When is a tree too dead to climb?

[plowboy]

i looked at 1 to day that i belivei sould turn down .does any one have any pitchers of some they turned down to climb. i do have a 32' bucket an some climber but. this one worrys me

 

[tomtrees58]

ARE YOU A TREE GUY OR A WEEKEND CUTTER TOM TREESopcorn:

 

[plowboy]

at these prices i woudnt make it full time

but to answers your ? yes. bucket 1 year a round the farm ,friends, an family .an a fur referrals .climbing two trees near house. an one big old dead oak that when wrung .my fault not face cutting to the favor. thank god my old man is not bad .yer I'm so?

 

[scotclayshooter]

When in doubt let someone with more experience/Better insurance do the job.
I have knocked a few tree jobs back that are beyond what i feel safe doing.
I only do ground or cherry picker jobs ( I know my limits)

 

[Dillweed]

If you have any doubts, I suggest you leave it alone. Those who have been doing this for some time have seen a lot of crazy stuff happen.

This past summer I was contracted to remove a 48", 70' laurel oak that had split at the base. Half was on the ground and the other half was standing rather precariously. Decided to put a crane on it. Just befor I got to the job a few days later, the other half fell over crushing other trees, fence, etc. Luckily I scheduled it as the third job on that day and not the first.

The picture is at the job site where the tree fell. The crane operator and myself are shaking our heads in disbelief. At least I got the same $$$ without risking my life

 

[plowboy]

yae just call and turned it down

told her nephew that i didn't fill safe on doing the job(i work with him full time) and told him that if she try ed calling home owners they may drop her.so he said he better tell her him self to get some one more perfacnal right way. boy that would have cool to have under my belt .but not on my head

 

[tomtrees58]

good man there are more out there my big removals are big ones 6 to 8 foot but have Ben climbing four 33 years and we have a bucket 55 foot it gets you to the first limb that's long island four you but have a tree service in st pete fla to tom trees

 

[plowboy]

did not get it.dirt bike boots? yea same. wife says i have to much time on my hands driveing truck.

 

[treemandan]

This questions seems like it would be more, umm well, perverse? If it were directed to the actuall " owners" of these overly dead trees we rack our brains out over trying to get down... did someone mention safety being a virtue?

 

[newb]

Could you imagine being locked in a room with those two? Pete

 

[Fruitbowl]

Wow!

 

[ropensaddle]

Could you imagine being locked in a room with those two? Pete

Dead trees what u get dead means dead don't do what I can do.
Trust dead trees and watch your top knot in fla anywheres they be
long island is in the middle east don't go there stay away from
those tree and live a day. Can't be careful with all those people's
Nut trees!

 

[ropensaddle]

This questions seems like it would be more, umm well, perverse? If it were directed to the actuall " owners" of these overly dead trees we rack our brains out over trying to get down... did someone mention safety being a virtue?

Wow I thought it was communist agenda :monkey:

 

[Nailsbeats]

Dead trees what u get dead means dead don't do what I can do.
Trust dead trees and watch your top knot in fla anywheres they be
long island is in the middle east don't go there stay away from
those tree and live a day. Can't be careful with all those people's
Nut trees!

Priceless!!!!!!!!!!!!

Trees are too dead to climb when you are too scared to climb them.

 

[ropensaddle]

Priceless!!!!!!!!!!!!

Trees are too dead to climb when you are too scared to climb them.

Nails I have climbed some in my early years I would not climb today.
One such was a tall loblolly pine that had a large peckerwood hole
through it at thirty feet and I had to climb to sixty feet which was
nuts but I got it done. I learned some from those days and now will
charge for what is necessary to be safe. How ever many dead trees
can in fact be safely climbed and I do a thorough inspection before
trusting my or anyone else's life to chance. I have found most of them
worthy for rope and with a couple exceptions have climbed them without
fail. The couple I found a way either by guying them many directions
to a point they could not shake or repelling out of a different tree!
One case I went from two distant trees stretched a tight rope and used it
with a block set in the middle for my tip.

 

[Nailsbeats]

Rope, I am waiting to have to bust out the tight rope, haven't yet but it's always in the back of my mind. If you can rappel out of another tree you can climb anything, even those ones that turn to powder as the saw hits them and they hit the ground.

I was going up a Popple in my woods to knock the top out and came across a huge hole about 20 feet up and decided I best back down, haven't done that in a while, the next day the tree was laying on the woods floor.

 

[HolmenTree]

If ever in doubt of a trees structural risk , shot a line up and give it the old pull test [away from any targets of course.]

I have taken down some bad trees with a 3 ft cable saw, tie the 2 rings between 2 throw lines, positon the cable saw in an upper crotch with the bigshot and cut 1/2 ways through the stem from a distance with the 2 lines, then shot a 3rd line into the top area and proceed to pull the piece down with the Masdam puller.

 

[LTREES]

Priceless!!!!!!!!!!!!

Trees are too dead to climb when you are too scared to climb them.

Been in a couple I shouldn't have been in ( haven't we all ) The key is to learn from our recklessness and create smarter fellings. (RIGGIN) Now that's fun, ropes, pulleys, carabeeners, ropealongs, angles and the perfect a drop.:jawdrop:

WORK SMART, NOT HARD

:greenchainsaw: :greenchainsaw:

 

[Lumberjacked]

If you don't know if you should climb it or not...I wouldn't climb it. Sub the removal out and go home safe and alive.

BTW there is a spell check button...