155 feet of Tree Topping AWESOMENESS! BIG Tall Cottonwood Removal with Inbred Jed at Gordy's House.

oh he's got dude he's got some huge trees back here and all the limbs have been cracked off by the wind it's literally just a stick with like you know it's so old i'm surprised how little rock there is in that one yeah it's narrow the canopy is really narrow it's like a fir tree [Laughter] it is yeah it is huge man it is a piece of broccoli it's just perspective right it looks like it's nine hundo we're having a work party day over here at gordy's place work party so pretty cool inbred jed came to help there's tree guy mike there's gordy and we're taking down this big fat cottonwood right here this thing is huge actually um the i'm doing this tree cause gordy gave me a gopro it said i could have his gopro if i just brushed this out for him so so we're here but this thing is really big me and jet are going to climb it together and i think it's going to be pretty awesome this thing's like 150 feet tall it's a huge huge cottonwood but uh it leans back let me put my coffee down hold on leans back really hard that way and we need to put it over there i don't know where he's going but um so we're gonna fall it towards that cedar we gotta brush it out because right now it'll just crus it'll just it's too tall to fit right there right now and it also leans back so we're just gonna go strip all the branches off no point in climbing past the branches or anything like that we'll just cut them all off we're just gonna let them all fall down here and just send the stick over there and it should be you know it's um it shouldn't be an hour and 45 minute long video it should be a little shorter and i think that it's gonna be really awesome they did this one a couple months ago look at this so this is a black cottonwood they did this a couple months ago and look it's already growing back these trees are just like weeds they're really not very great trees they're kind of stinky they're super messy the wood is brittle you can see like the branches they just the branches just soak up with water and they just shear off you know over time and um yeah black cottonwood really not a very good tree to have here's another one you see that one's got a bunch of decay in it i'm not sure oh and the other thing we can talk about a little bit while we're here too um and we'll you know we'll talk about it when we get down to it but you know following these co-dominant stems we'll talk about that a little i'll just drop my phone anyways we'll talk about that later we're gonna let's get we're gonna get geared up and i'm really excited to work with jed today um he came out here this is a saturday and yeah it's gonna be a ton of fun actually there's gonna be so much brush here i think i should take out my rope actually because i don't wanna i to film anything mean let me know oh okay um yeah i'm gonna take that out actually because i don't wanna this bag's gonna get buried with brush and i'll have to search for it forever yeah if you could just get some videos on your phone or some branches falling and then the big tops falling yep and just hold it sideways yep your phone this way yeah okay yeah maybe give the lens a little wipe make sure it's clean yeah that'd be some good good shots it's gonna be really cool with you guys both up there yeah it's gonna be fun i'm glad jed came you're gonna keep your uh rope on your hip yeah yeah that's probably a good idea how do you i just haven't really ever done it back in my saddle like i rig it up the rock climber away like that yeah and then i just go like this yeah i kind of feel like i should do that too because it's gonna be so much brush dude our ropes aren't long enough like we'll be like coming down huh we'll be like coming down halfway to get fuel on our ropes we'll be all right dude we won't need fuel uh i don't wanna i'm just gonna bury it i'm just gonna hope for the best [Applause] yeah you know big tree like this i'm actually tempted to take a little bigger saw like maybe a 261 or something it'll be easier to cut the big leaders off and then i can take logs and stuff um and i'll have more gas but you know it's amazing these top handles if i take a rear handle like that's a 35 cc top handle if i take like a 50cc rear handle up there with me because it's so much awkward more awkward and longer trying to position i'll be like twice as tired than if i use this when this has a 14 inch bar i used to have a 16 for many years and then try to 14 then try to 12. i thought that was a little too short i like 14 inches best i can still cut really large wood and that two inches off the tip really reduces a lot of weight more than you i think if this will even go around [Music] almost oh maybe just barely the blind's really not long enough to do that practically so i have to use my climbing line for this bottom portion [Music] you done yet jacob [Laughter] i'm tempted to just like scramble up there but i don't know if i'll be like hang on while i i know i fished through that crotch flip line wasn't doing it monumental big dude oh wow you want me to just like choke your line off to that back one when i get up there would that be helpful or do you want me to run it through a crotch or