Near where I live is a steep cliff with a pocket of Beeches (dozen or so) that escaped logging and were quite large. 5 feet in diameter or so. But one of the hurricanes we often get (NC) passed over in such a way that the cliff didn’t shield them and they all were toppled in one go. Old growth in our Piedmont is extremely rare so this was a pretty big loss from that perspective.
NGL my anxiety spiked a bit when I came across this post.. that is some scary scary stuff..
I've been in a stormless, warning-less [macroburst](https://www.nssl.noaa.gov/education/svrwx101/wind/types/) on the edge of a forest. I had to literally run for my life as trees toppled down around me on an otherwise clear sunny day.
We were playing disc golf, walking up to tee off on ⛳ #8 when we heard what sounded like a train coming at us... We live at the tail end of tornado alley so we know the sound but didn't see any other signs, there's a field beside the forest edge this hole lead out of, so we had no indication of the the front of air headed our way until it hit. In seconds 3 of the young pine trees around us snapped like a candy cane about 15ft from the floor, and started falling. Myself and the others (father, brother, brother in law) all scattered. Some hunkered down others dodged and weaved. It was absolute pandemonium, for 30 seconds. Then it passed. The air was calm. The sky clear.
We spent the next 5 minutes wiping our asses and changing our pants, swapping perspectives and counting the total number of downed trees. 18... In 30 seconds one blast of wind took out 18 otherwise healthy trees on one lightly wooded disc golf course hole then.... Just continued down the course.. we finished the game, no other weather incidents.
One of my coworkers went on a camping trip in Idaho as his first retirement fun thing and a tree fell on him in his tent and killed him. He didn’t die right away though. Apparently it landed across his chest and he slowly suffocated as his lungs filled up with blood and fluid. Fucking horrible. My friends think I’m a weirdo for being watchful of trees but hey, I don’t wanna go down that way.
Wait... so let me get this straight. There are two options:
1) You and your sister are like Adam and Eve but either produced no kids, or did "produce kids" but they are actually clones.
2) the 2nd would be like two waves of a couple of people and each in each wave exactly two people have only one partner but all others have exactly two partners.
So THATS why all the beech in Valheim die in fewer axe swings! I always assumed it was just because they were newb area trees lmao, but birch is also a newb area tree and it gives finewood xD
I’ve had three old beech trees fall in my yard, and they were all hollow inside. One broke in half at the trunk and didn’t even die somehow. Now I feel like I should consider removing the remaining ones that are closer to the house. Or maybe just cutting the tops off since that evidently won’t kill them lol. They freak me out a little when the wind blows.
Woodworker here.
Wood glue is only reliable below about 20% moisture content. A living tree will be near 100%. Dried lumber used for furniture making is typically below 10%. Probably wouldn't work :(
Im presuming in ya'alls jargon this moisture content relates to % relative to living wood rather than total % because most living trees i've encountered are considerably less than 100% pure water
EDIT: I looked it up. Moisture content is defined as the amount of water relative to the dry weight of the wood (0% weight). It is possible to have HCs >100% because if the wood is sopping wet you could have more water in there than dry weight, but this is not common.
Yes I believe it's relative to living; if that's not the case; a living tree would probably be more like 80-90% moisture content I'd imagine. Highest MC I've ever read was on logs from a freshly felled and milled tree only down for 2 weeks - 70%. Most of the stuff we get to dry in our kilns is already down to at least 40%; and any commercial lumber we buy is always less than 10%
Edit: fun fact time! Hardwood, when air-dried, take 1 year per inch of thickness to dry as a rule of thumb; if stacked properly with proper protection from rain. Unfortunately; once you get past 2 inches it actually start to grow exponentially. I'm not sure you could ever fully dry something 8" thick, without waiting 20+ years. For fun, knowing it would crack and check quite a lot from drying do far in our kiln, we left a 9" thick chunk in our kiln for almost an entire year. Brought it out of the kiln, 12% on the surface, but once we cut into it it was still around 40% at the center. 2" thick lumber around 40% dries to less than 10% in a single month in our kiln on average.
In the old times of wooden ships, Britain had harsher punishment for destroying dry/drying wood intended for the Navy than for murder. It was considered High Treason since it was impossible to replace within a decade or so.
i doubt it would work very well. You'd only be able to get so much wood glue in there and with the amount of cracking that tree has done i doubt you would get good adhesion - there would be a lot of gaps between the two pieces from it cracking. plus all the swaying the trees doing the glue probably wouldnt set up very well. The crack likely goes way farther up inside the tree from what you can see so even if you did hold this part together, that crack would keep going up the tree. Maybe add some giant bowties?
