Just wanted to say thanks for doing something for a wildlife rescue facility. Those folks have a hard enough time with funding, putting work into your community just makes you all the more humble and respectable.

I marvel at the skill it takes to do what you do, and do it safely. I don't understand quite why you take the trouble to make these videos, but thank you - they are fascinating to watch.

Damien reading those swings just right ! a lot of care went into setting those lines . Nice of you all to help the Animal rescue Business. Real blue sky day . Thank you August, for taking us with you . Nice to see Adam getting back into the groove !

Looks like the only thing keeping those widow makers upright was termite dung and force of habit. As always you did a great job.

"He's got a pray animal right next to him .thats gotta be little frustrating. " says August .LMAO .😂.i love your sense of humor.

Hey August, I just wanted to express my appreciation for your videos. Somehow you manage to produce the perfect balance of education and entertainment. Keep up the good work and keep helping people who help people (or critters).

Just when I thought August and the Guys were cool enough, they up the coolness factor by doing Pro Bono work for the community! Fantastic!

Damiens smile when the awkward price lets go is priceless! Just like Jeff patiently waiting for something to do. 😲🤣 those were some nasty trees for sure!! Great job as always!

Nicely done August and Damien your whole crew got everything done safe and your on to the next one!! As a residential tree guy that what the goal is every time! Thanks for sharing sketchy trees for sure!!

That cougar was looking at you thinking.....ooohh supper! 😁 Job well done. Thanks for the video.

True skills and no nonsense!!! Respect for all of you guys. Dangerous job done right 👍👍

Thank you, August, for the picking, felling and unique view of neighbors. it is every day we get to see a bear, a big cat, and a mystery mammal.

Those trees were not long for this world ... glad they came down in a professionally controlled way instead of falling in a storm!

Just a few things about this video I liked (out of many more) * August instructing Wyatt on cutting strategy at the beginning * Damien describing some of the technical aspects * Some of the behind-the-scenes footage at the beginning * The 360 camera shots...... it seems like the focus/resolution is especially crisp. * The slo-mo felling footage at the end * The animals at the end... especially the bear

Loving the point of views and angles that new camera is giving! Huge respect to you August and your crew for getting those trees down safely. It's amazing that they hadn't failed on their own. Keep yourselves safe! Randy

Nice job, I don't envy you guys working on those skanky cottonwoods. Amazes me that the thin ring of sapwood can still support the weight of the tree, that stem really shit the bed once you put the back cut in.

I got to say I’ve watched quite a few videos and I love how you guys work together keep up the hard work and stay safe.

Lots of work in getting all those cool camera angles and I appreciate it. Top-Notch!

That Undercut should be second nature . You men are a highly skilled And I enjoy learning from the vids you and others post.

Sweet vid August 👍😊👌. I have in the past by request brought hollow trunks to the wild life rehab center. They put them in the animal enclosures for habitat.

Another great job. 👌👏👏👏❤️

August is the coolest and best tree guy I have seen on here

Great video guys!!!! Love it... Absofreakilnlutely love it....

Great work MB crew for a worthy cause. At least the timber was light if nothing else :-)

Good content ,nice camera work and editing . They were dangerous trees to have next to your house . Hollow ones are problems

thanks for sharing anlther interesting video sir...those were some sketchy looking trees for sure. It amazes me just how much strength there is in so little wood!! Good to see the boss still has some chainsawin' skills. lol Cheers

The bog of eternal stench lives to septic another day! Man that would have been rough without the claw

Crazy how much weight those straws were holding up. Definitely a crane job! I would not want to be rigging off those.

What's up august 😆! !!!👌👍👍💪💪💪 Nice.😆. Beautiful mate

I really enjoy watching all KZfaq videos on your tree climbing adventures. Well done with some great narratives/commentary. FYI, at 10:24 / 18:56 there's a few frames taken by the GoPro camera mounted to top of the crane stick showing what appears to be a stranded wire cable with a few broken strands below the cable clip. As you & your whole crew are so safety conscious, I'm sure you're probably already aware of this as I might be seeing the section of free wire end beyond the cable clip. Again, thanks for the great videos.

