Question about cutting a leaning tree...

[Stubby]

I even cut a heart shaped piece of one of the branches and made a table (and chairs) out of it for our granddaughter's second birthday...









I made a couple of branding irons with her name, then practiced using them...







Rich

 

[Stubby]

Not sure how someone that has dropped 100 trees comes up with cutting downward into that stem. Bore cutting isn’t a technique for an amateur either. I’d hire that job out if I were you.

See post #9...

Rich

 

[Stubby]

Yep. They threw a line up there, pulled a rope up, ascended it with a saw, limbed it and topped it. And nobody died, right? And you got a bunch of wood. Nice going!

So… when you get a good result in life… wash rinse repeat. Maybe call those guys again… get all that wood. Don’t end up getting hurt. That would suck, eh?

Yep...now that it's been explained to me that this (partial) job that I was going to attempt is much more risky than I thought it was, that's what we'll do.

Thank you for your replies.

Rich

 

[Chucksta]

Good call. on getting a Tree Service to drop it. If they're just dropping it, and you're processing all the wood, it shouldn't be that expensive. Plus, you'll have a lot of immediately burnable, or sell-able firewood.

I dropped 20 to 30 trees on Saturday ( some kind of Pine blight ), with my neighbour. Some we dropped onto the road, and chopped up, some we dropped into the woods, and left them as is. A couple were bent over, like your picture, those, we just walked away from those .. it just wasn't worth the risk.. at all .. I'll dice them up when nature drops them to where I can deal with them with my feet on the ground.

Keep safe.