Posted by Billy NY on May 27, 2009 at 13:11:18 from (74.67.3.238):
In Reply to: large dead tree removal posted by Dan in North Houston on May 27, 2009 at 12:06:31:
One would have to see what it looks like, a photo would be helpful here.
Seems people have their own varying preferences on these, hire out a bucket truck, take it from the top down etc., well take off the widowmakers at least, then you could cut it with a typical face cut/back cut. You might want to plunge cut into it and see if and where it's decayed, will help you figure out where to cut it and make it fall the way you want, hopefully no metal like hedgerow trees that used to be fence lines, most times I can figure out where the 3 strands were, and cut around them, other times you find something grown in, something someone hung on the tree and forgot, my friend hit a nice piece of steel in an old elm at my place last year.
As is, I stay right the heck away from em, those darned spears/widowmakers you have to contend with just take precedence, cutting the rest is not so bad from my experiences. Some species like the elm we have here will hold onto those limbs, they tend to stay put, most times just the outside is weathered, inside hard, but also can be brittle, just the trunk gets punked out, even at that, every tree is unpredictable, always a level of risk to mitigate.
You could also dig the base out, weaken it, preferably with a machine that has a solid R.O.P.S. canopy that a limb can't penetrate, even vibration from a crawler can cause a weak one to fall. Once you dig out the base, severing the roots, can push or pull over easier.
Safest thing to do is to get those limbs down, bucket truck, articulated boom manlift like a JLG from a rental house to get up their. Other than that, ratchet strap your ladder to the trunk, climb up and set a choker on it, up high for leverage, use enough line to get out of it's path and pull it over with a heavy crawler or tractor, might come over, snap off or just stay put, these are never easy and sometimes you just have to spend the money, if it's a hazard now, money well spent, otherwise let the critters enjoy it, I've got 2 big elms like that, decided to let em be until I could do it safely, getting under it and taking a chance to cut them down, too risky as I see it.
Don't make me an expert, one kind of work I have a lot of respect for is tree cutting, take your darned time and think it out, no rush, I did a ton of tree cutting this spring, started off with this hedgerow, took about a dozen using a choker up high, advantage was the lack of widowmaker type limbs, though black cherry seems to hold their limbs when dead, it's that hollowed out one you don't see, took a 120'+ oak, looked healthy and no defects, well the ants were up top, hollowed it out, you just never know.
I cut some and pulled on them to influence them to fall away from the neighbors back yards, some I just pulled right over after feeling em out with a few tugs, but you can't be too careful with your rigging, have to know when it just won't pull, and you could snap a line, chain, cable etc. time to try something else. That is 3/4" heavy @ss chain, I needed the length, but the rest was good quality 1/2" and 3/8" with a 1/2" wire rope choker/clevis and you can see my ladder strapped off, just to connect the choker, don't use a metal ladder near power lines for any reason.
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