TreeSensible
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Oak removal at Customer's lake house, bottom of longish ziz-zag staircase down to the lakeside. It's right next to the railing and doesn't seem practical just to drop it, not to mention it might now be safe even to do that. Looks worse from these pics-from-below than it did from above. Momentum. Inertia. Hubris. Hmmm. Maybe I should get input. Ideas appreciated. Main question: is it foolish to climb this? A self propelled spider lift would be great, but I don't have one so will be giving up the job if I decide not to climb it.
My ideas:
a. Get weight off it.
b. Tie in from a large tree above and then through the target canopy to come at it straight from below so not all my weight will be there as I reduce the top.
c. Maybe winch the thing up a touch (200lbs worth, my approx loaded weight) from the tree above. I can hear someone: "if 200lbs matters, dont climb it."
d. Strap it. Bind it. Never done that before. Seems like the most relevant once I get past thinking about taking the weight off.
e. Possibly avoid tying in to this tree at all since I have the tree above and good prospects for an anchor below. I have tied in off a line between two trees before, but it was sort of horizontal, and not between two trees at dramatically different elevations. Then again, I now have the GRCS so it could be a pretty tight rope to use.
I hope you think this case is worth a post. Cheers.
My ideas:
a. Get weight off it.
b. Tie in from a large tree above and then through the target canopy to come at it straight from below so not all my weight will be there as I reduce the top.
c. Maybe winch the thing up a touch (200lbs worth, my approx loaded weight) from the tree above. I can hear someone: "if 200lbs matters, dont climb it."
d. Strap it. Bind it. Never done that before. Seems like the most relevant once I get past thinking about taking the weight off.
e. Possibly avoid tying in to this tree at all since I have the tree above and good prospects for an anchor below. I have tied in off a line between two trees before, but it was sort of horizontal, and not between two trees at dramatically different elevations. Then again, I now have the GRCS so it could be a pretty tight rope to use.
I hope you think this case is worth a post. Cheers.