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When the crayons get broke out, you know things are getting serious!
Duplicate post.
I accidentally posted twice!
Sorry guys! 
And try to to post the same post twice! 
Quantum entanglement….lol
I started to draw some pics and take pics of them to post. When you've been around felling a long time you learn some cool tricks. But, I wouldn't want to encourage people who have never done it to try it in their yard tomorrow. Most of our work was in the high end neighborhoods of Potomac, Bethesda-Chevy Chase, around DC. There were homes that had Azealia beds 100 years old. Azealia's 10-12 feet high, and just as wide, grown right up against the base of a big old Oak. You had several choices, bring in a big crane if you could get it close, dig the Azealia up till the log was gone, or just smash it and tell the home owner there was no other way. We would have our climber come down till he was just a little above the Azealia, make a wide conventional notch. Put a baseball bat sized limb across the notch, almost out to the bark. When the log came over and hit that limb it would jump out, over the flower bed and land flat on the ground. It would not nose dive and make a big divot. It would compress the ground, but we new how to fix that with out sod or seed.Yes and no. The tree can flex and bounce off the stump when loading up with spring into another tree or it may not all depending on size of both trees, angles at collision, and distance between fall tree and standing tree. A lot of variables involved. A higher back cut isn't 100% insurance against the treeshooting back, but it often dose prevent it! It's better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it.
Cut safe, stay sharp, and be aware!View attachment 994239
Had to be time travel. In real life, I'm so old and fat, and slow, I have a hard time getting my right foot to pass my left.
I would never try and swing even a slight leaner over a building or any other urban structure. I have however lifted trees leaning heavy over houses with jacks assisted with wedges and even just wedges. I've had over a dozen wedges in four foot trees leaning towards houses before. With three or four different stacks across the back cut assisted with bigger singles and lifted the tree over just fine. Of course I would do a few bore tests first. Making sure the base was solid and sound! Then I'd beat my guts out 
and make sure to leave a big hinge holding until the tree commits!
No! Not I! Working off a ladder is just asking for it! Plain and simple!
So, do you tie into the tree just above, or just below the last wedge?No! Not I! Working off a ladder is just asking for it! Plain and simple!
Cut safe, stay sharp, be aware! And never do tree work off a dang ladder!
See, that's what happens when the price of steel goes up and you recycle all of your old wedges. I had to go out and spend $1300 bucks on a 660 and a couple different bars and an other hundred or so on a mill, just to crack a White Pine in half to make a table for my cabin.
Did you do something wrong?? LolSee, that's what happens when the price of steel goes up and you recycle all of your old wedges. I had to go out and spend $1300 bucks on a 660 and a couple different bars and an other hundred or so on a mill, just to crack a White Pine in half to make a table for my cabin.
Once a yr whether you need to or not.
It sounds like you have a fulltime job of this. I'm old but envious, enjjoying my tree cutting all the time.
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