No Room to Fell a Tree? Watch This Genius Solution!

In this video, we tackle a challenging tree removal in Helsinki, Finland, where there’s no safe space to drop the tree. Instead of traditional felling, we bring in a massive 121,000-pound mobile crane to lift the tree out piece by piece! 🏗️

🔹 How do you remove a tree with no drop zone?
🔹 Why did we use a crane instead of climbing?
🔹 What special notching technique keeps the tree from swinging?

Watch as our expert "flying lumberjack" is hoisted up to cut the tree while the crane safely lifts the trunk away. This method is a game-changer for urban tree removals, ensuring safety and precision!

📌 Topics covered in this video:
✅ Professional tree removal with a crane
✅ Urban forestry techniques for tight spaces
✅ Safe notching and cutting methods
✅ Preventing tree swing during lifting

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⛑ HELMET: Forest helmet, Technical
🦺 JACKET: Husqvarna high vis forest jacket, Technical Extreme
👖 TROUSERS: Husqvarna chainsaw trousers, Technical Extreme Arborist
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[bobwallace]

I had a guy remove an 80' pine, one firewood round at a time. He first climbed the tree and cut off branches as he went. Those branches piled up around the base of the tree and furnished a cushion for the rounds as they fell. He then asked me how large my fireplaces was, climbed back up and cut perfect rounds as he descended.

The first estimate I got was for thousands of dollars. They wanted to remove fences, have the power company take down lines, have the local police shut down the road, and get permission to let the tree smash landscaping on the property across the road. This guy did the job in less than a day for a few hundred dollars.

[russshaber]

I bought a house with a large pine growing through the crawlspace and deck, next the side wall. When the tree died, I didn't have the money for such equipment. I built a platform in the tree, I cut branches and lowered them with rope. Then I cut and lowered one round of 16" at a time. I also cut the stump out of the crawlspace. It took a few days, but I got a season's worth of firewood to heat my home.

[kathleenmayhorne]

Watching from north queensland australia. My grandmother nan-nan was a finnish immigrant into australia. Her husband, an englishman was a tree feller, who was known for using one springboard and his axe, to make his way up the tree. I watched him practise this, on a tree in his backyard. He won prizes for his chopping. Other men in the family were loggers too. An uncle (of german descent) knew how to craft boat-making wood from logs in his saw-mill. That uncle was also a crane oowner operator, he showed me how to drive his bull-dozer, and why he didn't use it to cut forests. When he had to use his crane to lift his bulldozer off his only son's chest in an unknown ravine in a paddock, we all were so very sorry for him. His wife and daughter got to say goodbye, he didn't. He cut his hand off with his chain saw when a log rolled, he was standing on it to cut it. He got his hand re-attatched and continued to run the mill. After retirement he learned to lay bricks, built his house, levelled his land and landscaped with his bulldozer and the volcanic rocks, one as big as a car, and continued to cut trees that were blown down, clearing roads after local cyclones. Family names are Kalliomaki, Schwertfeger and Johnstone. Great grandpa called himself Rock, was a furniture maker, pineapple farmer, and road builder on mountains. The aussie government let him bring out other Finns, who were having a tough row to hoe, finding work after the war, to help build roads.
Those branches on a trunk that make the tree unpredictable, as it falls or rolls, are called widowmakers in aussie english logger terms.

[catabaticanabatic]

No dramas. No "bigging-it-up", No Prima Donnas. Just great skills. Excellent video.

[robertalan]

I Have removed many trees like this. Crane removals are convenient but expensive. Normally I would limb it on the way up, rope branches down if necessary, and then 'chunk' it to the ground meaning cutting short manageable pieces and dropping them. We would leave the property in the same condition as when we came in with the exception of a bit of sawdust around.

[Enduser]

Great video! Your camera work and narration was very good, and no annoying music. I have watched a LOT of tree removal videos, but I have never seen this method. Thanks for sharing!

[brunonikodemski]

Most interesting. Similar to a comment below, We had a similar tree removed, but twice as thick. Four man crew came in and also started with a climber. He cut all the branches off on the way up, and then he slabbed chunks. The chunks were for the size of fireplace widths. The chunks were lowered via a sling setup. This company then slices them (with machine at plant), and packages them for local stores. Whole job was about four hours, and cost 1100$usd. The crew said they had two more jobs same day.

[jiversteve]

I used to work in building maintenance. I often had to replace AC units. I always requested the same crane driver and banksman, because often there was no sight line between crane driver and load.
With a couple of hundred lifts my team never had a problem. Best team ever.

[RomanErokhin]

Good job!
Sad that they had to remove this beautiful tree at all.

[jimsherlock]

This video was amazing showing the excellent talents of working together with the crane operator.
I have never seen any tree removed like this, definitely I was watching an artist at work.
Thank you.

[TrinaLakeLife]

Wow! Those guys work perfectly together.

[DevilbyMoonlight]

I had to remove a pair of pine trees a few years back between mine and my neighbours house after a storm had caused them to damage the guttering... I just climbed up and cut them down in small manageable pieces, there was a lot of mess piled up at the bottom so had to stop a few times but I got it done without the need to hire a huge crane

[tigerlinny]

One of the most fascinating videos I seen! With great admiration for: people adept at their jobs, those who innovate to enhance their expertise, videographers who narrate their story succinctly in harmony with excellent camera work! Thank you to all who made this extreme job look so easy, the crane operator, the videographer and a big hug for the lumberjack❣️

[Pappazeko]

Very interesting. Videography was really good. Drone work fantastic well done.

[JeanieEdwardsConsulting]

WOW! 😲
This is Ingenious!
Once the top came off, I was expecting the tree would be sectioned
into another two pieces, but I was so wrong.
This took a lot of planning and was executed perfectly with teamwork!
And all within 15 minutes!
Fantastic video!

[rapsarummakko]

Wau! Ilo seurata kun ammattilainen hoitaa homman. Arvostan! 👍🏽

[eskokoskenranta]

Kotitalousvähennys taisi huveta tuohon operaatioon. Hyvää dronenkäyttöä, ja muutenkin hyvin kuvattu, editoitu, spiikattu ja vielä aidolla rallienglannilla. Ensimmäinen kansainvälinen Jounin video minkä näin, loistosuoritus ' keep on going Jouni.

[jensmatthaei]

We had an Iraki tree climber who climbed up grown larches of 20+m with a Stihl 260 on his belt. He cut the tree in meter pcs in between the houses in 30 min for 200.-€ ... in the time you built up the crane, the tree has already disappeared ;). But the sheer size of your tree is amazing, probably not feasible by hand any more.

[michaelguerin]

Nice job. I like the idea of only using the climbing spikes to stabilise your position and make the descent safer, instead of using them to climb the tree🙂. Much easier on your legs! Cheers from NZ🇳🇿.

[gls]

From someone who has fallen his share of trees and worked in the home construction industry for a decade in the US. Two things most impressive, the very efficient and simple method of removing a tree is a location such as this. And the apparent usual and customary construction of the houses in that area of Finland, very impressive! I would love to have a tour inside such houses some time.