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Aowner

09-08-2006 18:11:07




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I have a dead white oak in my front yard that measures about 4 1/2 feet in diameter thats dead. I need to get it cut but it would have to be cut down limb by limb. Is there any kind of saw that I could buy to cut the big limbs. Can't climb it.




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Slowpoke

09-30-2006 22:40:51




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 Re: Cuting tree limbs in reply to Aowner, 09-08-2006 18:11:07  
You have a dangerous job that can't be done without climbing and the proper equipment to get it down.
The other day I was driving past TacoBell and saw a CRANE in the back parking lot. It was working a 2-3' tree in a private rear yard next to the store. The pieces were about 10 feet long and laid in the store parking lot to be cut up. Probably a $3000-$4000 job. Too far to reach for a bucket truck and too confined to drop pieces.

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Aowner

09-09-2006 07:29:04




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 Re: Cuting tree limbs in reply to Aowner, 09-08-2006 18:11:07  
This tree has to be taken apart and can't be dropped as a whole. I have seen these cable saws that you hook a rope on each end and move back and forth to cut something with.



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paul

09-10-2006 21:13:30




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 Re: Cuting tree limbs in reply to Aowner, 09-09-2006 07:29:04  
I must assume there are buildings in the way in all directions that you can't drop it whole? Dad - & now I - have dropped some big stuff between buildings with a tractor & long cable, but not saying it is the responsible thing to do....

For a tree that large, you likely need to call in the boom truck. Can save some money if you just get it down to the ground, do the cutting up & cleanup yourself.

The saw-ropes & other such things are not safe or worthwhile on a tree that big. Don't think you will get a good result with such things.

For me it would be drop it whole or call the boom truck & write the check. Other's milage may varry. :)

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2x4

09-09-2006 21:47:00




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 Re: Cuting tree limbs in reply to Aowner, 09-09-2006 07:29:04  
if they're the cable saws I'm thinking of, they are slow, cut only small limbs & only work on near-horizonal branches. If your White Oak is like my 4 1/2 footer, after the first log it forks into several large branches growing nearly straight up.



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buickanddeere

09-09-2006 05:47:02




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 Re: Cuting tree limbs in reply to Aowner, 09-08-2006 18:11:07  
Any market in the are for oak? Around here there would be a line up of guys wanting to pay you so they could cut it down and have the lumber.



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jdemaris

09-09-2006 05:30:57




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 Re: Cuting tree limbs in reply to Aowner, 09-08-2006 18:11:07  
White Oak is a very rot-resistant wood - so it gives you a little more time than with others. But, from what you're saying, it sounds pretty big. I worked for Asplundh Tree Expert Company when I was younger - and we climbed quite a few such trees when we couldn't reach them with a boom-pole or a bucket-truck. That being said, after leaving Asplundh and being a "little out of practice" for maybe six months - I took on a large tree removal that had to be climbed and almost killed myself. The main problem was that I was unsteady and unsure of myself. It seems to be the sort of thing you need to do everyday to stay good at. Just recently - some 40 years after my short tree career, I had a huge 150 year-old Sugar Maple that died and was leaning towards our house. I called a tree-guy and he gave us a price of $2000 and that only included getting it down, not cutting it all up. So, I took my big backhoe (big old ugly 16,000 lb. Pettibone Multihoe), and raised the hoe as high as it would go and leaned it against the tree - putting pressure away from the house. I then notched it, and cut some more. It worked out great. I was pretty suprised at how easy it was to push over in the other direction.

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Vern-MI

09-09-2006 04:43:56




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 Re: Cuting tree limbs in reply to Aowner, 09-08-2006 18:11:07  
Sometimes it is a lot cheaper and safer to just call in the professional tree removal service. With that being said there are pole pruners that have razor tooth saws on the ends but you can only reach about 12 feet up. There is the danger on these that you are directly below the limb when it decides to let go so you have to be quick to get out of the way. It takes a lot of strokes to get one limb sawn off. You can buy these pole pruners at big box stores like Home Depot.

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Bus Driver

09-09-2006 03:27:52




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 Re: Cuting tree limbs in reply to Aowner, 09-08-2006 18:11:07  
The longer one waits, the more dangerous the job becomes. Falling limbs can kill and they will fall as it rots. Get it down now.



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2x4

09-08-2006 22:29:16




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 Re: Cuting tree limbs in reply to Aowner, 09-08-2006 18:11:07  
somebody's gonna have to go up it, either on ropes & climbing spikes or with a bucket truck. There are no short cuts on this job. Ruling out of course helicoptors with dangle saws & long reach excavators with tree-eater heads in place of the bucket. Ya, there are such things.



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Fawteen

09-09-2006 06:04:26




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 Re: Cuting tree limbs in reply to 2x4, 09-08-2006 22:29:16  
Neighbor had one of them tree-eating excavators come in and take a bunch of dead larch out of her pasture fenceline.

Fast, but left the damndest mess I've ever seen. She was NOT pleased.



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