Knocking down a Giant tree with an Excavator

Heat. Heat. [Music] All right. So, Frankie, I was thinking I'll put the excavator right about where you're at. Yeah. And push it get up on the heart of it there and push the Yeah. I'll put the pressure this way. And if we put the notch here, I'll notch it before you put any pressure on it. So, we'll try to get it to go directly right into those trees right over there. All right. Your yard. That's the game plan. Let's go have some. Are you talking like Stan cares about his yard? Cottonwoods. I know maples. I know oaks, pine trees, the rest of them. I couldn't tell you anything. You know what that tells me? What's that? That one's got to go. Yeah. I don't like I don't want to take it down, but that's a scary tree. That's for sure. Got to know. And that was the intro. Bring it. Well, while these guys are trying to start up their equipment, I think I'll go try to start up my equipment. Okay, I got mine ready. Hey, go for it. [Music] Spin it and watch this whole thing. Heat. [Music] Now, this is a fixed position thumb. And I'm going to guess that there's people going to try to tell me I don't know what I'm doing because I don't have a hydraulic thumb. Well, the fact of the matter is I don't have one on this piece of equipment and I'm making do with what I got. I grew up not having a whole lot. And I learned that if you can make do with what you have and still get a job done, well then it may not be perfect, but it's good enough. And that's what I'm doing here. Good enough for me. [Music] Let's get the fox out. That's a good idea, too. Good morning. Good morning. You shouldn't stay in here. You don't want to stay in here while we're working. Sorry, Storm. It's not going to be good. It's not going to be good. Well, well, wait a minute. What am I saying? It's going to be It'll be great, Storm. We're just You're going to go inside. Yeah, I would hide, too, when we're running chainsaws. Definitely. That's not going to protect you down there. Trust me. As much as you think that will help with that tree, it's probably not going to be a game changer for you. Okay. So, why don't you come out? Come on out and we'll go in the house. All right. Come on. Let's go. I think the fox knows we plan on cutting down the tree. Does it? Yeah. She's hiding. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Hey, hey, So, actually, I placed my camera below the tree because I was trying to get two of the branches to split right around it, but that didn't work out quite the way I wanted it to. If you look closely in the lower left corner, you can see the Milwaukee light. I actually set the camera on top of that and the tree kind of came crashing down on the whole thing. Woo! I think I hit my camera. Yes, sir. You did. The camera was placed here, right? Yeah. And I don't know which branch, but some branch hit it like this. Just like boom right on top and then it just went like that. So, talk about Milwaukee top. Holy holy. Look at All right. Uh, look at this. Was on top of it. All of this I was using this as my tripod. Oh my gosh. Oh, that is awesome. That is awesome. So, I I want to conserve this whole trunk for doing chainsaw milling, but look at she's You see how the dirt I mean, it's No, that's from the inside. That's the center. Well, how did that dirt get inside? Just rot. I mean, so this tree was rotting from the inside. Well, look. Good thing you took it down. Look it. You can see like look at there's a weird ring. You guys see that? Yeah. Look at that. There's like a weird ring. Dude, that's dirt. Hey, you can dig your little nose picker right in there. It's not dirt. It's bug poop. Well, yeah. It's rot. It's like there's nothing there. It's bug poop. It's bug poop, bro. So, this is Stop it, Frankie. How did you get over here? Uh, my ninja climbing skills from being a farm boy. [Music] Are you getting the perfect camera for the perfect shot, man? [Music] [Applause] Frankie, if you cut that branch where you're on, you're not cutting that, right? So, I was going to I was going to cut. Yeah, but I'm afraid that whole thing's going to come down. Yeah, cuz you got a lot of pressure on the tree. Your butt's on. Take that one down again. This one. And that one again. That other one, I guess. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. that hole. That's a squirrel nest. Squirrel nest. So, here's another thing that really kills these trees are those holes. Stick your hand in there. Feel how wet that is. Squirrel in there. [Applause] All right, let's see if there is one in there. Your hands are smaller than mine. No, I'm not worried about a squirrel. I mean, it would hurt. Didn't fit. But I would be more worried about a wasp nest. This is just cool. This is all right. Which one of This is Elliot's climbing technique. I have a wonderful electronic invention I want you to see. It looks something like you. [Music] Heat [Music] up here. Heat. Spend all my money on pretty things, diamond tues, and all these diamond rings. Yes, I spend my money on these fancy cars left for me. Spent all my money on expensive clothes on a mink fur coat. Then I bought a house that goes. Yes, I spent my money on a swimming pool on a lot of things. Don't think I'll ever use and I spend my money on these pretty things. I ain't no [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] this guy is nuts. [Music] Where do you want this? [Music] So once we get the final giant log moved out of the way, it's time to fix all the damage we did to the lot. This is the power rake. It's on the front of the vent track. Probably the best power rake I've ever used. Better than any ones on skid loaders because that vent track doesn't leave any tire treads behind. We're also using the hurricane leaf blower to clean up all the debris to make sure that that yard is stick and span before we're all done. [Music] your body and your mind. [Music] 1 2 3 [Music] Well, I guess I'm going to probably get dozens of comments about all the things I did wrong in this video, and they're right. But the thing is is I don't really care because I didn't take this down like a normal tree. I actually took this down the same way that I take down silos when they're hovering right over the tops of barns. Or an even more difficult situation is when I got to take down a three or a fourstory building in Minneapolis and they're so tight together you can almost reach out one window and touch the building next to it. That's the way I took this tree down. Now, earlier in the video, I tried to predict exactly where this tree would fall, and it actually came pretty close, but it wasn't dead on because I wanted to try to get a couple of the branches of the tree to split right between my camera, and instead, I nailed it. All right, you guys got to tell me one thing. I'm I'm experimenting with a new opening that sped up, kind of summarizing the entire video in the first minute. Let me know what you guys think of that. If you like it, I'll do more. If not, well, then I'll xnay it. And one last thing before you go, make sure you check out one of these other videos. They're somewhere on the screen. God bless you guys.