I need to bring this discussion back to life.
I am slowly learning as I remove a large hackberry with several leaning leaders. Fortunately there are high tie in points. Still a challenge for me as I have little experience with leaners or gaffs. I tried on top and underneath… and then...
Spider Bite?
am gradually removing a large hackberry tree over my parking area. I had cut off the dead branches that were most threatening to my van in a couple sessions over the last few years. I have a week off my day job so I am back at it. Saturday morning I got bit or stung by something on...
They do ok, this one was 75/80 years old.
They were rarely planted in groups, probably because they were expensive, so in isolation I often see them with their tops blown out, which ruins them aesthetically.
Cool. I will have to look again at a tree I have to take down. Might work. It has a lean for a building. If I use the anchor available to pull, it has a 20 foot White Oak in danger. My bud planted the oak 20 years ago. Been pondering using two pull ropes. One to get it committed to away...
Levitated a 55 ft tall dead one yesterday. Hollow at the base and up about ten feet, and the Pileated Woodpecker had blasted it halfway through about 30 feet up. Hung it from the hickory next to it and whittled it from the bottom up.
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