That hollow ring of bark was holding up that whole tree. Well done guys. terrifying.

August “Oh There Goes Gravity” Hunicke

Lot of time editing this one August. Good job!

Kudos on the climb. Not sure I would want to be up something that rotten.

The way you use that 360° camera is awesome!

Thank you for supporting that animal organisation. What beautiful creatures. PS - those hollow trees were insane.

That would qualify for your bad trees, it's just a little sketchy says Damian whilst looking at a huge hollow all the way down, August convinced you hey Damian that it's ok..lol..Kidding fellas, stay safe all the way & thank you for the best tree video's going around.

Hey August, though i live in a concrete jungle of South Philly Penna .I really enjoy your content and really enjoy your mastery or rigging and rope and crane work.Stay Safe brother.Peace.

You folk are fortunate to have so much primo poplar timber there in Orygun. Soooo thankful we in CT don't. Lethal junk wood IMHO.

You sound like Tony Hinchcliffe and look like a young freddy Roach. You have great voice for KZfaq bro. Very satisfying

Awesome video. I sure wish those rescues were able to get more money to help them. That was one big bear !

like new gopro footage has gotten even better them were some sketchy crap trees dont think i would have wanted them next to my house but safely dealt with nice job stay safe guys

Great job and and also helping some poor critters that needed the help. At 14:00 it looks like you maybe should think about replacing the main lift cable on your boom truck. it has a few broken strands.

Would be a cool shot to get if in the future for these types of trees you toss a glow stick down it.

Peter Sripol could have flown a drone through that tree . holy elevated awareness tree job .

11:55 min mark..another beautiful A.H. lift-off!!!!

Nice that those cotton woods had built in tie in holes, very convenient. That one critter looked like a rabbit went for a ride on the cougar for just long enough before he was eaten and a few months later that guy entered the world. The miracles of nature...

Interesting camera angles/shots dude,! Not got a clue how you manage that but it certainly looks good :)

Damian, Ed Bassmaster " just look at it" 😂😂

Great job. I had a cottonwood that was like a 160 ft tall. Hired a local company that had the crane truck and he ran everything from the ground it was kind of cool

Cottonwood being the trashy no-heat stovewood they are, I wanted to see the chipper gnaw some up. Great vid. I happened to have captioning on, and most of the machine and saw noise was labelled 'Music' ☺

Pretty work as usual

Entertaining video. Thanks.

Jeff must of won at rock,paper,scissors and got to be supervisor for the day.

Nice camera work. As Butthead would say, " Scetchy isn't a strong enough word to describe all that crap!"

Great video. What causes the trees to get like that? I have a few rock oaks like this where I am at. Also have seen a few white oaks like this. Luckily they are far away from the house. Dad cut into 1 a few years ago. It scared the hell out dad and me. We got it down but it was scary when it started to fall. Just glad nobody got hurt from them. Just wondering if you didn't have a crane for this job. How hard would this job have been? How much longer would it have taken to do this job? What could you do to a tree like this to make it safer to get it down on the ground if you didn't have a crane?

Hi August --- enjoying your videos - makes me feel good about "leaving it to the professionals!". One question though -- How do you go about reliably attaching the crane hook to a fundamentally unsafe tree ??

It's called a cavy. Largest rodent. Kinda cute.

that first one is beautiful

You need the sunglasses attachment for your protos 💪

August, talking about the puma at 17:50. 'He's looking at me like he's.....' I think the unsaid next word might have been 'Hungry'! 🦁

Who is the A-hole that would give this video a thumb down? Great video - clearly you spent a ton of time and effort.

I expected raccoons to come running out of that tree

August, would you consider coming to eastern Oregon? I got 5 100' cottonwoods that need to come down? Plus about 10 elm that need trimmed. Love your Videos, keep up the good work.

