would you climb it?

[murphy4trees]

Top of the house side lead is out and still no slack in the wire...
I definately should have tied the two leads together... maybe used the rope come-a-long and a short piece of line to strap them tight... I don't know what I was thinking!!!!
God Bless All,
Daniel

 

[treeclimber165]

Yup, looks like it was a Pucker Factor of about 8.7. Impressive looking removal, Daniel. It's difficult to get an idea of size from pictures, I guess it was bigger than I thought from your first few pics.

 

[murphy4trees]

I guess the pucker factor finally caught up with me cause I just couldn't bring myself to climb the second half of that tree.
Sooooooooo we laid out the brush and just about anything else we could find out across the driveway.....
AND

 

[murphy4trees]

I bombed the top of the second lead out across the driveway in one cut while standing on the top rung of the ladder with a double tie-in. I haven't dropped anything across a driveway like that in years. Don't like to take chances.. but between me and the driveway it's the driveway that better be careful.
Fortunately there was no damage!!!
The wire finally then went slack. I cut it and then pulled the leads back into the yard.
Altogether a fun and exciting job... and I probably could have put $1200-$1500 on it which would have made it that much more fun.
God Bless All,
Daniel

 

[NeTree]

Sure, I'd climb it.

 

[Toddppm]

Looks like a stressful job! I would have wrapped a rope around the base a few times and tied the leads together. Some of the worst trees I've done have been for friends and family, why is that?

 

[Treeman14]

CLIMB it! I wouldn't even park the bucket near it.

Seriously though, I agree with MM on this one.
















I'd let Brian climb it.

 

[DDM]

Originally posted by Mike Maas
I wasn't suggesting <B>I'd</B> climb it, I meant guy it, then send Brian up.

Actually, I do this kinda stuff quite often, a bucket truck only works if you can get it there.

LOL I think brian could climb a 40' bamboo. Brian, did you get that film developed from when you were up here?

 

[treeclimber165]

Do I have pictures from when I was up there? I have a couple more shots on the roll, maybe I'll use it up tomorrow. I keep forgetting that the camera is in the truck! Did you get some shots of me using my camera?

 

[DDM]

Yup when you were up in that Last oak removal 2 or three shots i think.

 

[treeclimber165]

I know they aren't from when we were roping those limbs from over the power lines, you were white knuckling that rope so it wouldn't slip on the PW and let the limb into the lines!

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

I got a buddy here in MKE who gives tobacco to every tree he removes.

An interesting thing I found from the making of the Edward Sullivan (Lake Schooner they made here a few years ago); the Menomonee people believe that a tree has a sprit after 100 years. they rpovided much of the big wood for the ship, including the big white pine masts.

 

[Treeman14]

 

[murphy4trees]

How about this 60'+ oak????
Any takers for climbing this tree... guyed or otherwise????
I get surprised every time I drive by this tree and see that it is still standing.
God Bless All,
Daniel

 

[murphy4trees]

Here's a shot of the whole tree...
D

 

[treeclimber165]

WOW!

I think I'd need to be tied in to something else other than that tree! Looks like it could fall if you look at it wrong. What's holding it up? Is it laying in the other tree?

 

[jblimbwalker]

Whoa! Now that's what I call exTREEme!

 

[treeman82]

I probably would have done just like Daniel did. Climb it and take out lots of small pieces. Get it down to a stick and pull it over into a hole somewhere after cutting out the side that goes over the yard.

 

[Grigory]

In the summer we removed two birches. (Pic 001)

 

[Grigory]

One of them has broken and has got stuck in second. Second had a crack of a trunk below.