Removing a Storm fallen Cottonwood from Sanford lake

[mic687]

This is a cottonwood that blew into Sanford lake near me. I took the job to remove three Red oaks on the corner of the cabin and a small ash that leaned way over the lake. The owner asked if I was intrested in removing this cottonwood and I did not have any idea how I would do it, the owner who is a maintenance supervisor at a canning company came up with this and I worked on it with him. We cut a 6"x6" hole in the base of the tree and inserted an ibeam into it, I then removed a chunk of the tree to give us some winching room about 7'. We then bolted a 12,000 lb winch to the beam and winched and cut until it was removed. I have to say I had my doubts but it worked really well and this was a 60' tree with a 27" dbh. I want to add we used a remote comtrol winch for safety.View attachment 298316View attachment 298317View attachment 298318View attachment 298319c

 

[TheJollyLogger]

Gotta say, pretty creative, nice job.

 

[mikewhite85]

Nice!

 

[treemandan]

I think you went the wrong way with it. Looks like it would have been easier to christen it and send it out to sea.

How long can you effectively run that winch on a battery alone?

 

[mic687]

I think you went the wrong way with it. Looks like it would have been easier to christen it and send it out to sea.

How long can you effectively run that winch on a battery alone?

Yes Sir that was my first thought but the water is only 4' deep and he has a cabin cruiser type boat he wants to park there. The thing came out eaiser than I thought it would, but if you think cottonwoods stink normally this thing was orders of magnitude worse. On the winch I don't know how long it will run but I do know how long it did run which was long enough. That was a small deep cell battery from the boat and we did mabe 5 or 6, 7' pulls and I think it was getting tapped out. I thought the owners idea of boring the stem and using it to pull was pretty cool.

 

[mic687]

Thanks guy's this was pretty cool to do and worked really well.

 

[Zale]

Nice job.