something dude i'll just go up there the same way you are i got a big giant flip line i don't need any help like jacob you do yeah i'm going up first there you go yeah that way jake's gotta cut all the suckers off for me i can't even use my flip line on this thing i use my climb line it's a big fat tree man pretty good size gonna cut some suckers [Music] wow [Music] and watching the big shot up here might have been a better bet that was a pain in the butt just getting up to here it's so much easier to flip these steel core flip lines and using my climbing line for this now that i'm up here in a smaller diameter it'll be way easier hey gordy i forgot to bring a big rope did you yeah do you got any you got any rope uh i'll check the mic i don't have anything really long me neither hey jed you want me to like you sure you don't want me to get like a crotch for you or something are you just going for it it's gonna go the same way you are you go up that one i'll go up the other one okay that sounds good yeah yeah i'm gonna cut but i'm not following anything on that side wow [Music] [Applause] this thing's a pig nice job man uh you don't have a rope mic maybe my wife can bring one honey honey i forgot the rope can you bring it tree guys you think mike lawyers don't even have rope loggers don't need rope we just follow the tree and be done with it move on yeah yeah look who's on the ground and look who's doing all the work you want me to start cutting now i can do her i'm going to wait till you get way up there first [Laughter] you think i'm f you think i'm joking [Music] [Applause] [Music] wow wow [Music] [Music] wow [Music] [Music] looks like mike's doing something [Music] i think i might be tangled up this is a cottonwoods right wow such a pig dude it's huge uh thanks mike let's see if they're texting me back yeah gordy my wife's gonna bring a rope i live pretty close yeah sorry jelly looks like you got your side is more suckery than you got that side wait i have 12 more suckers not fair that's why you're winning dude [Music] now we're getting to the big branches man look at this thing [Music] [Music] wow oh man i think i got it thanks mike that's the second time i got in my rope but my rope's almost off the ground [Music] [Music] hey dad do your favorite [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] uh and you never get to just drop lips like that which i never get to never get to you're always broken them off yeah dude do you think you think this limb will hit that can i'm being crazy it's not going to go to that container i figure you have 60 feet to the container if the wind is not 60 feet it's therefore impossible for it to hit it right yeah you're right yeah here's a big one [Music] [Applause] [Music] i'm gonna cut this one [Music] [Music] i would see i could cut that little one there you could let your top go there yeah no i can go well how close does gordy need it i don't think he cares i mean that that's like 35 feet right there so tall like if it hits right there we can rig it out of the ditch of course we can yeah i don't think he cares you want a big you know bigger son i could just whittle it off i could just take this go up there whittle some face guys this is a good height to tie it off to fell it you think so we got we could tie it halfway down there we'd be fine look how thick this moss is i know this is an old cottonwood yeah old weed um uh i don't know i kind of like a little you want to try that 400 my rope my rope's long enough dude i can transport the saw we could just share it exactly oh you okay oh yeah yeah we could just hey hey gordy is my rope still on the ground yep hey can i can we get that uh 400 you got a bar on it oh you you got a big saw we can use 500 jake that 500 with the max level here okay yeah you want to give me your saw jet and i'll just lower them both down yeah um let me let go this limb oh yeah i better do this one yeah i'll just lower both ours down then we could just share the big saw you think that's good is that when madison supported that 500. it is and it's uh i think the maxwell primarily helps with filtration i don't notice a performance gain yeah but sure is nice i'll lower it down in a second hey do you want to just take a couple steps back in case i drop a chainsaw thank you okay got it is that that uh that pelican rope it is davin's robe oh yeah i think that's the pelican rope is that from australia it's uh from california it's from a pelican rope they're they've been around a long time i guess i don't know they don't have as much of a market share i guess in the arbor culture where world they're just getting into the arbor culture so it's probably a nautical yeah exactly yeah all right yeah we're just gonna share it we're going to top it here it's hot dude barely long enough so mine's 120 feet long whoa and mine's at the ground right here so this is 120 where we're at wow that's a long way down dude hands are getting hot okay thank you this is a beautiful place oh man this is a long way at all this thing is this is a gun it's like a marathon dude i used to only climb on 300 feet it's like the only rope i used oh my gosh and it was nice because i didn't have to do this but i really like the short ropes the longer i do this