Posted by Billy NY on May 28, 2013 at 05:58:31 from (72.226.79.200):
In Reply to: project in PA posted by Larry@stinescorner on May 28, 2013 at 04:09:57:
I guess one has to look closely at the base of a tree, seems like those ant nests are easily missed, even at the bottom. Its always hard to say when the conditions will be ideal for the remaining wood to fail under load, wind, ice snow or what have you and when it will fall, nice you got one up on it and took it down before the inevitable, gravity ! LOL ! I took a 120' oak down that was 36" at the butt, about 86 years old, black carpenter ants were way up top in it, but the wood looked about like yours, the live area intact. They wanted it down, guy was filling in a ravine, to connect another part of a field, they tried with a 550 JD dozer, foolishly, I went in and cut it, fell right where I wanted it, top did not shear or break, but just knowing those ants were in there..... I have a habit of looking up while cutting, usually around halfway, just in case, any sign of trouble I am out, I hate cutting and trusting its going your way, have to see it, that lift had to be much safer one chunk at a time !
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