Tree that should of been removed months ago.

[The Lawn Shark]

I removed some dead wood and some larger limbs that came out of the leaders on the house side back in the fall. Came across a huge crack in the leader that you now see on the ground which broke out of the tree a couple nights ago...Back in the fall I suggested to remove the tree and they told me they would once they saved up.... Anyways, they call me and said that part of the tree fell out and its a hazard...show up to this...
I qouted them 5 grand back in the fall to remove it......So I show up and give them a price to take down the rest of the leader that broke out and get the other cracked up leader down. We got the leader that broke out the rest of the way on the ground..They then decided that they would go ahead and have the whole tree removed...So I started up the tree to take the rest of the broken leader out and theres two more huge cracks on two other leaders on the house side...so I'm hanging there in the tree looking at the whole situation and told myself this is two much risk without a crane...
Got out the tree and got ahold of another company that uses cranes everyday....there going to do it for the same price I qouted of 5grand.
I can say this has been a first for me, backing out of a job. I've done a couple crane gigs but nothing of this size...
Hers a link to the pics in my deadwooding of this tree back in the fall.
http://www.arboristsite.com/showthread.php?t=128670
http://www.arboristsite.com/showthread.php?t=128686
www.arboristsite.com/showthread.php?t=128571

 

[The Lawn Shark]

Hey oldirty how long you think you and your crew would take to take this monster down...It has about a 7' root flare and the the first 20' 25' is a good 5 1/2'. and you can see the rest..good crane acess in driveway but evrything would have to be landed in backyard and good veiw of whole tree for the crane operater but he would not be able to see the lz.

 

[Blakesmaster]

I thought you were overreacting till this pic.

That's hairy #### for sure.

 

[The Lawn Shark]

I thought you were overreacting till this pic.

That's hairy #### for sure.

yeah, you should see it in person....that looks hairy for sure but if you seen the other two leaders with huge splits in them you would.....well, I was like f-this, this is crane material.

 

[The Lawn Shark]

 

[beowulf343]

Looking at some of your pics in the other threads you listed, from which direction is your crane outfit going to pick and what size crane are they going to be using.

 

[TrillPhil]

Rent a crane for the day and do it! haha just kidding, there's no living in dying.

Is the central leader cracked if there is one? Hard for me to judge trees by pics... but I would climb up and tie in on the right side of the central and if I had to piece if off little by little I would rather than pass the job onto someone else... To me 5k is a decent chunk of change, but more than that I would want to keep a satisfied customer.

Why not put a rope in and drop it? not enough space, lines? Why not put a pull line and a working line? and ease it into the rigging if you're really worried?

Granted you were there, at this point I'm just an armchair qb.

 

[The Lawn Shark]

Looking at some of your pics in the other threads you listed, from which direction is your crane outfit going to pick and what size crane are they going to be using.

I assume they would set up crane somewhere where these two trucks are parked and have to set everything down in the back yard..
As far as size of the crane I'm not sure but I do know they have several cranes in different sizes.

 

[The Lawn Shark]

Looking at some of your pics in the other threads you listed, from which direction is your crane outfit going to pick and what size crane are they going to be using.

I assume they would set up in the driveway and have to use the backyard as the lz as ther really is nowhere else.
They have several cranes in different sizes...don'nt what they'll use.

 

[Saw Dust Smoken]

storm damage

For 5k my crew would do it. Anything big the GRC changes how ya can work it. Strap it back together some and stay off the busted up crap.

 

[beowulf343]

I assume they would set up in the driveway and have to use the backyard as the lz as ther really is nowhere else.
They have several cranes in different sizes...don'nt what they'll use.

Lol, you definitely don't think with a crane. I don't know about the other crane crews here, but we usually try to go out of our way to make sure we don't drop that far away from our equipment. Using a crane to drop all that in the backyard and then paying your crew to haul it all through that gate is not the best use of resources. In fact, there's been a few times we've picked and dropped in a landing zone, then repositioned and picked to the road-still a lot quicker than manually hauling it all. There's a couple landing zone options there, even if you're not big enough to pick from the road.

Oldirty, what size crane you working these days? Bet we could put that bad boy in the road in under two hours with my L-B.

 

[Blakesmaster]

If I'm not mistaken this is a shot of another tree in front of the same house, right LS?

 

[Blakesmaster]

How big a crane can you get in that spot, Beowulf? You know my experience is #### but I'm thinking a 28 ton is about all you'll get in there without taking out some bushes at least. You could then probably stage the debris in the driveway and leave your chip truck and log truck on the road. It'd be tight though, from my perspective at least.

 

[beowulf343]

Actually, one of our crews runs a nice 40 ton Manitex, rear mount on a surprisingly short Pete frame. I'd not hesitate to put that crane in that driveway.
Looking at that last picture you posted and the one below from another thread, i'd put the 40 ton in the driveway, sweet talk the neighbors to the right, move that little wishing well, and polesaw those dead branches on that tree in the front that shoot toward the house. Then just drop everything in that big empty spot as close to the road as we could get around that front tree. Could probably get the wood close enough to pick up with a prentice.
Of course, my every day crane is a 75 ton, we'd pick that from the road.

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