it just gets tangled so much less it looks cool with this filter on yeah that's the important part exactly you like this chain sequence full comp 28 not necessarily dude i just can't i can't get that saw right i can i can get it to cut fairly well but i cannot get that right dude you know what's really nice about this saw though light it's light man you can uh yeah you can run i think it's like the best option for like you can just put a 25-inch bar or a 36-inch bar on here yeah and it's the same power head but it'll pull both you know dude for the general tree services yeah mods nothing that's all you would want man right yeah just run a short bar for short for small trees big one for big trees yeah it's a good saw it that way i will what about me it'll be fine okay now because this tree is leaning like this there is a chance that this thing can split as i'm cutting it but i don't really need to i've got it choked off here i don't need to worry about too much because it's not going to split past this big knuckle which is what my flip line's on so i mean i'm always a little nervous cutting these cottonwoods they're really weak-wooded but it's just a nice that i'm standing up this is a nice spot because i got a huge wood to stand on but i got smaller wood to cut here oh jed man did you do me a huge favor and just yeah man just hold the phone it's already recording okay depending what looks better touch the screen like a dummy well you see this right here depending what looks better you can zoom in oh right by grabbing that thing okay don't touch the red button no i shan't and the sun of course oh that's all right make sure this is going to get the glory shot okay that's it okay wow [Music] [Music] um [Applause] wow never gets old dude it's moving so much dude thanks you need the sauna thank right on you pile yeah a logger couldn't do that dude how is this gonna hold how's that little thing it's strong right it's strong okay it's like good for like 1200 pounds can't it open and dump your five hundo on the ground i frankly i don't like i don't like it it's just what i yeah jake if i head this out that way there's no way that you can get it no way right i don't know what about the branches are they going to touch me oh yeah you're right dude maybe i should just absolutely can you just srt and go in my tree yeah hey can you just clip my line to your tree this would be such a cool angle to film you at but you're too scared you want me to sense you off at dude anywhere is fine i'm just going to be kind of underneath you you know slap me out a little bit more a little more good yeah i shall put you right here oops you want your thing over here man like yeah dude that's fine that's fine i'm just gonna you are mostly safe okay safe enough don't move too much it's all good that'd be a bad cut yeah right now just don't move anything for the i could move anything for the footage they're out of your skin dude yeah dude okay let's get good sharp cutting instruments i look like a homeless guy with this huh see i don't like this because you can't grab them well yeah sailor's over there and i'm on jet side you know it's actually safer for me to be on this stick than that stick because over there he could potentially hit me with a branch or something if i just stand right underneath wow [Laughter] it's moving everywhere oh my gosh nice job jed i almost should have had a wedge in there dude nice thank you sir dude that moved so much when you cut it it was awesome dude my flip line's still moving i'm gonna swing back over could you unclip my line when i get on that stick yeah if you'd please unclip that i'd be what's that you want me to take a log off okay you want a wedge you want wedges get it to go the right way i might yeah i think jed would need wedges i think mine might go that way i can take one but jetted probably need wedges i got a shorty axe and wedges on a carabiner in the trunk of my car thanks mike this is like the perfect day man i the weather is people use this word too frequently but it's idyllic it really is it's like you're dreaming dude i'm so glad you came man it is just fun dude who would miss can you believe we get paid to do this a lot of times i'm doing this tree uh for gordy's gopro said he'd give me his gopro if i did this where do you think i should take it probably a bit lower huh i think oh yeah go down play a lot lower that's good six eight feet yeah yep [Laughter] here what do you think about right here jed is that good i think i should take it yes perfect probably perfect okay hmm not bad i poked a little yeah but i got so lucky with my face cut dude you absolutely drilled that it was a good cut thanks man okay here your turn i'll give you the saw this thank you which way you you going just gonna ship it out towards the container my brush over there okay uh but i gotta go up eight feet what floor to get her to flip right because mine's longer than yours mine's already eight feet long oh right right so i'll have a similar poke wow dude we put a hole um maybe i'll go up a little bit higher okay just get it to rotate okay but you're gonna be fine [Music] hmm you think i'm good here hey jed you're good oh yeah dude nice shot man it's so flat yeah that was awesome man fun are