so climb the damn tree and cut the leaders out, white oaks hold good enough for that. jeez.
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Just cut the fooking thing already from NeTree
Lorda mercy, I sure did manage to get some of you boys all het up
OK, so I DID cut it already...today after work. I used a throw line to pull a rope into each lead and shake the boogers out of them...shook the dead wood out and verified the leads were still sound. I spurred up to the main fork of the leads and cut off each lead which left a very manageable spar.
Put a good pull rope at the top, went down on my friction saver, saver got stuck, spurred back up to snatch the goldarned thing out, put a Z-drag, 2:1 system in (single butterfly midline, anchored to truck, pulled thru biner at butterfly back toward truck) and had the 3 Bosnian fellows that were on site keep steady tension while I did my back cut.
My first face cut was too shallow so I dropped back and made a better one...didn't like the direction it faced so I nipped out the non-street side of the face cut.
Once I got enough of the back cut made I had the fellows keep pressure on the pull and set TWO wedges (that has to make some of you crazy). Cutting that high with the MS 450 was a bit dicey but I finally whittled down to the hinge while they pulled. She toppled over just fine.