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Cut straight through, fast as possible about 18” from the collar. Got 2” of bark tear out. Should I do an undercut to reduce risk of longer tear out?

I removed one more branch on Saturday, trying Sean’s method somewhat unsuccessfully. It was a comedy of errors but thanks to all your advice over the years (and the small size) no injury, no property damage. I learned a lot. After it was on the ground I measured and weighed it and found the...

Definitely filing this away as a good technique for future adventures. Do you ever have problems with branches above the target branch interfering with the raising? I have zero experience. Strictly an armchair warrior. I saw in TCIA Best Practices: "A successful tip-tie lift requires...

Haha. Somewhere in between! I am not trying to make money on this but I do have competing demands on my time. Also max fun might get me hurt. Too bad you aren't around here! But seriously, Trying to maximize learning also. Getting too exotic might be not be a productive learning experience this...

Sean, appreciate the warning about the roof. Trying not to overthink it! Do you mean like this?

I have a new plan. Using pole pruner, standing on the roof and letting the leafy tips fall on the roof. Then limb walk out and cut manageable pieces, catch with a butt hitched sling and then throw clear oaf the roof. I wanted to do some fancy rigging but with my total inexperience and all the...

Ok, now that there is daylight I can take a real picture.

I just looked in Jerry’s book I did the bender cut wrong. I was doing top cuts instead of bottom cuts! No wonder it split.

We have a Maple growing over our garage. It is shaded by larger trees on all sides except the garage side. It has been sending so many branches in that direction that some of them crossed and are rubbing each other. I wanted to remove all the crossed branches but only had time for one yesterday...