The recent storm in the northeast was pretty brutal and a lot of people lost trees. We unfortunately had one of our beautiful 25' crabapple trees topple over. The tree was very healthy but the branches tended to spread in one direction to reach sunlight creating an imbalance with the heavy snow/ice mixture. There was about 1/3 of the root ball exposed when the snow melted and no major damage to the trunk. Only 1 or 2 medium branches were damaged somehow. I have been piling snow on top of the exposed roots to keep them cold and wet.
There are 2 other good size trees that make a triangle with this tree and the tree fell away from them (see picture). It seems like attaching cables to the other 2 trees after standing the toppled tree would work perfectly... The other trees are a 40' Blue Spruce and an identical 25' Crabapple tree. I have a V6 tacoma with the towing package to possibly help get the tree into place. I was thinking a combination of a heavy duty cable ratcheting system attached to the other 2 trees (or the telephone pole) in tandem with a chain attached to my truck could lift the tree into place and then leave the cables (with some sort of protection for the trunks) to hold the tree from falling again and leave the cables in place for 5 years or so... But I don't really know what I'm doing and looking for advice. I attached a birds eye diagram. Thanks for any advice!!!!
There are 2 other good size trees that make a triangle with this tree and the tree fell away from them (see picture). It seems like attaching cables to the other 2 trees after standing the toppled tree would work perfectly... The other trees are a 40' Blue Spruce and an identical 25' Crabapple tree. I have a V6 tacoma with the towing package to possibly help get the tree into place. I was thinking a combination of a heavy duty cable ratcheting system attached to the other 2 trees (or the telephone pole) in tandem with a chain attached to my truck could lift the tree into place and then leave the cables (with some sort of protection for the trunks) to hold the tree from falling again and leave the cables in place for 5 years or so... But I don't really know what I'm doing and looking for advice. I attached a birds eye diagram. Thanks for any advice!!!!