Timber! Amateur Lumberjack Crushes Own House Chopping Down Tree
- Posted on March 21, 2012 at 5:00pm by
Erica Ritz
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In what is sure to dash any career aspirations this amateur lumberjack may have had, a YouTube video uploaded on March 18 is now going viral.
What happened? According to the video’s description, “This poor guys spends the entire day chopping down a tree that he is concerned could one day fall on his house. No chance irony was going to miss out on that opportunity. Tree won that battle.”
From the Daily Mail:
As he stands back to admire his handiwork there is silence but for a tell-tale creaking and groaning as the conifer slowly leans toward the house, before crashing down onto it.The cameraman can be heard saying ‘oh s***!’ as the man stands gobsmacked, staring at the pile of timber that was once his home.
He then screeches out ‘my house… my bedroom!’
Adding insult to injury, the video has been posted onto YouTube, prompting a barrage of critical comments from ‘armchair lumberjacks’.
No one appears to have been injured (but the man’s pride took quite a blow).
Watch the video “How Not to Chop Down a Tree,” below (warning: Some offensive language):
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Comments (60)
1azuce
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 7:54pmOn the bright side, at least he’s got some free lumber to fix up his house.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 8:01pmROFL :) Thanks…
Report Post »Uranium Wedge
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 8:36pmWhat I would like to know is, why the hell was he cutting down that tree?
Report Post »Looked like a nice tree.
deano24
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 9:27pm@Uranium Wedge
Was a decent size tree & I doubted it would’ve fallen on the house. For a tree that size, I‘m pretty sure the tree’s roots would’ve have held it in place.
Report Post »TheFlyGuy
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 7:46pmI have a feeling he googled “How to cut down a tree”…Hence the results he got.
Report Post »dusko
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 7:29pmBoom.
Report Post »Instant tree house.
sasquatch08
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 7:11pmLOL I needed a good laugh.
That video hit the spot.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 7:30pmI can see the movie “Revenge of the trees…’
Report Post »steely_eyes
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 7:08pmDon’t worry. There’s still plenty of stimulus money available. I see at least a $2 million being spent here on this axe-ready job.
Report Post »Shasta
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 7:01pmLooks like he cut this way to avoid hitting his neighbor’s property on the left of his driveway. Well, at least he did that.
Report Post »proantisocialist
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 7:12pmGuess he ignored the Axe men disclaimer that TOLD you not to try this at HOME…
Report Post »whatthecrazy
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 6:52pmUm was anybody in the house ?????????
Report Post »sooner12
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 6:39pmMaybe he could claim a random act of lightening caused it. What an idiot!
Report Post »nappy
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 6:36pmThis is cheaper than 200′ of rope and a truck to pull it?
Report Post »LIBSALWAYSLIE
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 6:47pmNAPPY: “This is cheaper than 200′ of rope and a truck to pull it?”
That would be stupid. Make the cuts correctly and the tree falls where you tell it.
Report Post »waspanglosaxon
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 6:35pmOh well, at least he got a good video out of it. Perhaps he should enter it on “America’s Most Tragi-Comic Home Videos” in order to try and recoop some of his losses.
Report Post »THXll38
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 6:24pmThat’s what you get for chopping down a perfectly good tree.
Report Post »ComradeAdam
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 9:24pmThe tree had it coming
Report Post »COFemale
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 6:22pmHe is going to be sad when his homeowners insurance isn’t going to cover stupidity.
Report Post »jhaydeng
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 6:26pmAt least he is still alive!!! HAHAAHAHAAHAAAHAAHAAAA!
Report Post »bikerr
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 6:19pm@scuba13
Report Post »you posted—–Posted on March 21, 2012 at 6:02pm
Isn’t that Encinoms house?
Answer is —–No ,The house in the video doesn’t seem to have a basement.
LIBSALWAYSLIE
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 6:50pmEncinom is an imbecile, so it could be him.
Report Post »ThomasUSA
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 6:04pmFrom the Obama Spin Perspective:
Report Post »It was Bush’s fault, but I kept it from hitting as hard as it would have. It’s socially just that a typical white person lose his home since this was Native American land to begin with, and we will establish new federal guidelines for tree cutting and a new tree tax as well.
desertspeaks
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 6:51pmfunny stuff, rarely get a laugh from the blaze comments but that’s good..
Report Post »majasdad
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 5:56pmI’m amazed that no one has made a reference to Obama on this thread. Unbelievable. Blaze fans must actually be maturing.
Report Post »bikerr
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 5:59pm@majasdad—You just did. Good analogy!. It does look like The economy wrecking a house that someone else built.
Report Post »burnteye86
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 6:00pmnobody but you
Report Post »scuba13
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 6:02pmIsn’t that Encinoms house?
Report Post »nocomment
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 6:13pmI bet ‘O-ball-funk’ had something to do with this. I mean Obama.
Or maybe it‘s the First Leeche’s fault. I mean First lady.
Report Post »chazmo
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 8:13pmor, I know.. You could just go away and not read/comment here.. You know wasting all your time and stuff.
Report Post »hnuh
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 5:47pmI didn’t hear a woman screaming at him about how stupid he was, so maybe he’ll be all right… or maybe she wasn’t home at the time.,..
Report Post »bikerr
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 5:43pmPoor guy!—” as the man stands gobsmacked, staring at the pile of timber that was once his home.”
Report Post »A little over dramatic don’t you think?.House didn’t look like a “pile of lumber.Funny video.
KickinBack
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 5:26pmLook on the bright side…At least now he has some camouflage against Big Brother’s spy drones…
Report Post »heavyduty
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 5:26pmHe is really going to be cursing when he finds out his insurance won’t cover this.
Report Post »Impudence
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 5:38pmInsurance companies cover “Accidental Direct Physical Loss” so, yes, stupidity is pretty much a covered loss. The Insurance company will have to prove he did it purposely in order for them not to pay.
Report Post »mbck1491
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 5:25pmHey stupid!!! Anytime you have a tree that close to your house that’s when you break down and spend the money and hire a professional. It never pays to be cheap and cut corners. Hopefully you have homeowners insurance. Most importantly hopefully you learned your lesson.
Report Post »Zoe
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 5:14pmEveryone’s stupid, thankfully just on different days…..
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 8:03pmOh, yea… Remember the 2008 Election!
Report Post »LeeR47
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 5:14pmLucky he didn’t get hurt. That tree was way too large to take down without special training.
Report Post »Gary_K
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 5:27pmHe should not have tried to cut the tree down without a truck and cable, it leaned towards the house to begin with. It wasn’t too big, I have cut down larger trees and have no formal tree cutting training.
Dumb is dumb if you have training or not.
Report Post »martinez012577
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 5:11pmWe have all done something like this. Maybe not to this extreme but everyone makes mistakes. Hopefully he can recover from this quickly.
Report Post »NeoKong
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 5:11pmNice going Paul Bunyan.
Report Post »He could have had that tree chopped down for free by a professional just for the wood.
4xeverything
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 5:09pmHey y’all, watch this!
Report Post »RedManBlueState
Posted on March 22, 2012 at 1:13pmHold my beer……
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