Someone started cutting a tree down for us and hasn't finished the job
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Mine, too. But it's blue, not yellow.
And I think that's 19k on the breaking strength.
And I think that's 19k on the breaking strength.
all my lines are blue. Do they make yellow?
Not that I am aware of. The rope hanging from our problem tree in this thread is yellow.
So far, there is not enough information to determine if a frail rope was broken by a modestly ill informed tree worker, or a magnificently incompetent hack. My money is on the latter status proving true.
EDIT: Yes.
https://www.riggingwarehouse.com/50...w-unity-dynamic-2x-dry-climbing-rope-230.html
So far, there is not enough information to determine if a frail rope was broken by a modestly ill informed tree worker, or a magnificently incompetent hack. My money is on the latter status proving true.
EDIT: Yes.
https://www.riggingwarehouse.com/50...w-unity-dynamic-2x-dry-climbing-rope-230.html
Did OP come back and give us updates?
When he asked for the other HALF of the money so he could buy a pulley and ropes breaking should have been a heads up FOR YOU.
You say he is a nice guy. Might add that he is a nice idiot. (and he has played you and now making you look and feel like an idiot)
You say he has left his equipment on your property.
I would be thinking about having an equipment sale.
Most likely he is not even licensed and bonded. Hope you have good home owners and medical insurance. At least take more pic's for yourself and your future attorney. You might need them for insurance/court claims.
Time has run out for being nice to that guy. Might even contact Judge Judy.
Adds new meaning to the term FLY BY NIGHT idiot.
You say he is a nice guy. Might add that he is a nice idiot. (and he has played you and now making you look and feel like an idiot)
You say he has left his equipment on your property.
I would be thinking about having an equipment sale.
Most likely he is not even licensed and bonded. Hope you have good home owners and medical insurance. At least take more pic's for yourself and your future attorney. You might need them for insurance/court claims.
Time has run out for being nice to that guy. Might even contact Judge Judy.
Adds new meaning to the term FLY BY NIGHT idiot.
Campbellcontractlogging
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It looks like a bad situation to me I’ve never heard of anything like that someone doing a job and not finishing like that. I’m a logger so I really don’t know how a tree service works but still.it’s amazing how little a tree can stay standing with what’s holding but I wouldn’t count on just that I’m kinda just shaking my head at the thought and what’s been commented so far I really hope things go well for y’all.
True. I have a yellow Stable Braid. Hopefully we'll hear back from the OP.
Haplo
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It seems to happen often that someone will join a forum for just one question, and once it's resolved they don't come back to give us the rest of the story
That is almost legend in urban areas. Tree services around here have a well deserved bad reputation. Almost everyone knows that you screen the tree service, inquire for insurance, and use some references.
"Walking off" is not uncommon, and dropping trees on houses and the like isn't unheard of either. There are a lot of guys working in our trade that grew up breaking rules and taking risks. Then they discover the need to make a living, and tree service seems like an obvious fit.
Except that they don't know what they are doing, make mistakes, then they run, never to be seen again.
I'm thinking an 8 lb. sledge might solve the problem. Those wedges aren't driven, rather they appear to have only been palmed or maybe tapped with too light of a hammer/axe... It still has a lot of small branches so it isn't too far gone...
Which is it.
I'd drop it by myself no problem if as you said it could be laid out in the woods and there was no risk of any dead branches being flung back by nearby trees.
Looks 80 to me, it's a bit down into that low spot.
Probably a retired climbing rope he took from the company he is/or was working for.
As another said, wonder if he isn't now locked up.
Certainly some shady stuff going on.
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Drugs come to mind when I read he took money before finishing .
Bird is the word
Yep.
If he just got in over his head and had a conscience he would have been in close contact with them.
Wish she would have been close by, looks like a fun one to me.
That's literally funny. The guy broke a rope trying to pull it over, and we haven't seen the opposite side of the tree.
I'd bet money that you couldn't solve that tree problem with just a sledge hammer.
Even if you add a chainsaw to the mix of permitted correction tools, until we see the backside of that tree, we don't know what we are looking at for a solution.
I laugh when I hear the licensed and bonded term in my area. I have yet to have any person be able to show me what it truly means. Here all the bonded part means is you carry adequate liability insurance to cover your rear end if you make a mistake. The license part is a bit shady. A little over 20 years ago I had a house in a city across in Iowa. It was going to sit vacant for awhile so I could do major repairs. It had a 60amp panel and meter in a closet that needed pulled . Of course 200amp is required by code if changes are made. This would require the power company to run a new service to the new meter base. I knew doing this would trigger a city inspector to poke around. I called the city to inquire about the process. The woman I spoke with said I could not do the work myself as I needed to be licensed. I asked her what the process was to get a "license" and she could not tell me as she had no idea. All she knew was I had to be "licensed". I pursued the issue and finally got to someone who said I needed to take an exam. I said that was fine when and where is it? They could not answer. All they knew was I needed to take an exam. This went on for awhile and I just did the work that was most needed on interior meter base. It passed a yearly inspection for 14 years. In March of 2017 the house was hit by a tornado and took 30% of the upstairs off. At that point the electrical was not much concern.
I am sure some areas do require some sort of a license but here it is shady. As for proper insurance that is a must.
I covered that. A homeowner lacks the expertise to know how expert someone is. I was attempting to address the fact that the hack that inspired this thread was proposing to do that tree solo.
While it is possible to find a skilled tree worker that could drop that tree, I wouldn't recommend that they allow it to be done. The best expert in the world will still recommend having some help.
I've had plenty of jobs where one climber could go handle the request, but I always send two. I'm not gonna have anybody get injured by bad luck or stupidity that doesn't at least have an observer to call for help.
Let's go down to the arboricultural injuries forum and see how many dead tree workers we can find that were working by themselves...
Did anybody say "just a sledge hammer?" In light of all the speculation about the rope that doesn't lend much support to the broken rope argument. Given that even rank amateurs know about "notches" there is high probability that "A tree person with 10 years experience" would have made some kind of face cut that is not visible in the photo offered... Given the position of the rope the wedge on the left could be hiding the face cut from view! Take a ride over there and tell us what you see!
