Working in a Homeowners'Association neighborhood greenbelt.
The homeowners, a retired couple in their later years, had the tree cabled 30 years earlier.
Nothing earth-shaking.
I did have to consider what would happen with the forward-leaning trunk (into the woods) broke free at the cable, and fell onto the pull line for the backleaning leader (toward sun and house).
I installed a throwline from the ground, to install a base-tied pull-rope for the rear trunk.
Set up the faces,
shaving bark at the hinges so I could see what the wood in the hinge is doing and to clearly see how much is cut/ where the hinge is,
bore-cut on the front-leaner,
Stood up the back-leaner on wedges with a standard back-cut, chased in with wedges, cut up to the pre-planned hinge.
Maasdam rope puller was tightened by the groundman, while I kept wedges tight.
Pulled it up to over vertical.
cut the backstrap on the front trunk.
Trees went to the lay, right where the hinge steered them, as you would expect.
50 footer Merle. Been renting a lot and had it on hand for prepping around the service line. Some of the limbs were wrapped clear round it. So cut them clear of the line prior to picking with the crane. Had a 5 day job with it as well.
Thanks Sean.
The video quality was bleagh. But here is the top and the long horizontal limb I balanced out from over the roof. We did a lot of 3 strap rigging due to the service (HO would not have it dropped) and the little sheds under it ... (3). Tad close to the primaries as well, so no flippy floppy allowed
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I would prefer 65 plus more feet and some more aticulation. Side reach is limited. Gets the job done though. Most our live and blue oaks, a 50 footer works fine. Tracked spider lift would be awesome. One crew had a 90 footer up here for a bit. Too short to take down 150 feet of pine though...lol
Nice just to rent and pass the the cost on. Group a bunch of work together and it gets cheaper. One week runs about a grand. Month i can get for a tad over 2gs.
Oh, and the dingosaurus moves it around just fine on flat ground.
I was supposed to do some light pruning to get rid of low branches and remove some stuck broken branches. Ended up doing more than expected and found this damage in one of the trees. Client did not want a cable so I expect a removal/clean up call after the next storm.
Opening doors today
Did two separate storm jobs today. Both involved silver maples. One of my coworkers got a lot of pics and hasn’t sent them to me yet. It was a fun day. Lots of rigging
Still liking the 255xp Cory. Really can’t complain about it at all. The winch line doesn’t need to be stowed to run the rollers. It has a selector lever for the hydraulics though. Can’t run them both at the same time.
Some more fun today Quercus Kelloggii. One side and top had torn out. New owner can't get insurance until its gone. And now, it's gone. Not finished with the job yet. One more return trip. Crane hydraulic pump went before the second set up on the back side. Just had to do it the old fashioned way. At least the stuff over the roof got done before it went.
Fodder.
The victim....
White tape is the border of the septic tank rear of house.
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