Man..........I'm gone for another week or so, and I'm 17 pages behind again? You guys have got too much time on your hands LOL!
Question, again, keep in mind, I'm not a professional cutter by any means, although I do consider myself half-way decent with a saw. I've got a tree at my house in WI that's leaning right towards a corner of the house. It's a conifer (I'm not sure which type exactly, maybe a Jack Pine), that I want to take out before a storm does it for me. I've only got about a 6' gap between that corner of the house and some other hardwood trees that are healthy and I don't want to damage. So, I'm thinking about "directing it" with my tractor.
The only problem is, my wife doesn't want to have anything to do with driving the tractor, and she doesn't know how to use a saw. No friends in the area either. So, I'm thinking that if I get in the tractor first, and use my long arborist's rope attached to the tree, to initially pull the tree away from the house, in the direction that I need it to fall, and just put enough tension on the line to see the tractor pulling the tree in the direction that I want it to fall in, and then STOP pulling with the tractor, and put the brake on, keeping the pressure on the line, then go to the tree, skip the notch completely, but start cutting the tree with the back cut, and when I get deep enough into the cut that I can see the gap opening up from the tension on the line from the tractor, and stop cutting. Then get back into the tractor, and pull it over exactly where I need it to go. Do you guys think that would work?? I'm open to all feefeedback.