Those big hollow logs would be a great home for the bears.

WOW! Talk about a dangerous tree removal.

Not that my opinion means anything but you and your lads have developed some serious skills at determining rigging for the crane. The loads aren't normal and you lads are doing it. I miss the speed line stuff though. I was blown away the first time I watched one of those videos. No disrespect to the more efficient and safer approach.

Crane is worth the safety factor alone on this job...that toilet up top freaked me out...

BEAUTIFUL 🤗

thanks for another good video

No such thing as a safe tree ...they can all kill u with even a small mistake .I always feel a small nervous tickle in my bones with every tree I work ... I think it reminds me that staying alive and going home after work is what's really the goal here. Stay safe guys your familys need you forget bravado and ego ,Its not you who suffer if you do get hurt it's your loved ones..they feel it way more than and pain we may suffer . That's more than enough to keep ya head focused I hope. 🌳🌲🌴 God bless from ENGLAND 🇬🇧

Good work getting that blighter down! Definite possible use case for elevated work platform arb work if access allowed. If you really gotta hang off a tree that sketchy, fasten that helmet to your head lad!

Great video!

Didn't see a bucket truck, so who on the crew has the big brass ones to climb out and set the rigging lines before each drop?

You guys are way brave!

Great job

I saw one just like this one. His was about 4 ft in diameter. It split when it started tipping broke into 3 pieces and collapsed on it self. The guy with saw was lucky to stay out of the way.

I dropped a tree in ARIZONA called a chinaberry tree that looked like your cottonwoods. As I was cutting at the stump my chips were a weird brilliant white. When it dropped, thousands of small white scorpions came flowing out of the hollow stump like a fountain! Those little suckers were deadly! No gopros in those days.

Hahaha " dangerous FREAK tree " you f'n kill me August ..

Really enjoyed the video as always. Would you have done those without a crane? I do a lot of sketchy cottonwoods, but man! Those were just a goosepen, shell!

That kangooroo cross would be a capibara i guess. Biggest known rodent from South America

Its a South American Capybara, the largest rat there is. Mea Culpa is it a Patagonian cavy ?, at least I had the right continent

That would make a great bee tree.

That was a miracle that those trees didn't fall on the house or people....

I get a LOT of those trees. People generally have no idea what impending danger looms overhead 24/7😮

Holy he-...llo! Surprised you didn't run into some yellowjackets or a raccoon in one of those hollows. ...and @14:00 ...I hope that is the excess tail of your crane cable that looks all frayed there.

Oh need a good little electro mag mount

Cottonwood = the ultimate trash tree.

Have you guys ever used (tested?) electric chainsaws for doing crane work so that communication is easier without having to stop/start an engine? This is a curiosity question. I have zero experience in your industry.

What was growing up the side of those hollow cottonwoods.? P-Ivy..? Thanks.

When I was young we used to cut down dead ash almost every day for over a year. The woods behind my house was full of them. Was the first trees I ever cut down and I had no idea how dangerous it is to cut down dead trees. At the time I didnt even know there was a difference from dead to living trees. lol

Trees are amazing! Be Well

Wow felicitaciones 👏puro video de calidad y profesionalidad

Imagine Ed Bassmaster on that job? Oh wait he was there!

Not very sound he says.....understatement of the week, I'd call that a rotten toothpick!

Damn cottonwoods

You learn to like trees that are hollow when you don't have fancy equipment YET. Lol Much easier on the back.

nice job .... will you just look at it ... look at it...

What kind of ivy was growing on the tree and was that possibly the cause of it's death? Being in another part of the country it does not look like the typical ones in the midwest like Virginia creeper, English ivy, or poison ivy. There are a few others like Chinese Bittersweet and Kudzu that are very invasive under the right conditions, but this one does not look familiar or like any I described.

That cross breed is a CAPPY BARA