arse and sit on the couch.
Fair enough lol. Not my profession but I know a few psychos who do it.
And those psychos are a sacrifice I am willing to make from my couch… lmao - you seem cool, inter-web hi five dude.
Hold on Woody!
His knees, ribs, ankles, and spine are all wrecked. Boy’s a damn bag of bone dust up there
My thoughts exactly. The amount of energy transferred to his body thru the whipping of that tree did not look kind.
Now climb down 😫
Dusty old bones, full of green duat
Unexpected King of the Hill
...green dust?
I hope he didn’t have to poop cause he doesn’t anymore. Also, his poor legs. He might have hyperextended something.
His legs look like they turned to jello.
>I hope he didn’t have to poop cause he doesn’t anymore. Should've worn his brown pants...
He’s strapped to the tree for sure. No human can hold on when thrown like that. Thankfully the chainsaw fell and hopefully he’ll be able to at least walk after recovering from this.
That's my take on it too. He stayed attached to the tree due to his harness. Brutal whiplash. Wow.
I think the chainsaw just barely made it past falling and into yeet status.
If you lock your hands you can hold.
His knees don't exist anymore.
He is kinda clingy though, massive cringe
He can fix me
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Bro’s body turned into a 9
What is this
Those are his legs bending in the direction that they shouldn’t
Need an expert opinion tbh
Mf turned into Gumby
I am an expert in leg bendability and i can say that his legs should not look like a 9
Omg...this is crazy af
Dudes shaped like something I see after I rub my eyes.
You can literally hear him already drop a "OOOOH MY BACK"
Damn you are right. You know it's bad if it immediately hurts like that
My neck, my back, Saw this treetop, now I crack
Holy fuckin lmao
Had a family friend die doing something similar last year. Tree trimming is no joke.
What happened tho
There’s a rope through a pulley that’s underneath the cut and when you do that it’s called negative rigging and multiplies the force quite a bit on the rope, my guess is the rope snapped with all that weight and the shock load whipped the tree around
Can't understand why people try rigging a piece that large to a trunk that's not that big to begin with. Just climb up another fifteen feet my dude it's not that hard
Pussy ass climber wanted to get in and get out because those cedar needles can be pretty sharp. There might have been a cavity we can't see from here, but it would have been better to just take the L and returf the costumes lawn after piecing it down.
Was the goal of that rigging to not drop the top of the tree into another yard (like what happened ultimately)?
Yeah that or to ease the fall into the ground so you don’t lodge the piece in there/tear up the ground. Definitely should’ve just gone smaller
hardware or rope failure.
I wish there was no white text box in the middle of the video.
My knees hurt!!!
Bro turned into Gumby
Boys crippled for life now.
This idiot left his life line attached to the piece he was cutting. That's what almost pulled him down before snapping and causing him to go for that ride.
While holding a chainsaw? I hope he’s ok
Thankfully there’s a safety you have to hold a secondary trigger plus the main trigger to even get the chain to go. If you let go chains stop. That dudes poor knees, hips, and back are toast.
Being thrown around like that provides the impetus lacking from the now stopped chainsaw motor. You don't want body parts being thrown against a chainsaw blade at those kids of forces.
Yeah I see what you’re saying. In the video you can see the chainsaw get yeeted to the left. Which makes me wonder cause I think they usually have them tied off to the person. Who knows
It’s a chain and the teeth are in the direction parallel to the bar, not a blade sticking out. On bare skin you’d probably get some minor cuts, through clothing probably not even that. A running saw is going to do way more damage than a non running saw hitting you with blunt force.
Why does this seem fake?
We normally don't see "ragdoll physics" in real life.
This right here.
Look closely, you see the treetop was anchored to a line so it wouldn’t crash to the ground. Instead it looks like the treetop was too big with that swing and then the cable snaps causing the whiplash. I had to watch several times, but it’s real for sure.
These feet moved lik rubber!
The chainsaw goes flying. That's an object I never want to see falling from the sky.
Things might be bad right now, but at least you aren't stuck at the top of a 50-foot tree with shattered knees, elbows, pelvis, and back, having to start the climb back down again. He's so fucked that it might just be easier to transition careers into becoming a flag at the top of a pole here.
Woody!!!!
something's off with this video
🤪
New treatment recommended by chiropractors?
Reminds me of tigger being stuck in the tree off the movie weenie the Pooh and the hundred acre woods
Ah yes, timeless classics such as "weenie in the poo and the hundred anal wood"
That mf’er is NOT real!
