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TreeHouser
Crazy!
Tree felling vids
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Treeaddict
Treehouser
Lucky. Gotta go to Facebook to see it though.
CurSedVoyce
California Hillbilly
Yeah. Kinda rookie move. Saw that earlier on FB. Leave the saw, it can be replaced.
Kaveman
Treehouser
Says unavailable now. Lol, oh well I guess I'll have to get facephuk...NOT!
gf beranek
Old Schooler
same here... not
gf beranek
Old Schooler
I signed up in 07 when Terri got a Fbook account. But have never used it since.
To this day I still get notices, "You have 10,000,000 likes, Gerald."
The Tree House is the only online forum in my bookmarks.
And that's enough, thank you!
To this day I still get notices, "You have 10,000,000 likes, Gerald."
The Tree House is the only online forum in my bookmarks.
And that's enough, thank you!
gf beranek
Old Schooler
10,000,000 plus 1
CurSedVoyce
California Hillbilly
RUN Forrest!!!!
flushcut
TreeHouser
I’m guessing he didn’t evaluate the situation.
treebilly
Student of the Jedi. OH-7106A
That’s a good one
Kaveman
Treehouser
🎶 MOVE! BITCH! GET OUT THE WAY! 🎶
davidwyby
Desert Beaver
Mick!
TreeHouser
Nicely done.
Kaveman
Treehouser
Nice low stumps there David!
SeanKroll
Treehouser
You probably have some high power press in your shop. Do you want to test end grain versus face grain?
SeanKroll
Treehouser
Nothing special
davidwyby
Desert Beaver
I could do that. Place a flat piece of wood on the end of a firewood round and press.
The press brings a point to mind...one must always be careful to keep things straight and parallel when pressing, or things go flying. If I were jacking a tree over and it had traveled far enough that that jacking surfaces were pretty far out of parallel, I'd probably want something like my aluminum one way wedges as a spacer to approximate the angle. Also, if the trunk got leaned far enough, I could see the jack blowing out the side.
SeanKroll
Treehouser
Running my growing climber through a natural-crotch square rigging set-up.
Rotten tree.
Not room or need to let it run, much.
Brushed it down the firs to slow it.
Rotten tree.
Not room or need to let it run, much.
Brushed it down the firs to slow it.
Mellow
BCMA
Rotten tree? I would have let it run at least a little. Sketchy looking even without that shock load. Glad it worked out ok.
SeanKroll
Treehouser
Thanks for the comment.
Discussion is good.
That was not an exemplary catch of the least peak force possible, and seemed pretty light...I had a smooth 180⁰ bend over the crotches.
That was the healthiest of the four. I didn''t want to climb higher than that rigging point, as it was rotten at that rigging point, down the middle, with a bunch of shell growth, and basally affected.
More solid than rotten, and nothing like the drum of rot next to it...gentle climbing.
Yes, had it run a bit more, it would have been better.
It was a light load, slowed through dragging on the fir. I'd already removed about 30' of live crown's phototropically-oriented weight and leverage, which was in the direction of the rigging load.
I could have tipped it directly into the fir crown to prevent it from flipping, then managed it down from there.
I was fully prepared to toss my hand saw if I needed extra time to get the rope.
Discussion is good.
That was not an exemplary catch of the least peak force possible, and seemed pretty light...I had a smooth 180⁰ bend over the crotches.
That was the healthiest of the four. I didn''t want to climb higher than that rigging point, as it was rotten at that rigging point, down the middle, with a bunch of shell growth, and basally affected.
More solid than rotten, and nothing like the drum of rot next to it...gentle climbing.
Yes, had it run a bit more, it would have been better.
It was a light load, slowed through dragging on the fir. I'd already removed about 30' of live crown's phototropically-oriented weight and leverage, which was in the direction of the rigging load.
I could have tipped it directly into the fir crown to prevent it from flipping, then managed it down from there.
I was fully prepared to toss my hand saw if I needed extra time to get the rope.
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Burnham
Woods walker
Just my generally useless .02 
...those decorative cedar fences are easy to take apart and put back up. Would it have been possible to pull that tree onto the lawn if the fence was out of the way?
...those decorative cedar fences are easy to take apart and put back up. Would it have been possible to pull that tree onto the lawn if the fence was out of the way?
SeanKroll
Treehouser
All 4 trees would reach the house, if felled, not stripped and persuaded.
They all grew, trunk and limbs, to the south, toward the house.
This third ree was growing the most offset from the stump. It was slowest to taper. I considered pulling it into the wetland area, but couldn't get a retainer line into it. I definitely wouldn't have trusted a hinge on that to hold the side weight.
I minimally felt the movement.
Someone could have run the rope from 10-15' back behind the tree to maximize the compression.
I didn't feel like catching it was pushing any limits.
They all grew, trunk and limbs, to the south, toward the house.
This third ree was growing the most offset from the stump. It was slowest to taper. I considered pulling it into the wetland area, but couldn't get a retainer line into it. I definitely wouldn't have trusted a hinge on that to hold the side weight.
I minimally felt the movement.
Someone could have run the rope from 10-15' back behind the tree to maximize the compression.
I didn't feel like catching it was pushing any limits.
SeanKroll
Treehouser
I did have some room to let it run, but couldn't tell how much when it was overhead.
