Best felling ideas on this Persimmon tree?

[ReggieT]

I'm thinking just attach my logging chain to the lowest broken log and pull and the other should topple right on top.
Then just fell the standing tree with a simple notch and back cut.
What would you guys suggest?
I'm better @ firewood bucking than felling!
Persimmon tree, approx 24" in diameter, top broken off by storm. The "log" still standing is about 12 feet tall and about 24" in diameter. At the place the tree broke it branched into 2 trunks and they are about 8 to 12" in diameter and 15 or so feet long. The 2 trunks are still barely attached to the vertical trunk.

Thanks
Reg

 

[esshup]

That would be my plan. I'd be too worried about them coming off of the stump when I was cutting.

 

[ReggieT]

That would be my plan. I'd be too worried about them coming off of the stump when I was cutting.

Yep me too...the owner thinks he can drop the tree with both broken logs still attached and... sawing from beneath the trouble area!
I told him he must have a "Death Wish!"

 

[robson1015]

What a shame to lose that tree....I'm sure it was a deer magnet. I have a small one and the deer flock to it....good luck

 

[Greenthorn]

Persimmon is some dam good firewood, I would pull it with a tractor.

 

[TKeller]

That is about as big as they get up here in Kentucky. And if it is solid persimmon makes good firewood and splits easy when gree. I cut down about 5 this spring from about 14 to 20" in diameter. On cutting that tree down, if a tractor and chain wasn't an option, it looks like the top one in resting on the botton so you could buck most of it as is. Then saw the bottom one about half way up from the underneath side. Then it would drop down but who knows for sure. Your option is safer.......

 

[Fred Wright]

Yep. Wrap a chain or cable around 'em, pull 'em down with the tractor. Doesn't appear there's much wood left to hold those logs in place anyway.

 

[Oldman47]

If you have a pole saw, mine is purely manual, use it to nip the remaining attachment wood and let those logs fall on their own. Once on the ground treat them like any other logs. The remaining trunk section may not want to fall easily unless you make a larger than normal face cut. Even then it may need wedging to push it over.

 

[msmith]

I'm thinking just attach my logging chain to the lowest broken log and pull and the other should topple right on top.
Then just fell the standing tree with a simple notch and back cut.
What would you guys suggest?
I'm better @ firewood bucking than felling!
Persimmon tree, approx 24" in diameter, top broken off by storm. The "log" still standing is about 12 feet tall and about 24" in diameter. At the place the tree broke it branched into 2 trunks and they are about 8 to 12" in diameter and 15 or so feet long. The 2 trunks are still barely attached to the vertical trunk.

Thanks
Reg
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Assuming you haven't done it yet, I believe you're on the right track. Using a tractor to pull them off would be the safest. You could try the pole saw method, but it looks like to do it safely, there is a fence in the way. If you were to do it from the other side, those tops could take a funny bounce, roll, or kick and you would be in there kind of close. Like Oldman said, the stump may not want to fall and you may need to use the farm tractor to pull it over IF you have long enough chain.

 

[RAYINTOMBALL]

My first question would be what size tractor do you have. It's amazing how much strength even a small amount of hold wood has. Anything bigger than a 70 hp should do. Be careful those can be dangerous.

 

[ReggieT]

My first question would be what size tractor do you have. It's amazing how much strength even a small amount of hold wood has. Anything bigger than a 70 hp should do. Be careful those can be dangerous.

Owner may have a tractor...I'll just use my 03 Tundra with extra long logging chain...and be down the road with a load rounds in about 45 minutes!