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Pulled some more trees with my winch

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DRussell

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Took my 1030 Case and logging winch over to a neighbor and pulled some trees for him which were leaning towards buildings. His wife got a video of the last one coming down.

It was a good sized ash, about 3 feet in diameter but was fairly dead.
Initially he was going to cut it with the winch tight to direct the fall, but it came out by the roots.
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Why did it fall sideways? Were you pulling it in a steady pull or were you increasing the tension and stopping to see how it was reacting to the increased tension? What sized cable do you have? I have pulled on trees and heard the cable sing. Which is a wire in the cable breaking.
 
It was a steady pull once I saw that it was coming out by the roots. Winch cable is 3/4. When pulling out by the roots they often don't necessarily fall directly in the line of the pull. A bigger root on one side not breaking can direct the tree sideways a bit.
 
Why did it fall sideways?

When I was a kid, my neighbor was killed using a dozer to take a tree down. Dozers didn't have any roll bars for protection.
Another man was killed using a chainsaw to cut a tree down.


IN both cases something went sideways.
Just be careful around trees.
 
Local towing company has a setup like that one a skidloader, setup a laid over payloader and brought it up out of a steep road ditch. Handy tool.
 
This is a tajfun winch I have on my Kubota 43 hp 4 wheel drive hydro with a tomahawk grapple on front.makes working with trees/logs alot easier
 
Rick, how much can you pull with this winch, logs only after they are cut or will it pull trees out by the root?
 
There was a fellow put a post on here some time ago about a big dead tree that was leaning the wrong way, he was wondering about felling it using wedges. I wonder how he made out?
 
Glad everything went safely. Those ash trees go where they want to go. I ve had a tree service remove about 25 of them and I ve removed another 20 or so. Not to mention the many that have blown over and need to be cleaned up. I was out today and saw some more that I ll have clear.

About 3 or 4 that I had removed (because they were too close to a building for me to chance it) did not fall where they had planned, but fortunately none hit buildings. The worst was a basketball hoop on a 4 inch steel pole that got crushed. Another came about 3 feet from the deck.
 
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