Just to update the old post and fill everybody in.
These pics are of when I went to insp it. The rip outs ( 3 main low limbs) where 25 feet up. I could stick my arm through the trunk.
Please see the old post called " ripped out poplar for more pics of the tree. It ended up I used a crane, some stuff I bombed while being on the hook but it was down in 2 hours ( waiting for the chpping to be done) with two 10 and 1/2 foot mill logs, minimum dia 27 inches solid all the way through. I will trade up that for some more dried walnut boards.
I watched this tree in 50 mph winds and knew I could not shock this tree taking it down with out a crane as much as the wind was but that doesn't have anything to do with the fact that once you climb past the rot, that that is all you've got. I could have definatlety roped this tree down without it breaking but even with all my safety backups and being real careful it still would not negate the fact it would not mean anything because the whole thing would be relying on the whole operation being totally supported by a weakend, rotted stem and NOTHING ELSE. That is not the way to go, like an orange on a toothpick, it doesn't hold up very long at all.
So how do you back up things like weak trunks? Lots of ways, but just make sure you do back it up. Here is another poplar.
I guyed this one to 2 diferent trees before I climbed it. Here is one of the support trees I used.
The other
They were in perfect spots to utilize them, if I couldn't have supported this tree I would have walked to the nearest crane. Once supported it was over pretty quick.
I about **** when I saw this.I took this picture after i moved the saws off the sidewalk .I moved my Stihls and ragged the groundies out for putting the saws there and made them come move the Huskies post haste ( like NOW m and f'er!), they managed to spill something.
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