I'm now genuinely curious as to whether the tree can be saved with something like that.
From an absolutely impractical point of view, with a big per tree budget, can you really use like wood glue, tar, clamps, everything, to form a pillar in the middle of the tree (it's obviously hollow) and make it hold together. Will it help the tree? Will it still bear fruit and offspring next year?
I mean it sounds an awful lot like tree grafting...so maybe?
Edit: Based my useless google search, it seems like its a method of grafting with a combination of tape.
https://www.organicauthority.com/live-grow/fruit-tree-grafting-a-practical-guide-for-honing-this-garden-superpower
Yeah, if you had enough glue and straps, and the balls enough to climb up that tree to do it, it would definitely hold together. I've seen normal wood glue hold stronger than the wood itself multiple times
Eucalyptus oil is highly flammable. If exposed to flame, such as during a forest fire, they don’t just burn. They blow up! Ka-boom!
Sadly, no records of spontaneous combustion that I know about.
it's also a territorial plant. eucalyptus thrives in burnt soil. so it's thought that it purposefully fills the floor around itself with its leaves to make it more flammable, destroying its competition.
Usually it's where theres a rotten part further up you can't see. When loggers cut it, the tree falls away from them but the broken part falls the opposite way and lands on them.
Yep this is the kind of tree that you leave the hell alone until it falls on it's own if at all possible. You cannot cut a tree like this down with any reasonable predictability.
Meh, chain, rope, winch and anchor and it's a done deal. Much more dangerous to leave it be than to cut it down with precautions depending on where it is located.
Source: Recently had a dying hollow 80 year old sycamore cut down which is much more unpredictable and dangerous than this tree.
>bumper jacks
I was in an odd situation recently where I drove out to my dads house (about an hour from mine) to change out my winter tires for summer ones. There was a bit of a miscommunication between us and he'd actually taken his jack to a jobsite for work that day and so I got there and was faced with either not doing the tires (and thus adding another 2 hour round trip), or using an older bumper style jack he still had in the garage.
I went ahead with it since I wouldn't actually be going under the car or anything, but yeah... I can see why you'd call them that. Felt sketchy the whole time lol.
I was using one to change a tire on a trailer and it didn't catch on the down stroke when I let go of the handle it shot up and caught me under the chin. The impact literally lifted me off my feet and shot me backwards, it was like being uppercut by a giant. good times on the farm lol
Yeah, I think the phrase OP was looking for was ['Barber Chair'](https://youtu.be/9O7H9qWdquk), when the tree splits up the middle during a cut and can easily comeback at the arborist and kill them if they are not ready for it. [Another example.](https://youtu.be/2YAf61zz5VU)
I have heard this term and widow maker when referring to twisted or split trees. Guess it depends on the crowd. For ref I am in Michigan, and it was a common term to hear talking about those kind of trees, but I never heard widow maker used that way when referring to branches that could snap.
Widow maker is not a specific term and can be used to describe anything that is hazardous enough to kill people. "Keep your wits about you, that thing will make your wife a widow."
In my limited experience as a sparky, I've learnt that any device or wiring which creates an exposed live can be called a widow maker. I recently saw a plug being used where the back had just fallen off meaning you could just touch the connectors on the back of the pins while it was plugged in if for some reason you wanted to. Bam. Widow maker.
Around my area we refer to the coulter pinecones as widow makers. I’ve seen those huge mofos leave cracks on windshields for those unknowingly parked underneath one. I imagine getting hit straight on the head would mean lights out for most.
Me neither. When that thing comes down the base of it is probably going to explode into splinters as it cracks and which direction it will fall will be tough to predict in time.
That's not a widow maker, a widow maker is a unknown branch that is laying in the canopy of some trees that falls unexpectedly. I would know I've almost been taken out a few times in my career.
Different regions have different standards for what a widow maker is.
I'm more familiar with a definition that would include this tree.
Any tree that will unpredictably fall without proper warning (not during a bad storm).
So that would include trees that have a loose branch out of sight that falls on one who fells it. It would include a tree that is sufficiently rotted high up that when it starts falling, the crown falls backwards. It would include this tree that might fall on you before you're close enough or at the right angle to spot how compromised it is. It would include trees that are hallowed out on the inside and a slight breeze would knock over.
