How NOT to cut down a tree -6 common Mistakes

All right. All right. Well, Frankie and I had a lot of fun in that last video, but we kind of took a lot of heat. So, today we're going to try to redeem ourselves by making a video showing you how not to cut down a tree, which everybody already thinks we don't know how to cut down trees anyway, so that's not going to be hard to do. But, we're also going to show you how to cut down trees while we read hate mail. Are you ready for this, Frankie? Frankie looks really excited about this. One of my favorite comments from the last video. Since he almost cut off uh Which finger did you almost cut off, Frankie? All right. Since he almost cut off one finger, shouldn't he be called nine finger Frankie? Yeah. H. Do you like nine finger Frankie better than one finger Frankie? No. You only want to cut one as one. All right. Remember guys, we're semi-trained professionals. Don't do any of this at home. Wait a minute. This is my home. All right. Don't do any of this at my home or your home. Safety goggles. Absolutely a must. If you opt to wear a H High Viz safety vest, make sure it's strapped on tight and not loose. You don't want it caught by a branch or worse yet, a chainsaw. So, one of the things I want to show you, Frankie is actually outfitted with the right gear. Chaps are a must, guys. It's easy for a chainsaw to kick back. If we look, you can get hard hats with an integrated face screen. And the best part is your hearing protection. Frankie, can you pull that hearing protection down? Is actually built right into the safety helmet. All right, guys. Two other pieces of safety gear I forgot to mention are gloves. You might want to wear a pair. For me, I don't like them, so I don't wear them. Second thing that I do recommend is steel towed boots. Not really during the felling process, but during the blocking process. If you happen to have one of those 8 foot pieces of wood drop on your toes, steel toe boots go a long way to keeping it safe. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Just get it. Oh, this one I really like. I'm Polish and that is the most polock chainsaw notch I have ever seen. I'm Polish, too. Keeping it real, brother. Keeping it real. How much Polish are you? 50. Yeah, me too. Pock. We've got some trees right here. here we're going to use as our test subjects. Now, wherever you notch is the way they're going to fall, right, Frankie? Yep. Should I'm going to walk them through step by step every part of the process. Bottom cut goes in first. [Music] Make the notch. Flip the saw over. What he does there is he makes the mark even with the bottom of his notch. You see the bottom of his notch. Now when we look at the stump, you see he's got no spurs left over. Everything where the notches and where his cut comes across, they line up perfectly. And that helps him to drop his tree right where he wants to. That's your basics of cutting down a tree. Anything you want to add, Frankie? Nope. This was actually voted the best comment of the uh cuz it got the most likes. We watch you because we know you don't know what you're doing when you're cutting trees. So that's why we're making this video because we're going to show you how not to cut a tree. size your chainsaw for the type of work that you're going to be doing. [Applause] [Music] When you're making your top hinge cut, even though you can hold the chainsaw upside down, you typically have less control. So, it's always good to hold it the right way to avoid any kickback or any potential harm. He's not using the right PPE. If you look at his hard hat, he actually has hearing protection, but it's not doing much good wrapped around his helmet. Also, he has no chaps on. If that chainsaw kicks back, those jeans aren't going angle cut. Now, where most guys make their mistake is with this cut, right? Yeah. where you want to cut even across double cross both sides cut higher. All right, let's show them the wrong way to do it. Now, this isn't much of a treat, but even on a small dead tree like this, it still makes me nervous and freaking nervous to make a cut wrong like this because this tree, this tree can easily go the wrong way. And next, you're going to see one of those things that get a lot of people hurt. Always have full control with the chainsaw with two hands and turn it off. If he bumps that trigger, this could lead to a serious injury. Push it and it doesn't do what you want. Well, you figure it out. But this is your problem. If this would have been a real full size tree, if this if this would have been a live tree, cutting it high like this, I'm on your on your back cut, the tree is going to want to come back to you and pinch your saw, plus fall the wrong way. So, the important thing is is this cut should have been down here. Really, this to make it fall the right way. You can't do that. You've got to line up your cuts because that's the way the tree will fall. When you've when you when you don't line up those cuts, it's not going to go the way you want. It could go almost anyway. Oh. Oh, this one was good. This one I'm actually going to make a video of how to fell trees in the most dangerous way possible. Just let me try. You think All right, guys. And that's another way how not to cut down a tree. All right. Oh, here's a Somebody just wrote in, "What a flog." Ran a bad chainsaw, though. Oh, yeah. What? Well, what's a bad one? Not really. A dull one. A dull one. Is a bad one. Hell, I got a old Johnson room from 1971 sitting in the garage. after I finally got it fired up and the chainsaw and the chain sharpened on it. It's a good saw. It's a good saw. And for me, the light saw is a good saw. Oh, nice looking sharp. Yeah. Well, that's all we got for you for today, guys. God bless. Go get them. Make sure you click the subscribe button. It's going to be somewhere. I don't know. There's a subscribe button somewhere on your computer screen. Click that and comment down below what other videos do you guys want to see because oh, you know what? I'm going to tell these guys what's coming up next. going to be doing um a video series on something really cool that I cannot remember. Golly, I got it all planned out, too. So, make sure you subscribe because whatever cool thing it is I was going to do, it's coming right at you down the pipeline. All right, guys. You would think I would know what the next project is since in this video I'm literally standing right over the top of it. We're going to be putting in a live edge countertop in this kitchen. But the best part is we're doing it for pennies on the dollar. This thing is costing us next to nothing besides our labor. We literally went to the sawmill and harvested a piece of 3in maple that's over 15 ft long for this project. And we're going to show you guys step by step how to do this, how to save a ton of money, and how to have some beautiful results. Right now, we can't show it to you since we're still in the middle of the project. God bless you guys. Go one. This was awful. And I really like his videos. This is why tree guys hate landscape companies. I didn't know you tree guys hated us landscapers. I mean, hell, I love you tree guys. I thought we were kind of brothers from different mothers, but guess I guess we're not anymore. It is what it is. It is what it is. All right. I guess we're not friends anymore. [Music] All right, guys. Here's a big no no. Hey, Xander. Yes. Why is my batteries in the snow? They fell. I don't I don't buy that. They don't fall out of a chainsaw. All right, so here's the thing, guys. If you guys are going to be running a battery powered chainsaw or any battery, don't leave your batteries in the snow. That not only drains them even more, it just it's hard on them. Plain and simple. Batteries don't like extreme cold weather. So, Xander, when you're done with the batteries, they go inside on a shelf and and get charged up ASAP. Never leave them in the snow, please. If they Okay. He's a kid. How old are you, Xander? 17. 17. There you go. Give him a break. [Music] But look at the Look at the sidest. I mean, the chips he goes out. So tell me, Frankie, do you know the difference between chips and dust? Oh yeah. You want chips to come out if you just got dust. If now if all you if you're not throwing any of these chips out. Yeah. You better sharpen your chain. Otherwise, you're working way too hard on cutting down trees. Okay. So, the chips are a good thing, right? Yep. Okay. The dust. Now, we have dust here because this wood was dry. Well, you're going to have that, too. But you want chips in there. If you have no chips, if you just you and you're fighting your tree when you're cutting it and you're all you're getting off this little dust dust things, your chain is way too dull. It's Oh. Oh, here's one. It's going to be funny when you get all your chainsaws stuck in a tree at the same time. Huh. Just go get another one, I