ANewSawyer
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This just a brain tickler for the pro arborists and treefessionals on here.
Stopped by a friends house today and was standing in the yard, talking. I looked at this redbud they have a wonder why I didn't remember their other maple tree hugging it so close. (I had previously noticed the redbud being crowded by this huge maple.) Then I realized there was a HUGE fallen branch in the redbud, almost as big as this whole redbud that is at least 20 feet high. So the outer branches of the limb are resting in the redbud from about 6 feet off the ground to a few feet below the top. And all the way from one side to another. The butt end of the branch is still stuck up in the maple about 40 feet off the ground but the branch it is sitting against is less than 1/2 the diameter. The butt isn't laying across a branch, it is laying parallel. There is a tiny, compared to the broken branch, limb kinda holding it but I really don't see how the butt hasn't come loose unless the weight is mostly on that redbud. I should be able to bend or break anything holding it in the air and that makes me think most of the weight is on that redbud. I know pictures are worth a thousand words but I didn't have my camera with me. Sorry! I like to think about things like this and how I would deal with it. But make no mistake this is a job for a pro with lots of equipment but how would the pros go about doing it safely? I thought and thought about it. This just seems like such a dangerous situation that I don't see a very good way to go about it short of a crane. How the heck do you deal with something so mobile and dangerous as a branch resting between two trees?
Stopped by a friends house today and was standing in the yard, talking. I looked at this redbud they have a wonder why I didn't remember their other maple tree hugging it so close. (I had previously noticed the redbud being crowded by this huge maple.) Then I realized there was a HUGE fallen branch in the redbud, almost as big as this whole redbud that is at least 20 feet high. So the outer branches of the limb are resting in the redbud from about 6 feet off the ground to a few feet below the top. And all the way from one side to another. The butt end of the branch is still stuck up in the maple about 40 feet off the ground but the branch it is sitting against is less than 1/2 the diameter. The butt isn't laying across a branch, it is laying parallel. There is a tiny, compared to the broken branch, limb kinda holding it but I really don't see how the butt hasn't come loose unless the weight is mostly on that redbud. I should be able to bend or break anything holding it in the air and that makes me think most of the weight is on that redbud. I know pictures are worth a thousand words but I didn't have my camera with me. Sorry! I like to think about things like this and how I would deal with it. But make no mistake this is a job for a pro with lots of equipment but how would the pros go about doing it safely? I thought and thought about it. This just seems like such a dangerous situation that I don't see a very good way to go about it short of a crane. How the heck do you deal with something so mobile and dangerous as a branch resting between two trees?
