calamari
ArboristSite Operative
First let me say I'm not going to use a ladder on this one.
This is on a friends property near where Grizz55chev lives. It's a dead oak that was broken off in the last snow storm that is about 30" DBH. The break is between 20' and 25' up on the trunk and when it fell over it fell into a small fir thicket getting its main fork around a 10" fir bending it over and thus pressing the break back into the trees trunk. The place where the fork has stopped on the fir is maybe 25' up in the air and the oak has a number of branches fanning out from that point on both sides like a fan because some are bent up by other firs. There is a lot of pressure pushing back against the trees trunk.
I got a heavy line over the broken part and tried jerking it down using all my cables and a snatch block with the pulling force being down and to the side while I pulled directly away from the tree. All that happened was that I broke my 5/16 cable that was the weak link in my setup. I couldn't get very close to the tree with my truck so I had to string together all the cables and heavy rope I had.
You can't get a bucket truck to the tree w/o a huge amount of tree removal and expense. There are no other trees close to the tree that aren't angled away that would allow a climber to rope over to it. His experienced and insured tree climber won't touch it. There's a house close by so no explosives. It's coming down.
This is on a friends property near where Grizz55chev lives. It's a dead oak that was broken off in the last snow storm that is about 30" DBH. The break is between 20' and 25' up on the trunk and when it fell over it fell into a small fir thicket getting its main fork around a 10" fir bending it over and thus pressing the break back into the trees trunk. The place where the fork has stopped on the fir is maybe 25' up in the air and the oak has a number of branches fanning out from that point on both sides like a fan because some are bent up by other firs. There is a lot of pressure pushing back against the trees trunk.
I got a heavy line over the broken part and tried jerking it down using all my cables and a snatch block with the pulling force being down and to the side while I pulled directly away from the tree. All that happened was that I broke my 5/16 cable that was the weak link in my setup. I couldn't get very close to the tree with my truck so I had to string together all the cables and heavy rope I had.
You can't get a bucket truck to the tree w/o a huge amount of tree removal and expense. There are no other trees close to the tree that aren't angled away that would allow a climber to rope over to it. His experienced and insured tree climber won't touch it. There's a house close by so no explosives. It's coming down.