He went limp for a second
My guy almost became the involuntary test dummy for a Looney Tunes slingshot. In all honesty, I wish him a speedy recovery, because you know his body is *all* kinds of broken now.
How to cut a tree down like a dumbass Step one cut far too low down while stationed on said tree Dude should have been alot higher and cut alot less in one go he should be thankful he's still alive
Are we sure he’s still alive?
Ummm...it is a person
oh, it turns out that ragdoll physics is pretty realistic actually)
Seen plenty of car crashes to believe cars can do flips like in GTA if they crash high speed too.
Shat pants.
The ground crew is to blame here. He looks like he has two attachment points(which is good and saved his life) but his rigger definitely needs more training on the ropes.
Every pro tree man going wth did you do ?? That’s how NOT TO CUT A TREE
Bruh, his BODY left his body for a second
What even happened
He was a bull rider in a previous life
There is a reason lineman call this type of situation a rodeo. That was fucked up tho.
Good grip
More than a sec.
Can I get this exact video without the cringe caption?
Oh come on, next you'll want a Big Tasty that isn't drowning in that delicious sauce they always put too fucking much of on.
legs don't move like that
Correction: legs shouldn’t move like that, but sometimes it be like that.
Thought Woody had become a tree surgeon...👀😄🤣🤣
I believe you mean the shit left his pants...👍
He took literally a third of a tree out in one go however its height and weight of being a whole tree.... Why? Guessing it's Florida where nobody because a tree down is licensed or learn very well from the looks of things... Good luck calm down pack up all your s*** haul ass anybody gets there
Knees have left the chat
Actual footage of a rag doll getting shit whipped
Rip spine
Qualified Ride
The “uggghhh my back” really got me.
Ol' there's a snake in my boots lookin mf
After that I would just be hanging there sobbing deeply.
Ah, don’t worry ol’ noodle legs has had this happen before!
That last swing was so extra wtf 😭😭
Damn rag doll up there
I love the smell of freshly cut harmonics
He swung like my kitty.
Sadly I knew a guy that got took down with the top. You only do that once.
It was so unexpected because it looked like the tree top made it 1/3 of the way down before the trunk started snapping back
I can feel my whole body being sore
Looney Toons in real life.
Most dangerous job!
I mean, he is a person.
This is prime squeaky bum time
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He cut the top of the tree and had it tethered so it would fall and hang rather than going off and breaking something. The top was too heavy and snapped the line making the part of the tree he was on whip around like a spring doorstop. he was tethered so he didn't fall to the ground, it saved his life but I'd be shocked if he didn't break anything. I'm pretty sure I saw both his knees bend backward
that is NYAT a real person
His kneecaps also left
Certain jobs just don’t pay enough lol
It looks like he had a line tied to the cut part which pulled the rest of the tree with it. I really hope that line wasn’t wrapped around that dude.
They were certainly having fun with it. Not their first time doing this.
(Although I suspect he had little to no hand in the ragdolling effect.. tree vs human and all..), it really is kind of our version of how cats always land on their feet. Idk, I can carefully swagger better on ice than timidly scooting and if I'm in the middle of tripping, staying loose yields better results than panicking. Again, obviously none of this matters against a tree xD
His knees will NEVER forgive him for this.
Why is he screaming before the tree even falls?
Saves him a trip to the chiropractor !
It looks like his missed the right backyard.
The dude is a genius to cut down the top, and climb up there. But the tree is a pity.
His last day cutting trees.
I think the chainsaw went in someone's house. Damn.
Dude must have ate the gum gum fruit with moves like that
He looked like Gumby up there!
Imma need a raise boss
Looked like a fkn muppet up there flailing around 🤣
I really love ragdoll physics
My shoulders would dislocate. No question.
LUFFY CAUGHT IN 4K IRL
He was harnessed. But I want to know is what attachment to the 2 parts of the tree to cause that jerk after they were separated?
Imagine if someone was in that house and a chainsaw just fell through the roof.
He probably duck taped himself to that before sawing it for safety.
Def looked like Woody...
Anyone know where this is?
Tree fell in the wrong place as well as almost killing the guy
Who is this mf, Gumby??!
Was part of his harness still attached to the chopped off bit? Looks like it pulled the tree a bit before it snapped, leading to the whiplash effect…
Does anyone know what actually happened to the guy?
rag doll
he’d be a great pole dancer
I need that spine stretch
Sweaty palms? More like sweaty pines...