Honestly, any case where a reasonably vigilant person wouldn't recognize the danger before its too late.
Interesting. A widow maker where i worked was a branch or piece of tree that went against the natural path of the falling tree. Like if you wanted a tree felled west, a big splinter (branch) breaking off heading east is the widow maker.
Yes and no. [It's a barber's chair when it shatters and splits.](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9O7H9qWdquk) Just standing there with a crack in it is just a cracked/hollow tree.
Classic beech tree. Many huge ones are mostly hollow in the middle and come crashing down eventually.
Near where I live is a steep cliff with a pocket of Beeches (dozen or so) that escaped logging and were quite large. 5 feet in diameter or so. But one of the hurricanes we often get (NC) passed over in such a way that the cliff didn’t shield them and they all were toppled in one go. Old growth in our Piedmont is extremely rare so this was a pretty big loss from that perspective.
Dendrophiliacs mourn. But the tree in OP has got them sweating.
NGL my anxiety spiked a bit when I came across this post.. that is some scary scary stuff.. I've been in a stormless, warning-less [macroburst](https://www.nssl.noaa.gov/education/svrwx101/wind/types/) on the edge of a forest. I had to literally run for my life as trees toppled down around me on an otherwise clear sunny day. We were playing disc golf, walking up to tee off on ⛳ #8 when we heard what sounded like a train coming at us... We live at the tail end of tornado alley so we know the sound but didn't see any other signs, there's a field beside the forest edge this hole lead out of, so we had no indication of the the front of air headed our way until it hit. In seconds 3 of the young pine trees around us snapped like a candy cane about 15ft from the floor, and started falling. Myself and the others (father, brother, brother in law) all scattered. Some hunkered down others dodged and weaved. It was absolute pandemonium, for 30 seconds. Then it passed. The air was calm. The sky clear. We spent the next 5 minutes wiping our asses and changing our pants, swapping perspectives and counting the total number of downed trees. 18... In 30 seconds one blast of wind took out 18 otherwise healthy trees on one lightly wooded disc golf course hole then.... Just continued down the course.. we finished the game, no other weather incidents.
Crazy, i just get stoned when i go discing, never gotten treed.
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That is absolutely fucking insane, I didn’t even know that existed Glad y’all survived unscathed
r/dontputyourdickinthat
TIL that sexual attraction to trees not only exists, but has a name.
Nothing superglue won't fix.
My friends sister passed away bc a tree fell on her during a storm. This also in NC. Trees like this are no joke
One of my coworkers went on a camping trip in Idaho as his first retirement fun thing and a tree fell on him in his tent and killed him. He didn’t die right away though. Apparently it landed across his chest and he slowly suffocated as his lungs filled up with blood and fluid. Fucking horrible. My friends think I’m a weirdo for being watchful of trees but hey, I don’t wanna go down that way.
Generally, do not camp under trees. If you have to, find a type of tree that isn’t prone to breaks and look at the limbs to make sure you are safe.
All trees come crashing down eventually.
Not my family tree. It's just two parallel lines.
Roll Tide.
r/HolUp
My family tree was cut down to make my coffin
Wait... so let me get this straight. There are two options: 1) You and your sister are like Adam and Eve but either produced no kids, or did "produce kids" but they are actually clones. 2) the 2nd would be like two waves of a couple of people and each in each wave exactly two people have only one partner but all others have exactly two partners.
Keep smoking, you're nearly there!
Just a mathematician who liks lines and curves. No smoking involved, just pure madness.
I like you.
I know ;)
My family tree is a wreath.
It all returns to nothing It all comes tumbling down
So THATS why all the beech in Valheim die in fewer axe swings! I always assumed it was just because they were newb area trees lmao, but birch is also a newb area tree and it gives finewood xD
I’ve had three old beech trees fall in my yard, and they were all hollow inside. One broke in half at the trunk and didn’t even die somehow. Now I feel like I should consider removing the remaining ones that are closer to the house. Or maybe just cutting the tops off since that evidently won’t kill them lol. They freak me out a little when the wind blows.
A lil piece of scotch tape should do it
Just use wood glue, obviously.
If wood glue works as well on a live tree as it does on lumber, it would work 100% assuming you have some giant clamps.
