Limbrat
TreeHouser
HO called me this morning said he had started to cut a tree behind his house yesterday but stayed in a motel last night cuz he was scared it was going to fall on the house (mobile home) and now he didn't know what to do. He said it was a 90' dead pine and he had a chain and a come-along on it and still had about three inches of hinge wood intact. He was right about the height, but he had cut all the way through the hinge, the back cut was closed and it had about four feet of back-lean over the trailer. The only thing keeping the tree from making his home a double-wide was a $12 cable come-along and the good Lord. To make matters worse, it was on the edge of of beaver pond and the only thing to pull to was a couple of dead pines a hundred feet or so out in the pond. With all the underbrush, I couldn't get a throw line in the tree and it was sixty feet to the first limb. I got 2 bull ropes, pushed running bowlines up about 40' with an extendo stick, got my chest waders on and waded out, rigged two hoists and jacked it over. Man, what a splash! Could'a been a big crunch. I should've taken pictures.