So I have this tree...

[IchWarriorMkII]

... Its just a cottonwood tree...

Pretty normal, yeah?













Think it needs to be cut down?

Im asking you guys before I call for a quote to take it down.

 

[chowdozer]

Is that a LPG tank under it? If you don't take it down, I'd figger some way to guarantee a branch won't knock the regulator off or damage the tank.

 

[IchWarriorMkII]

Yea, thats a propane tank.



Hey! There is someone...

Come here... I gots a question to ask you.

Yeah, I think it needs to come down.

 

[lees trees]

your gonna miss that one. whats the life span of one of those cottonwoods? What can be done with it? thanks

 

[ropensaddle]

Tell the raccoons to move and cut that

 

[sILlogger]

cottonwoods can get pretty old, and pretty big.. i have but several great big cottonwoods...hate cutting the stuff....but they do get big fast and alot of people have them as yard trees around here

 

[rb_in_va]

Just get inside and push real hard.

 

[oldsaw]

cottonwoods can get pretty old, and pretty big.. i have but several great big cottonwoods...hate cutting the stuff....but they do get big fast and alot of people have them as yard trees around here

Most of the time they die relatively young and rotten....and huge. Rottenwoods. Dad had 30 or so big ones on the farm when I was young. 1 or 2 were solid, the rest were hollow. Storm took out most of them a few years ago.

Mark

 

[Sprig]

That be a big ol' rotten tree alright! Nice pics! Hm, sortta thinkin' what rb said........move the propane tank outta the way, rig a nice long 1/2+ cable high as you can, then rent a big towtruck for and hour (or tractor with a winch, something like that) and yard it over..... aw nm, just goofy this morning.
They get really big up here too and usually are found growing along rivers in gravelly soil. A large stand of them on the Cowichan River where I used to swim alot but all of them are straight trunked up to at least 40-50ft and don't rot like that from what I've seen. (Do they ever make a mess when the fluff flies, stuff gets into everything!)
Anyways Ich, hope you get some shots of the removal fer us curious picture lovin' folks
:chainsawguy:

 

[lees trees]

any value

fast growing quick to rot. is that tree 30years or closer to 100 even my field guide is vague. thanks

 

[rreidnauer]

I figure about 5 pounds of Tannerite should do the trick.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYCvW9DTQkw :jawdrop:

 

[SawTroll]

HMX

 

[sawinredneck]

I am thinking from the first pic the house is to the left of the propane tank?
I would call it a hazard myself, a good windstorm and the branch on the right side could go. I hate Cottonwoods, ver dangerous treest, always hollow, terible to try and notch, and you never know when it's going to let go on the backcuts!
Not sure I like th cable and pull idea so well, seen that go wrong and the truck turns into a flying projectile! I don't think it would take that large of a saw to drop it, just piece it down, if you can move the tank and the house isn't in the way. Then take the stump out a chunk at a time. BUT, I am not there looking at it, if you are not comfortable, hire it out.

 

[RaisedByWolves]

I figure about 5 pounds of Tannerite should do the trick.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYCvW9DTQkw :jawdrop:

No need for that, just a .45 slug into the seam of the tank should bring it down.





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[ShoerFast]

I am thinking from the first pic the house is to the left of the propane tank?
I would call it a hazard myself, a good windstorm and the branch on the right side could go. I hate Cottonwoods, ver dangerous treest, always hollow, terible to try and notch, and you never know when it's going to let go on the backcuts!
Not sure I like th cable and pull idea so well, seen that go wrong and the truck turns into a flying projectile! I don't think it would take that large of a saw to drop it, just piece it down, if you can move the tank and the house isn't in the way. Then take the stump out a chunk at a time. BUT, I am not there looking at it, if you are not comfortable, hire it out.

Yup!

Better to take it with the gas valve "off" when your watching, then when it takes out the tank out when your sleeping. Spring snows seems to add into the equation for taking cottonwoods out, it can still snow here early May, sometimes after there leaves are out, giving the tree more weight then it can bear.

Cottonwoods (aka: rottonwood, a better name) are about as worthless as MTV, no value, I would rather trip over cottonwood on the way to a good firewood pile then burn it.

From the pictures, it dose look like a tree that you might consider taking out yourself? As much as I value them, there a fairly predictable tree, and easy to persuade by taking some mass off of the tricky sides (over the tank) to drop were you want it. Moving the tank is not that hard , and also an option?

 

[clearance]

Cottonwoods suck, they fall where they want, you can't swing them, forget about that. Propane tanks can take a hit just not the valve.

 

[IchWarriorMkII]

Well, the tree is coming down, We have half of it peiced down. Currently we are holding for weather, its not fun to be in the middle of a tree in a wind storm.


Pics to follow when we are done.