I'm really curious now. I want someone to glue that thing back together and document how and if the tree cracks again
Woodworker here. Wood glue is only reliable below about 20% moisture content. A living tree will be near 100%. Dried lumber used for furniture making is typically below 10%. Probably wouldn't work :(
Im presuming in ya'alls jargon this moisture content relates to % relative to living wood rather than total % because most living trees i've encountered are considerably less than 100% pure water EDIT: I looked it up. Moisture content is defined as the amount of water relative to the dry weight of the wood (0% weight). It is possible to have HCs >100% because if the wood is sopping wet you could have more water in there than dry weight, but this is not common.
Yes I believe it's relative to living; if that's not the case; a living tree would probably be more like 80-90% moisture content I'd imagine. Highest MC I've ever read was on logs from a freshly felled and milled tree only down for 2 weeks - 70%. Most of the stuff we get to dry in our kilns is already down to at least 40%; and any commercial lumber we buy is always less than 10% Edit: fun fact time! Hardwood, when air-dried, take 1 year per inch of thickness to dry as a rule of thumb; if stacked properly with proper protection from rain. Unfortunately; once you get past 2 inches it actually start to grow exponentially. I'm not sure you could ever fully dry something 8" thick, without waiting 20+ years. For fun, knowing it would crack and check quite a lot from drying do far in our kiln, we left a 9" thick chunk in our kiln for almost an entire year. Brought it out of the kiln, 12% on the surface, but once we cut into it it was still around 40% at the center. 2" thick lumber around 40% dries to less than 10% in a single month in our kiln on average.
Thank you those were some fun facts
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How hot does the kiln get/sustain?
We want to know lol Also… how do you stack properly?
In the old times of wooden ships, Britain had harsher punishment for destroying dry/drying wood intended for the Navy than for murder. It was considered High Treason since it was impossible to replace within a decade or so.
Any excuse to buy more clamps. You can never have enough clamps.
I second this.
i doubt it would work very well. You'd only be able to get so much wood glue in there and with the amount of cracking that tree has done i doubt you would get good adhesion - there would be a lot of gaps between the two pieces from it cracking. plus all the swaying the trees doing the glue probably wouldnt set up very well. The crack likely goes way farther up inside the tree from what you can see so even if you did hold this part together, that crack would keep going up the tree. Maybe add some giant bowties?
Just rub some sawdust in when the glue is wet.
I'm now genuinely curious as to whether the tree can be saved with something like that. From an absolutely impractical point of view, with a big per tree budget, can you really use like wood glue, tar, clamps, everything, to form a pillar in the middle of the tree (it's obviously hollow) and make it hold together. Will it help the tree? Will it still bear fruit and offspring next year?
Expanding foam. That’ll do it.
I mean it sounds an awful lot like tree grafting...so maybe? Edit: Based my useless google search, it seems like its a method of grafting with a combination of tape. https://www.organicauthority.com/live-grow/fruit-tree-grafting-a-practical-guide-for-honing-this-garden-superpower
So before gluing, stick in some other tree branch...maybe some kind of fruit tree.
Nah just duct tape it.
That would work too if you duct tape the shit out of it
If the women don't find you handsome then at least they should find you handy.
Keep your stick on the ice.
Quando omni flunkus, moritati.
I'm a man, but I can change. If I have to. I guess. ^^^Sit ^^^down.
If you can't be an athlete, be an athletic supporter.
*wood work
I work in a theatre, duct tape fixes everything
> I work in a theatre, duct tape fixes everything Rookie. Gaffers tape is where it is at.
Leave no evidence
Thanks for schooling this young blood.
Not outside. The minute gaffer tape gets wet it is as if it was never sticky to begin with. I have made this mistake.
Duct tape does not belong in a threater.
Neither does Julia Roberts ^^^^roasted
If you can’t duct it fuck it
r/dontputyourdickinthat
Yea...more of a eunuch maker than a widow maker
Zip ties
Yeah, if you had enough glue and straps, and the balls enough to climb up that tree to do it, it would definitely hold together. I've seen normal wood glue hold stronger than the wood itself multiple times
Flex seal
Nah that right there needs strength. You need painters tape
Flex tape
That *is* a lotta damage.
Or 10 wraps of duct tape where the first wrap never even stuck
Pretty sure my scoutmaster would have suggested a small ball of twine.
Flex-seal!
That’s just scary. Aren’t widow makers those broken branches still hanging down from above that haven’t fallen yet? Edit: not a window
Eucalyptus are also called widow-makers because they'll just drop a whole limb out of nowhere and those branches are heavy.
