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Re: Widowmaker Leaning Trees


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Posted by Billy NY on April 11, 2009 at 07:46:11 from (74.67.3.238):

In Reply to: Widowmaker Leaning Trees posted by fergienewbee on April 11, 2009 at 02:53:19:

If were me, and you want that Walnut to live or have that Ash off it's back, I'd make a path, get in there with a tractor, or better a small crawler, ratchet strap a ladder to climb the Ash, put a choker up high for leverage and double check to make sure the tractor or crawler is far enough away, and pull it back over. I would be worried about where the choker is, and if trunk where it's hooked would break off, not familiar with what a dead ash, (I assume it's dead) will do. Being uprooted, it will come back the other way, but you will need traction and a strong line, I've been using heavy chain and wire rope chokers with a clevis. I've been doing 60'-0" 12"-16" dia. black cherry leaners in an old hedgerow all week, taking my time and figuring each one out, got them all out with just slight limb damage to the other healthy trees and minimal risk to myself. I was real leary of doing this job, have felled enough trees to know where to walk away, but after some thought, using the downward slope for traction, one I pulled back up plumb and over roots and all, others I had to carefully cut and apply tension to, having seen a recent episode of Axe Men, where they were cutting blown down Alder, no doubt about the barber chair, must have been the camera angle or something, still hard to believe they cut these and did not get hurt or killed, nasty business sometimes.

There is no arguing with what the others said, tasks like these have high risk, and are a bit intimidating, having the right plan and equipment makes all the difference, by any means if you can't get in there with something and can only cut, might be best left alone, but me thinks it would come over if you had enough tractor, traction and stout line to pull it with.


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