I think they got a cord into this little pickup!

Gee! They didn't see that coming?

Holy guacamole! Not what I expected from the title.

pen said:

IGuess a chainsaw would have been too much to ask for?

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I guess hiring someone who knew what the *&^%$ they were doing would be way too much to ask?

Peace,
- Sequoia

Someone didnt measure the rope corectly.

Trying to create an insurance claim on the truck? I have no idea what he was thinking.

Wow...

Came close to thinning out the gene pool!!

It is a sad reflection on my former countrymen - South Africans. The pickup is the famous "never die" Datsun 1400. Got about 40-45mpg and did about 90% of what most people ever needed a pick up to do. In general, it is a pretty arid country, so there is no really organized tree service around. More than likely, the idiot with the pickup is the "tree guy" who quit school before he got much trigonometry accomplished. Either that or Alzheimer's has erased whatever there was.

In ZA, unless you are filthy rich and you have the evidence you need on video (like here), there is no such thing as litigation for ordinary people. A day in court costs close to a years accumulated savings for many people. So no "sue me" mentality and the mindset that goes with it. After the camera stopped rolling, they probably cleaned up the mess and went on with their lives.

OK, take it away boys :lol:

Epic lulz. Been a while since I've seen this one. I have to wonder if any beer was involved.

I've seen worse. An old Gypsy friend of mine's son-in-law had a big, old oak in his yard, and doesn't heat with wood. She told him "don't cut that tree down" multiple times. His response was "whatever, it's in my way!" So him and a couple friend notched it, etc, then tied it with a big chain, and tried to use the truck to pull it the rest of the way down, similar to this vid. After about 30 minutes of no luck, the chain snapped, flew back, hit the son-in-law in the chest, and sent him flying back onto a rock, where he split his head open. The moral? Listen to a Gypsy if she tells you to leave a tree alone.

Luckily, after a hospital visit, plenty of stitches/sutures, and lots of money, the guy was ok.

thanks for posting......that was a real picker-uper for sure......high IQ's all around :-/

had me going with the title...........nice one !

HUH!...hard to believe no one saw that coming.

Great video . . . made my day.

he was very fortunate to have lived through that stupid stupid mistake .....sometimes common sense is not so common
youd think that there would be atleast one competant person in the group that had an epiphany and shouted" stop this madness ,what if this tree actually came down now as it would surely crush the truck flat and kill you in an instant !"

Hehehehehehe Hahahahahahaha...............I can't stop cracking up hehehehehehe hahahahaha this will go on all day hehehehehehahahahaha...........

LMAO!!
How stupid!
LMAO!

How many Btus in a cord of palm?

The guy shooting the video knew what was going to happen for sure. In the beginning he says in Afrikaans to someone: "where are you going to jump when that thing topples over ?" The neighbors probably exchanged words about it beforehand, but "the idiot" was going to have it his way, so "he who lost the argument" brought out his video camera to "capture the evidence". That is my social insight into what happened and the reason why everyone kept their mouths shut after the fact, since it had probably all been said before.

Seeing this type of thing is why I am convinced that the human race is evolving the wrong way...

I paused the video at the very beginning and asked my 9 year old son "Do you see a problem here?". He answered "Yeah, dad the palm tree is going to crush the truck"

Ahhh, the things kids say!

I sure hope he ties it to the truck before he leaves

I paused the video at the very beginning and asked my 9 year old son “Do you see a problem here?”. He answered “Yeah, dad the palm tree is going to crush the truck”

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Classic! Says it all.


Your 9 year old is a bit young yet to suffer from arrested development. I pray he never does. Many adults seem to have simply given up on higher learning somewhere along the line, preferring a state not too dissimilar from the zombies from early scifi 'B' movies.




TS

Techstuf said:

I paused the video at the very beginning and asked my 9 year old son “Do you see a problem here?”. He answered “Yeah, dad the palm tree is going to crush the truck”

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Classic! Says it all.

Your 9 year old is a bit young yet to suffer from arrested development. I pray he never does. Many adults seem to have simply given up on higher learning somewhere along the line, preferring a state not too dissimilar from the zombies from early scifi 'B' movies.

TS

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I hadn't thought to do that, so i just called my 5 year old in and said "Look at this movie, what do you think he's doing" and Ethan says "He's pulling that tree over, I hope it doesn't fall on the truck" a few seconds later it did, and he laughed and said , "See, I told you it would."

So we've verified that a 9yr old, and even 5yr old can call that one, anyone got one younger? My daughter is only 7 months, so I won't ask her.