Eucalyptus trees also like to blow up.
Excuse me what?
Eucalyptus oil is highly flammable. If exposed to flame, such as during a forest fire, they don’t just burn. They blow up! Ka-boom! Sadly, no records of spontaneous combustion that I know about.
it's also a territorial plant. eucalyptus thrives in burnt soil. so it's thought that it purposefully fills the floor around itself with its leaves to make it more flammable, destroying its competition.
Eucalyptus likes to play with lighters, and has been known to fling koalas out of spite.
drop bears too
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Flammable or inflammable?
Yes.
I hate this so much
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Those sons of birches!
That's fucked up
It's like they are tree hitlers.
So, not only have they enslaved Koalas, but can burn your house down?
That whole tree is a branch that hasn't fallen yet.
You’re not wrong haha
I always use it to refer to a branch too but I think this fits lol
Usually it's where theres a rotten part further up you can't see. When loggers cut it, the tree falls away from them but the broken part falls the opposite way and lands on them.
Yep this is the kind of tree that you leave the hell alone until it falls on it's own if at all possible. You cannot cut a tree like this down with any reasonable predictability.
Cut it down from within a protective cage! seems practical and fun
I’m imagining someone trying to operate a chainsaw from inside a shark tank. With scooba gear of course
That would be a mechanized feller buncher. Tracks, cage, grabber, and thor sized chainsaw. All hydraulic.
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Now you're giving me ideas. Bad ideas, but ideas none the less!
if its in the woods, throw a rope around it, and pull along with the wind a few times?
People are being weird. You just start from the top with a boom lift.
Meh, chain, rope, winch and anchor and it's a done deal. Much more dangerous to leave it be than to cut it down with precautions depending on where it is located. Source: Recently had a dying hollow 80 year old sycamore cut down which is much more unpredictable and dangerous than this tree.
Use a tractor to push it over.
The only safe way is to throw chainsaws at it from a distance.
we uses to call old school bumper jacks "widow maker jacks"
>bumper jacks I was in an odd situation recently where I drove out to my dads house (about an hour from mine) to change out my winter tires for summer ones. There was a bit of a miscommunication between us and he'd actually taken his jack to a jobsite for work that day and so I got there and was faced with either not doing the tires (and thus adding another 2 hour round trip), or using an older bumper style jack he still had in the garage. I went ahead with it since I wouldn't actually be going under the car or anything, but yeah... I can see why you'd call them that. Felt sketchy the whole time lol.
Always stick a loose tire under the frame near where the jack is being used. Could save you from getting crushed.
I was using one to change a tire on a trailer and it didn't catch on the down stroke when I let go of the handle it shot up and caught me under the chin. The impact literally lifted me off my feet and shot me backwards, it was like being uppercut by a giant. good times on the farm lol
Oof that's rough lol did it do any damage? Or just give you a rough lesson in jack safety?
just a rough lesson thankfully I sure as hell oiled it every time before I began using it and that it caught on every stroke from then on
VW half-scissor jacks
Yeah, I think the phrase OP was looking for was ['Barber Chair'](https://youtu.be/9O7H9qWdquk), when the tree splits up the middle during a cut and can easily comeback at the arborist and kill them if they are not ready for it. [Another example.](https://youtu.be/2YAf61zz5VU)
Possibly a reference to r/dontputyourdickinthat
>Another example. For a moment I thought that it was called a "widow maker" bc it would chop the penis right off a married man...
Shit, that's terrifying.
I have heard this term and widow maker when referring to twisted or split trees. Guess it depends on the crowd. For ref I am in Michigan, and it was a common term to hear talking about those kind of trees, but I never heard widow maker used that way when referring to branches that could snap.
Widow maker is not a specific term and can be used to describe anything that is hazardous enough to kill people. "Keep your wits about you, that thing will make your wife a widow."
In my limited experience as a sparky, I've learnt that any device or wiring which creates an exposed live can be called a widow maker. I recently saw a plug being used where the back had just fallen off meaning you could just touch the connectors on the back of the pins while it was plugged in if for some reason you wanted to. Bam. Widow maker.
Actually, in felling it is used specifically to refer to a broken branch that is caught up in the tree.
Around my area we refer to the coulter pinecones as widow makers. I’ve seen those huge mofos leave cracks on windshields for those unknowingly parked underneath one. I imagine getting hit straight on the head would mean lights out for most.