we short enough got her well dude i think a tara will be here pretty soon man yeah i'll chill um okay awesome job jed you too is super fun there's your top there can i go around and clean all this up there's this rope in there i don't think you're gonna hit our rope so it's just our tails are like on the ground yeah we need to get all those out of the way all clean along there he's just going to sit and wait for your wife or what yeah she should be on her way muck all this out so i can get cut okay yeah so my wife's bringing a rigging line so we can pull it over so judd's just hanging out up there you know everybody's got different risk tolerances you know he'll cut a v like the old school way in the top and then he'll double rope down i don't like to do it that way it's a lot of friction and i'm always scared of my rope coming out so i'll just single line you know you'll also notice like he he doesn't double tie in quite as often you know as i do i like to double tie in when i'm doing big cuts but you know every climber's got different risk tolerances you know and just got more of a old school style than i do it looks like he's sending that down i might need to go help him but yeah really really talented guy [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] how long you been running machines for 25 plus years right we like better running machines or cutting trees i guess let me ask you guys man let me ask you this what's your favorite thing that you do what's your favorite part of your job i like inventing stuff for sure working on new projects testing them spun too yeah gordy's an incredible guy he'll just go out cut some timber and think oh i wish the saw did this a little differently and then he'll just invent something hey hey having fun yeah yeah you see jed you see jed up there yeah yeah i just came down shining in the sun huh i i drove in and i was looking around everywhere for uh like you in a tree and then i saw jed's helmet yeah you don't need shoes yeah isn't that cool yeah stay here okay don't move i'll be right back hey i'm gonna tie this rope on [Applause] okay [Applause] [Music] [Music] uh the hard part's done she's all yours come in and take all the take all the that's all right what's your plan gordy what's your plan here oh i want to face it this way because of the school marm we can't go down the field with it because we'd be undercutting this one this one would be completely already cut and i don't want to cut it first because then it'll go towards the shop yeah so he's saying you got this included bark right here so this is actually two trees trunks fused together that's what that big bulbous piece of there's a seam all the way here and you don't want to under cut our seam so i want to cut both trees at once so i'm gonna have to go this way with it the tree was originally leaning that way but i want it to go that way we'll just put mike on the excavator and make sure that's going down the field cool yeah you can uh you know when you've got the double trunks you can basically fall this way or that way but when you try if you try following it this way what you do when you cut into this one is this whole thing can just break and split because that wood's way weaker than you think on the inside so that's what he means by undermining it you know if he cuts in deep on the side what's gonna happen is this is gonna peel out and this one's still gonna be standing it's gonna go the wrong way so only option is drop it this way or that way let it rip my old 66 first saw i ever built still running what kind of bar you got how long is the bar 42 inch cannon face right [Music] hey make a man oh they're always dying oh oh yeah it doesn't look too bad it's not even that rot it's just there's so much water a bark seam all the way up is there a bark scene yeah it must be where all that water it's got to be i'll probably take another swipe at her and go further back what do you think mike well get past that seam right here yeah i would i would too because right now you're only in this front log yeah i need to go back further it's hard to tell with all the butts well oh ah that's a good cut there now you got the oil let me put some tension on it it's a nice nice cut man [Music] it's a good idea those gatorade bottles and they weren't good i just got the little one for the oil and the big one for the gas let's hang those right from the back of your rig that's a good idea three tanks full in there there's about a tank and a half taking it now yeah so when i'm cutting i like to leave my gas can here work my way all the way down let the saw run out and then fill up with my piggies work my way all the way back to my can and refill both the saw and then oh yeah works good yeah it's all coming around the back here jet i'm gonna leave five inches of holding wood probably yeah like your friend said that's it's cottonwood so yeah just line me up here we'll let her buck yeah yeah so the the bar is not quite as long as the tree so he's gonna cut this side first you want him on that and then once this side's all cut up then he's gonna finish on this side because that way he can more easily escape up the hill you know if you're standing down the hill you might stumble and fall and the tree