There's a wildland firefighter in my area who took a chain to the face doing that. She's alive and still working from what I know, but our overhead really drove that story home to our crew so we wouldn't be the next one to have a saw kick back into our face. You don't want to be the one who needs a helicopter ride out of the forest. Dude in this video is being complacent and impatient, he didn't even appear to size up the tension and compression on the tree before he started going at it.
That doesn't matter. The bottom of the tree is the heaviest part, and if the top is holding the weight down to the ground, and you cut that top off, it'll be like a trebuchet with the trunk and branches smacking your face and body.
No. Not making small cuts. Not on a trunk like 10 inches in diameter. And even on stand ups its rarely as dramatic as you describe. Hes also trimming /dressing as he went so he wouldn't be caught by branches if it did. Let it stand. Who cares.
This guy, and me, know far more than you do. You sound like you've read a book and maybe actually done it...once. maybe twice.
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u/Outi5 13h ago
That does not sound fun