EngineerDude
ArboristSite Operative
This one doesn't belong here either (sorry rec climbers), but I didn't want to clog the other thread with it, but wanted to post it close-by.
Just as a partial response to the many who think I'm nuts and am going to be killed, or maimed or ...., I want it noted that late last week I heard chainsaws down the street. With the thought that since a crew was already in the neighborhood, I might get an attractive price on dropping this aspen I've been talking about (The earlier quote was $350; it was at that point that the idea of doing this myself picked up momentum.) So I went down to watch them and talk price.
After watching them, I didn't ask price. Why? Because I didn't want these bozos on my property.
There were taking down a 50-60 foot pine that was 5 feet from a house, 18 inches at a time. Two guys standing in the working end of a cherry picker, no fall arrest or other PPE apparent. Wearing t-shirts. The guy with the saw was standing on limbs on the opposite side of the tree doing the cutting. No rope, no lanyard, nothing!
So how are they doing this? The guy with the saw is making horizontal cuts, while one of the guys in the lift was holding the top of the log. The chainsaw was progressing through the log, straight toward the holder's chest. Chainsaw guy would stop cutting as he got to the edge of the log, while simultaneously the holder was pulling back on the log to keep the bar from getting pinched.
Then the cutter would move down to another limb. At one point in this process the cutter was standing on a limb no more than what I'd estimate was 1-1/2 inches thick. He bounced on it a bit to make sure it would hold him ... while holding a running saw, a good 30 feet up, and again, no rope.
I couldn't stand to stay and watch!
I will do this infinitely more safely!
Just as a partial response to the many who think I'm nuts and am going to be killed, or maimed or ...., I want it noted that late last week I heard chainsaws down the street. With the thought that since a crew was already in the neighborhood, I might get an attractive price on dropping this aspen I've been talking about (The earlier quote was $350; it was at that point that the idea of doing this myself picked up momentum.) So I went down to watch them and talk price.
After watching them, I didn't ask price. Why? Because I didn't want these bozos on my property.
There were taking down a 50-60 foot pine that was 5 feet from a house, 18 inches at a time. Two guys standing in the working end of a cherry picker, no fall arrest or other PPE apparent. Wearing t-shirts. The guy with the saw was standing on limbs on the opposite side of the tree doing the cutting. No rope, no lanyard, nothing!
So how are they doing this? The guy with the saw is making horizontal cuts, while one of the guys in the lift was holding the top of the log. The chainsaw was progressing through the log, straight toward the holder's chest. Chainsaw guy would stop cutting as he got to the edge of the log, while simultaneously the holder was pulling back on the log to keep the bar from getting pinched.
Then the cutter would move down to another limb. At one point in this process the cutter was standing on a limb no more than what I'd estimate was 1-1/2 inches thick. He bounced on it a bit to make sure it would hold him ... while holding a running saw, a good 30 feet up, and again, no rope.
I couldn't stand to stay and watch!
I will do this infinitely more safely!