We have maples dying. The local term for the disease is Maple Wilt. Wouldn't you know it, after I have a house put here, a maple dies within house reach. So, a former hooktender's son, now in the excavation business, wanted to take charge.
He just turned 18, and is a whiz on the equipment and seems to know a bit about trees too. But, as he said, things did not go as planned this afternoon. A 20 minute job turned into a 2 hour job. I took a couple of videos of the big tree going down. It was forked at the bottom. He used his 440 with a 32 inch bar, and an excavator wedge.
This is fork number 1. It hung up in a fir.
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Here is fork number 2.
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The last one, not videoed, also had to be coaxed down. But, as somebody here says, trees went down, nobody got hurt, and I have some firewood.
One more scary note, when I came in the house after the falling, the power was off. I immediately began to have visions of lots of dollars flowing away to electricians, but it turned out to be an area wide outage, not caused by the tree removal. Whew!