sorry about my bad paint skillz. hopefully you can get the point i am trying to make. these are hickory and t.i.p. is water oak. i turned this tree down today after climbing a bit to get a better look. the only available t.i.p is illustrated, which is already uncomfortably far away. dbh on split tree we are supposed to remove is ~3'. dbh on tree its laying in is ~1'. dbh of t.i.p tree is ~1.5'. i climbed to t.i.p and realized that i'd have to take #2 before i take #1. my line would be over #1, at about 45 degree angle. there's nothing to rope to except t.i.p, which is far too flimsy. the split is much worse than i make it out to be in the pic and is bent and partly broken already. the limb the tree is hanging on is about 4" diameter and the point where it is supporting the tree we are removing is out about 2 feet from the crotch. i am unsure how much weight the limb is supporting the tree and how much it is standing on its own. to me, its a crane job, but there's too many trees in the way to get the crane close enough. company owner called a friend of mine who has a bucket truck and they are over there doing it right now supposedly. even once the brush is gone, if the trunk doesnt lift out of the crotch, what are you going to do then? if i could have taken #1 first, leaving me a clear way to limbwalk out to #2, i would have done that and gone from there. any ideas?