always wants to roll downhill start backing up cut the downhill side first then cut the uphill slide so you can get away um didn't you make this belt up yourself i copied this actual timber faller dude up in canada bjarny butler and he just well he knows how to weld better but i oh i just you just put that little piece of rebar on there that's a hook he he welds like a loop around his yeah his belt i couldn't figure it out so i rednecked it that's pretty cool it's um it's just so fast and it's like if you drop your axe in the in the bush you know it's me i'm like looking around and it's just right there it'll be fine in and out um i'll just show gordy that he should just invent oh gordy will have it yeah first should just invent it but you know this gives you a long handle if you're a skinny guy like me like those big guys they can do those stubby handles in a five pounder man that thing swings me more than i swing it so i use like a skinny long handle yeah so we can build speed yeah yeah yeah it's nice it's a nice trick i i thought it was smart of course the longer handle hangs up in the brush a little bit he just throws his around you know treat a tree yeah but then when he's working he's got it there it's really clever um wow [Music] ah hmm [Music] i'm gonna have to walk that's good come on nice cut nice job good cut pretty big log i'm six foot in boots and boots yeah dripping wet you're literally dripping wet off this pig well we didn't wipe out any good trees at least no that was a good show shake that thing hit i did big jacob look at that man i don't wonder if you can hear it the gurgling okay oh that's it yeah i wonder if i can try to get the gurgle and sound it we're sorry kid you hear those this wood is so soaked i could have squared up the other side it's really not that much of a bark seam in there oh yeah you see okay so see right here you see this line right here this is what we were talking about how gordy didn't want to face it up yup sideways right here because it's two tree it looks like one tree but it's really two the wood's sort of fused together on the ends here but you know if he would have cut in right here from the outside it looks like he's halfway through the tree but really he's all the way through this section of the tree and it cripples crumbles hits his shed and so that's why he faced it right there perpendicular to this crack so that it's basically you're following these two stems as individuals at the same time rather than undermining one side really easy mistake to make because most people just don't you wouldn't know you know if you were just an average joe and you looked at a tree with multiple stems you wouldn't you wouldn't know that so a lot of people they cut the tree and all of a sudden it pinches their bar they don't know what's going on a lot of times it's because of this you think it's one solid piece of wood and it's not i would have bet you know a million dollars that this was in here i actually would have assumed it was larger though but uh yeah and that's what was holding all that water remember when he hit this point you saw that all that water gushing out that's because this is basically just a big straw holding the water you know i mean you can see right here it goes up and you can see right here there's a good example so when the tree started out it was small right and you've got these two very distinct trunks next to each other and as they grow they smush together and they put on wood on the outside in both directions but they never really quite fuse together it's always a weak spot that wood is so wet that's crazy look at that and then you get all sorts of decay look at this it's like mud in there it's a really good cut nice job gordy thank you you want a picture i'll try my best to make you look good but i you know technologies technology only does so much you know job gordy better off on your uh nice job mike you too better off nice job on the winch well i'm just about to stop the video thanks so much for coming out jed yeah really good job man yeah i really really enjoy working with you super fun cool all right well that tree's done that's it for this episode don't forget to like and subscribe if you want to support uh this show this is all i'm doing now full time trying to make videos if you want to support it the best thing you can do is go to patreon and you know sign up for that you can help me through that platform that's really the best way if you'd be so kind i'd appreciate it but really just just liking and subscribing is good too you know i just appreciate your time

Channel: Guilty of Treeson

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Keywords: guilty of treeson, inbred jed, tree removal, tree topping, west coast saw, west coast, chainsaw, logger, logging, tree climbing, climbing, construction, demolition, idiots with chainsaws, tree cutting, wood, wood working, wood turning, chainsaw carving, stihl, husqvarna, tree felling, jed walters, Jacob rogers, Jake rogers, extreme, sharp chainsaw, how to cut down a tree, landscaping, forestry, cottonwood, trees, huge tree, big trees, biggest tree, axe, manly stuff, trucks, firewood, mill

Id: IFhB-nqhd4s

Length: 54min 29sec (3269 seconds)

Published: Fri Oct 08 2021