YouTube footage has emerged of an amateur lumberjack attempting to chop down a huge evergreen tree just a few feet away from his house - with disastrous consequences.
n the amusing video the sound of four large wedges being driven into the trunk echo out as a man takes to the tree armed with only an axe.
Seconds later the creaking and groaning of timber can be heard as the giant conifer slowly crashes down directly onto the one story house beside it.
The axeman, realising that he has felled the tree onto the roof of his own home seems 'stumped' for a moment and then shouts, my house! and a few seconds later, my bedroom!
The clip sparked a barrage of comments, many seemingly from 'armchair lumberjacks' offering advice on the correct way to cut down a tree.
One posting reads, the notch in the front was about one-fifth the height and half the depth it should have been. Adding, He should have been tensioning that bad boy.
Link to video: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/9153007/How-not-to-cut-down-a-tree.html
TIMBER!
n the amusing video the sound of four large wedges being driven into the trunk echo out as a man takes to the tree armed with only an axe.
Seconds later the creaking and groaning of timber can be heard as the giant conifer slowly crashes down directly onto the one story house beside it.
The axeman, realising that he has felled the tree onto the roof of his own home seems 'stumped' for a moment and then shouts, my house! and a few seconds later, my bedroom!
The clip sparked a barrage of comments, many seemingly from 'armchair lumberjacks' offering advice on the correct way to cut down a tree.
One posting reads, the notch in the front was about one-fifth the height and half the depth it should have been. Adding, He should have been tensioning that bad boy.
Link to video: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/9153007/How-not-to-cut-down-a-tree.html
TIMBER!
