Wedge and pull or jack?

[NCfirewood]

Ok here goes, I am trying to decide between cabling the tops together, wedging the one close to the haouse and using the other to pull it or just drop the one farthest from the house and then jack the one closest. Opinions welc ome.

 

[Westboastfaller]

Only you know your limits... I hope you do? Qualified people can't do a proper assessment unless they walk around it. You do what will be 100% or you don't do it at all.
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[Westboastfaller]

You need to come '180°' off the lean, it looks limb tied. What is your experience level if you don't mind me asking?

 

[Westboastfaller]

Looks like all your weight is running up the left side of the trailer. If that's the case, what would a jack do? It only has so much movment until it breaks and gravity spins back around. Again! noboby can tell but it looks that way

 

[bitzer]

Tree looks a little small to put a jack in.

 

[Oldmaple]

Wedge and pull if you got any chance at all. Directly against the lean on to whatever is under the blue tarp it looks like. Must be no rot in stem and I would recommend that you have your insurance paid up.

 

[Woody912]

If I had to cut that one on the life of my grandsons I would have at least 2 sets of of chain/cable/rope/comealong and 2 very trusted friends. Or I'd invite the ex over to watch tv while I chaired it backwards! Your results may vary

 

[NCfirewood]

You can't see it in the first photo but the tree is weighted and actually leaning a little more towards where I was standing when I took the picture. I will post another angle. As for the tarp, the top is fastened to my deck and covering my seasoned wood. Haven't built my wood shed yet. I will have to move half of the stack. As for experience, I am not a professional arborist by any means but I have been running a chainsaw since I was 8 or 9 and felling trees since my teens. I am 39 now. I have actaully successfully removed several that were worse than this. Including the third leg of this tree when it actually broke towards the house and deck in a storm. We were fortunate then. This tree is wreaking havoc on my pool and threatening the house so it must come down. It is small for a jack. 15" near the base. With further thought, I may be better off removing the limb/top that is over the house by pulling with a cable and my truck and then the larger on that runs in front of and over the house. If I can get those down safely, then wedging would do the rest. This is tomorrows project so I will be posting photos of either the tree where I want it in my yard or disaster. I won't leave you guys hanging.

 

[PhilMcWoody]

Looks a bit dodgy, Troy. I wish I could help, but I'm a just a humble H/o! so I'd just git ya in trouble. I could not handle it without a bucket truck and a pole saw to reduce the trouble bit by bit. Or in other words, I'd hire a pro.The risk would not be worth it to me.

 

[TheJollyLogger]

You don't have a tree. You have two trees. Treating them as one is a recipe for disaster. It's a climbing job all the way.

 

[Ferguson system]

A rope and two heavy duty ratchet straps should fix that problem. tie the rope as high as you can get it on the stem, and make knots on the rope to hook up the straps. Tighten one ratchet strap at a time.

 

[NCfirewood]

Thank you for all of the input guys.

 

[Zale]

Well, are you done yet? If not, I'm guessing you're at the stage where "what do I do next?"

 

[NCfirewood]

Success

 

[NCfirewood]

Wedge and pull worked great. Bonus is it landed on the wood pile where I run the splitter so double blessing

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[Agent Orange]

Nice work, way to prove em wrong.

 

[NCfirewood]

Ah I wasn't out to prove anything. Only reason I posted the thread was to see if any of the guys that do this for a living had any advice. I was confident that it would end up right where it is laying but sometimes others can spot potential issues pretty quick. Thank the Lord it all worked out.

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[Zale]

Nice job. I had my doubts.

 

[moondoggie]

Nice job!

 

[Weber_Steaks]

Test post

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