Thanks for sharing Matt! Lots of guys would have chosen to keep This one private but good for you trying to help us all out!

You are a champ man. I am glad to have seen this video. It has given me more awareness of what to look out for and to avoid. I’m sure this could easily have happened to absolutely anyone. I’m glad you are ok. Keep climbing and stay safe out there brother. Thank you for the courage to show the rest of us what can happen. It helps to see the bad and keep us on our toes.

Thanks Matt for the video and Jake for puting it out there. Im a new, occasional climber and stuff like this is so valuable and so much to learn from. Just another thing to really keep an eye out for, especially me being green. Seriously appreciate that you decided to share this. So happy you're ok Matt, be safe out there guys.

99% sure I know how to avoid this, but I’m 100% sure I could have made the same mistake as you in the moment. Appreciating the reminder 👍

It only takes one thing.. glad you're ok, good on you for sharing the footage. Hopefully those of us who see will remember the lesson

There is truth to that as far as education. I would add, those videos for the more experienced tree person. I do a lot of training of new people. And advice not to watch those kind of videos, only because they do not understand the reasons or dynamics involved as to why things go wrong in videos. I feel it is counterproductive in new people. It can easily instill fear. I would also add, there are good youtubers out there who put out videos that incorporate beginners level of explanation. And I'm not saying this is a bad video by any means.

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@@alsmith1392 and it should.

This is all pathetic nonsense.

Small boys trying to give advice to become famous, pathetic

Climbing and cutting is very humbling when it’s life or death , we all understand what it takes!

Very well said

Good to hear! Becauae here in Germany we have some really toxic people crowding the digital space -.-

I do the same thing in ify situations. Sometimes I take a second wrap with lanyard and attach to same ring. Once saved me from impersonating tooth paste when a 12" oak limb did this! Great video.

Yep, saved my hips once. Single point tie in, horizontal leader, sycamore split, crack, snap goes lanyard, I swing on tie in on adjacent tree, yeeha... Adrenaline rush, done for the day... Lol... To old and paranoid to climb anymore... Now I just run the bobcat. ;)

Box cut

Similar to a wedge/coos bay cut(edit; also called a triangle cut). They can still peal out, but nowhere near like in the video. A tip for new guys is to practice these cuts on a tree you've fallen. One caveat is that they will not have a similar tension compression as they did not grow that way, but it will help to learn to match your cuts well and how fast they can split if not done properly while having your feet on the ground. Be safe out there guys.

I like this technique too, willow is weak and bridle so I’d probably use a face cut (underside) and kerf cuts to help it from barber chairing.

This is the way to do it, with some types of trees, there is no other safe way, like a hanging beach branch for example, or any other long fiber tree that is prone to this type of split. I think this video would have been complete, with this explanation as a solution.

Cool advice! So basicaly if a horizontal branch is too thin for a bore cut you do box cut?

I worked in an oil refinery in the US for a little over 10 years. They're the same way - safety, safety, safety. If someone so much as drops a wrench when 15ft above grade there's a safety standdown and questions are asked and lessons learned. If you saw a problem, no matter how small, you owned it. When you owned it, if you did nothing about it, that meant a chat with the boss and likely HR. I remember my second day on that job. A contractor had about 8 big buckets stacked in the back of his pickup. The road was at a 6% grade and he was standing on the buckets to reach the top bolts on a sign he was putting up on a tall post. There was no bed liner in his pickup bed and it was raining. The engineer I was with, who was showing me the job pulled up along side his truck an wound down the window. I though we were there to watch the ensuing comedic faceplant that was surely going to happen. He then asked me "well, where's the English sarcasm now? Aren't you going to tell him what an asshat he's being and that he should get down and go get the proper ladder for the job?" The guy said he only had one more bolt to put in but I reminded him that because I had told him to step down from the job and called a "stop work" incident that it was now my behind on the line for his safety. We had to wait 30 minutes for him to come back with a ladder to complete the job safely. At the time I felt like an idiot for doing this but he went home with teeth and nose intact and I learned an on the job lesson. At first it seemed tiresome, the overbearing emphasis on safety but as time progressed it just became more like a company where people were looking out for each other and making positives when bad things did happen. Look out for your coworkers and make sure that everyone goes home as healthy as they arrived, if not healthier.

Came here to say this. “Post cut” as I like to call it. I especially do this on oaks and really any tree that’s more prominent to Barber chair.

I do the same

Could you elaborate? Flip the line around the trunk and then instead of cliping it into my harness I should clip it directly back into the line? Did I understand correctly?

@@filipbelak6594 yep, or the same d, better for your harness to clip it back on itself. I've only ever tried it with a steel core flipline, and never had to deal with a delam.

I was thinking of that watching this.

What's the improved jump cut, familiar with everything else you said. Thanks.

Great idea with the zip ties. It’s important to remind people that what we are talking about is using a zip tie (or accessory carabiner) as the weak link in the lanyard, which in this situation is only being used for work positioning-NOT life line. One would also have to be tied in to a climbing line.

Sometimes we make the wrong move, other times it's just a lack of experience, either one can kill just the same, thank God for his mercy.

Exactly, much like one handing a saw, many times it's a matter of counting the cost/risk analysis either way. While we have certain "rules" we abide by, it's important that we understand why they are there and "what will happen when I cut this". Be safe.

We've all had scares, but when you're in it like that it raises the level of scare to a new height. Praise God you're fine 🙂

Thanks John! Watch my last video bro I was cutting huge pieces with the Limb Reaper 😎

Shave away? Does that mean you make a series of undercuts side by side and then go for the tension after a handful of cuts?