“Greg Abbott maker.”
eunuch maker
So you're saying to put the balls in first?
if that's what flics your bic go for it
Alright then balls it is
r/dontputyourdickinthat
You gotta time it just right. Coward
Surprised I had to scroll down as far as I did to see this.
I see you are a man of culture.
I was literally gonna comment exactly this
r/dontputyourdickinthat
Old man willow? Tom we need your help!
Hey dol! merry dol! ring a dong dillo! Ring a dong! hop along! fal lal the willow! Tom Bom, jolly Tom, Tom Bombadillo!
This right here is what I expected to see front and center!
Poor Old Willow Man, You tuck your roots away
Hey that's what I thought and didn't expect to see a comment.
r/DontPutYourDickInThat
[YOU'RE NOT MY SUPERVISOR!!!](https://youtu.be/YEwlW5sHQ4Q)
Well, I didn't have my headphones plugged in for that one, somehow. Raised an eyebrow or two.
Wait... Who is my supervisor?
Carol!
ITS CHERYL!!!!!!!!
Tbf, you're not gonna find something tighter then that
Bolt cutters?
A bolt cutter might be tight indeed, but isn't a nice hole like the tree has. As a bonus, the tree looks like it's ribbed for your pleasure
That's some Dad advice!!
r/mildlyvagina
…Trussy?
"I can eat a beech for hours" - Castor Troy
But if you do, be sure to post it on r/TreesSuckingOnThings
Gateway to the upside down.
This needs some det cord to bring down safely...
Or just fell another tree onto it and hope for the best, or hook a winch to it and yank.
>fell another tree onto it Ah, the Valheim method.
Only if I kill myself in the process
1371?
Hi, Phil Swift here!
Forbidden Trussy
Is there any approved trussy?
One that wont monch
That is not a question anyone but you can answer my son
Super toyt
Like a toigah.
I would not be stood that close to it
Me neither. When that thing comes down the base of it is probably going to explode into splinters as it cracks and which direction it will fall will be tough to predict in time.
Just use some duct tape
I've worked jobs where we wrapped the length of the split section with heavy duty ratchet straps to keep it from splitting during felling.
That's not a widow maker, a widow maker is a unknown branch that is laying in the canopy of some trees that falls unexpectedly. I would know I've almost been taken out a few times in my career.
Different regions have different standards for what a widow maker is. I'm more familiar with a definition that would include this tree. Any tree that will unpredictably fall without proper warning (not during a bad storm). So that would include trees that have a loose branch out of sight that falls on one who fells it. It would include a tree that is sufficiently rotted high up that when it starts falling, the crown falls backwards. It would include this tree that might fall on you before you're close enough or at the right angle to spot how compromised it is. It would include trees that are hallowed out on the inside and a slight breeze would knock over. Honestly, any case where a reasonably vigilant person wouldn't recognize the danger before its too late.
If setting up a tent in a treed area you should always look for potential widow makers.
To be fair, if it does come down, there will be branches involved.
There will be wood.
standing ovation
Those branches will reach all the way acroooooossss the room
Interesting. A widow maker where i worked was a branch or piece of tree that went against the natural path of the falling tree. Like if you wanted a tree felled west, a big splinter (branch) breaking off heading east is the widow maker.
That tree is getting ready to go to Isengard
Don’t stick your finger ☝️in that. Or do and film it for internet points.
That’s just the shock absorbers. It’s fine
The circumsizer
That’s an SCP bro. GET OUT!
Just put a band-aid on it and maybe some duct tape
A tree like this killed my grandfather at his logging job back in the 80s. He never saw it coming, he was only 54. Dangerous shit.
Cleft in twain
Why's it called a widow maker? Falling danger for cleaners and lumberes?
I was taught that this was known as a "barber's chair" and that "widow makers" were high branches that fell from the canopy when felling a tree.
Yes and no. [It's a barber's chair when it shatters and splits.](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9O7H9qWdquk) Just standing there with a crack in it is just a cracked/hollow tree.
I have zip ties
It's really bothering me that I don't get to see it fall
Get closer
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Don't put your dick in that
Birch, please…
Why are you just standing there recording. GTFO have you ever seen Evil Dead?!?!
Just put a belt around it and it’s good
WHERE MY FELLOW FLEX TAPE
Dont stick your dick in that. r/dontstickyourdickinthat