Professional recommendations dropping Huge dead oak

[Cricket]

From the photo's it looks like you could set a lifeline in one of the healthy neighbouring trees even two if you want to get real fancy. Otherwise hire the madman in this video.

Sorry, I'm not very technogolical. I believe the ratchet straps around the trunk are to improve it's structural integrity and I think that is an anchor lines further down.

Okay, that's dude's certifiable. Amazing to watch, but nuts, from the way that dust is flying from the inside, I wouldn't trust that trunk any farther than I could throw it, intact.

 

[Cricket]

That is some serious Billy Madison **** there...

My late mate put the end of the ladder in the Bobcat bucket - it wasn't going anywhere, absolutely stable.

Of course, the hydraulics were iffy, so he'd prop the bucket up with a 2x4 - but the ladder wasn't going to shift...

<face/palm>

 

[Cricket]

Excellent post. That is exactly my train of thought.

How does the saying go?
There are old arborists and bold arborists but there are very few old, bold arborists!

Yeah. My late husband trimmed for utilities and the city for over thirty years - and a bad dead one between two houses killed him dead.

 

[TheJollyLogger]

Yeah. My late husband trimmed for utilities and the city for over thirty years - and a bad dead one between two houses killed him dead.

So sorry, Cricket. We have lost too many over the years...

 

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By having a person at each end of the rope saw, the two working together can be a fairly good distance apart. Need more distance, add more rope.

I took down a large horizontal branch from an oak tree solo using a rope saw, with the rope going up over the branch, to a pulley on the other side and back to me so I could manage all of the sawing action on my own without being anywhere under the branch.

 

[pdqdl]

I've never used a rope saw. Are we talking about the ones that just look like chainsaw chain, attached to ropes?

Or something different?

 

[Aknutter]

I've never used a rope saw. Are we talking about the ones that just look like chainsaw chain, attached to ropes?

Or something different?

Google rope saw...many different brands and styles ...great visual

 

[TheJollyLogger]

I am a little geographically impaired in my ability to drop that tree. I do like the Quercus mortuus, you even got your Latin grammar right.

Not all arborists are knuckle draggers... res ipsa loquitur...

 

[TheJollyLogger]

I'm not flexible enough to drag my knuckles on the ground. I sure wish I could, though. Very handy talent for those hard to reach branches while aloft.

As to "res ipsa loquitur". Is that what you chant to the client as you race away from their house, a freshly dropped spar emerging from their roof?

Not suggesting you would, of course, but that's what crossed my mind when I looked it up.

No, that would be when a newbie climber thinks he has a new way to rig, and then it would be more appropriate to say " quod erat demonstrandum!!"

 

[Cogito]

I actually refer to one of my climber mates as the orangutan. He has the most ridiculously long arms, which I feel gives him an unfair advantage in climbing. It seems you are happy to make jokes about other people, while you don't take jokes about yourself very well.

 

[Brufab]

Whatever happened to just cutting down a tree? Fell to the lean and beforehand cut any trees that it may get hung up in first

 

[calamari]

The OP wanted to know about how best to deal with his 60" diameter dead oak that was in the way. I can reduce his problem by almost 50% because I doubt that that tree is 5' in diameter. 36-40" would be my guess based on the size of the leaves on the ground in front of it and the needles on the saplings growing near it. The area of a circle that is 40" in diameter, my top guess, is 1,257 sq. in. A 60" diameter circle has 2,827 sq. in. so over a 50% reduction in how much you have to cut through. A 20" bar can handle a 40" tree but would be a struggle with a 60" tree requiring a larger saw. His avatar shows two saws of indeterminate bar length so he might need a new saw or to borrow one from his no brother good in law.
Maybe he could get two Jesuits and and a double cross cut saw and let them cut it down?
I think the OP has lost all interest in this thread.

 

[Cogito]

The OP wanted to know about how best to deal with his 60" diameter dead oak that was in the way. I can reduce his problem by almost 50% because I doubt that that tree is 5' in diameter. 36-40" would be my guess based on the size of the leaves on the ground in front of it and the needles on the saplings growing near it. The area of a circle that is 40" in diameter, my top guess, is 1,257 sq. in. A 60" diameter circle has 2,827 sq. in. so over a 50% reduction in how much you have to cut through. A 20" bar can handle a 40" tree but would be a struggle with a 60" tree requiring a larger saw. His avatar shows two saws of indeterminate bar length so he might need a new saw or to borrow one from his no brother good in law.
Maybe he could get two Jesuits and and a double cross cut saw and let them cut it down?
I think the OP has lost all interest in this thread.

Sorry, it will take me a while to convert that into metric.

 

[Brufab]

I was just hoping to see how the op did on the tree. Let's hope he revisits the thread with a successful felling experience with knowledge gained

 

[TheJollyLogger]

It's an easy conversion. Multiply the amount you want to convert by the number of times a Western Fence Lizard has run up your leg under your pants while bucking wood on the ground and then divide it by how many hairs you have left on the top of your head. If you are dividing by zero for example it's best to be wearing a Teflon suit as sparking can occur.

Cal, did you get that oak down? I really hope you didn't start whacking at those firs under tension.

 

[Cogito]

I thought it was FR3 who was trying to take the oak down.

 

[Stihl a grasshopper]

When you are afraid of limbs falling on you, you can always fell a tree remotely......

There you go! Just bore into the middle and put some tannerite in it!

 

[Cogito]

There you go! Just bore into the middle and put some tannerite in it!

But we don't seem to know who's tree it is. I think people might get upset if you blew up the wrong tree.

 

[Cogito]

Maybe this is good for the OP. At least he knows now that arborists are a bunch of **** ups who can't agree on anything.

 

[Stihl a grasshopper]

Philosophically, You'se guys are rather far afield from the logistics of Quercus mortuus reduction.

IE: These comments are not getting that dead oak any closer to the ground. I wandered down that road for a while, but I'm trying to stay on track.

Thought I wound up back in the off topic form again!