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Thread: Perfect tree felling between two fenceposts - GIF

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jon View Post
    I like this one too.

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    Is it me or do those roots look like they have been cut? Makes me wonder if there are some buried cables that caused the root system to fail.

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    I would say that persons life might be one big flat tire!

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    A friend of mine had a tree from a local church fall on his car as he drove past, he suffered quite a serious injury but survived (with brain trauma), and as I said to him later God just warned you!

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    That 1st video, to have missed the house — and put it through the open gate — was incredibly lucky. Lucky that it didn't twist, going down. Also, he just stood there — waaaaay too close — for the sake of his personal safety.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jon View Post
    I like this one too.
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    We have a new winner. A last second push of the tree trunk, an extremely lucky landing in between two guys, and then an inexplicable pinata-breaking moment where everyone rushes to...grab a piece of the tree?


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    why, just why were they allowed to congregate within approx 3 times the height of that columnar tree? Absolute carelessness of life!.

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    What made it swing to the right halfway down? It was heading right for the crown of people. that little boy almost got hit.

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    It appears to have caught the roof over the entrance doors to the building and that diverted the direction of fall - - - Luckily!

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