large silver maple removal

miko0618 · Jun 16, 2013

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I am sure theres bigger but this is the biggest silver maple I have ever seen. the left side is over a house. the back is over a playground. I had 16 hours of climbing. the base was 6' in diameter. it had 5 stems with the smallest being 24" 4' up from the divide. the largest stem was 30" 4' up. it was 100' at its highest. you can see my first stem tie in in the picture. its set at 73' with a friction saver. so roughly 74'. the tallest and largest stem you can see in the backround. it was pretty cool to remove and pretty sad that it had to go.

miko0618 · Jun 16, 2013

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Jeffsaw · Jun 16, 2013

That is a monster! You and your equipment earned your money on that tree.

groundup · Jun 19, 2013

Well done, Silver Maples can be some nasty trees

miko0618 · Jun 29, 2013

It wouldn't have been too bad had all the stems and limbs been growing up instead of arched. I limb walked the sides of everything because my tie-ins where horizontal more so then vertical. every stem or so had to have its own tie-in. I will say this, I use drt hipthrust and it really sucked on this one. I had to spike/rappel down the back side to where they met so I could climb the next stem or exit the tree. if I went straight down I ended up 50' away from the trunk and lost my entrance. it would have been nice to be able to throw a line to my anchor and climb the rope. I feel an srt system coming my way.

rarefish383 · Jun 30, 2013

My last big tree before I retired was a big Maple. One stem had split off a couple years before, and it still had three left. The customer called on a Wed. and said there is a hurricane coming up the coast and it's supposed to hit Sat. I went and looked at it and the biggest lead was going over the house and wires and had a big long crack that was opening up 6 inches in the gentile breeze while I was there. So, I cheated, and brought in a crane. $814 dollars for 4 hr's, and he had all 3 leads on the ground in time, 4 hr's that is. I'll post pics if you don't scold me about PPE. Oh what the heck, I'll post the pics any way, Joe.