Hung Up Cherry!

With the kit you got lets rock on! just kidding but i'd take down.... Iknow Iknow give me hell for it.

Looks like 2 Hardack trees are holding it up ? That's good stuff to burn.

Hard to tell how bad or big from the picture. Those type of hangers (with root ball) can toss a saw. A little wood ain't worth a lot of stitches or worse!

The trunk on the left does not seem to be supporting weight and can be dropped.
That may ease some of the weight and you can get the other cut more easily.

Hurricane said:

The trunk on the left does not seem to be supporting weight and can be dropped.
That may ease some of the weight and you can get the other cut more easily.

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+1 bull rope+big truck

I used to have a team of horses that could pull that out. Now I just use the tractor.
Honestly, I'm buying most my wood now. But there was a time dammit...

kenny chaos said:

I used to have a team of horses that could pull that out. Now I just use the tractor.
Honestly, I'm buying most my wood now. But there was a time dammit...

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yep when I was growing up we would go get the farmall super M

The first good ice storm should bring it down. In just a few weeks, it will safely put itself on the ground.

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Valhalla said:

The first good ice storm should bring it down. In just a few weeks, it will safely put itself on the ground.

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I said that about a big oak leaner in Sept. of 2004. It was still up there this afternoon.

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yep thats more like the real world

The difference between an optimist and a realist is in this case, some patience.

It will come down by itself when it is ready.

Valhalla said:

The difference between an optimist and a realist is in this case, some patience.

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lol I knew this is where the people that dont know how to do it tell the people who do know that there crazy! If you dont know how please dont try...............
I have be doing this stuff for a long time DONT TRY THIS AT HOME!!

Ghettontheball said:

MURPHY sez if u stand under tree it"ll come down sooner than u want

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that is why a hand saw and a 150 ft of rope puts me where murphy said I will be safe not asking anyone to do it dont take me as doing so.
manage a tree crew for 13 years I'll do one any day!

When this tree falls in the woods, will anyone hear it?
Of course not, as we will still be on this thread. LOL

I say it may fall during a storm this coming winter. Besides, it is winter 2010/11 fuel anyway, at the least.

Let's ask the original poster, zapny to revisit this subject in the spring, and bring us all up to speed.

Ghettontheball said:

MURPHY sez if u stand under tree it"ll come down sooner than u want

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That is a kid magnet, in my yard that would be gone and in my woodpile without any hesitation.
That said if you do not know what you are doing you can get seriously hurt or screw up your equipment.

I've had a dead elm leaning on another dead elm for over 6 years and I don't have a tractor or the cains long enough to yank on the leaner. I try not to think on them.

Valhalla said:

When this tree falls in the woods, will anyone hear it?
Of course not, as we will still be on this thread. LOL

I say it may fall during a storm this coming winter. Besides, it is winter 2010/11 fuel anyway, at the least.

Let's ask the original poster to revisit this subject in the spring, and bring us all up to speed.

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With the kit you got lets rock on! just kidding but i’d take down.... Iknow Iknow give me hell for it.


lol this is what it always comes to when someone post a learner should listen to myself




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Funny thing, I got a big dead ash hung up today on a nice oak of the same size. Take 'em both down, right? Well, when I got closer to the oak I realized it was covered in a poison ivy vine thick enough to make a coffee table out of. Neither tree was worth that much poison ivy. I'll definitely just wait.

I would never put a life in danger to down this or any other similarly hung up tree, it is just not worth it.

On to other good stuff!

I'm kind of jealous and wishing my cutting was all that easy. I think my record so far is three hedge trees all grown together. Cut the first two, but they still wouldn't break free of the third. Finally got into the third making dang sure to have a good retreat path and not standing in front of the thing. It was actually pretty uneventful when it finally let go - the trees were so 'bushy' they don't fall far before the lower limbs are already hitting the ground - not like on the 'ax men' where the trunk can fall 200 feet before crashing to the ground.

does anyone here play with dynamite? I've often wondered about the strategic placement of some in situations such as this.

Not suggesting a new standard procedure, just an experiment in feasibility.

I wouldn't let it there. Cherry rots fast even before loosing it's bark. (Especially the top of the tree) I value life and limb, but that tree seems to be upright enough to where you wouldn't have to worry about a kick, if cut this way. Start from the bottom and work your way up to the "V". Let the weight of the tree plant itself into the ground on each cut. When you reach the "V", cut the most "branching" section off (left) , leaving the straightest (right). Work your way up each section as it plants back into the ground on each cut.

But if your uneasy about it, leave it. I'm of the "try it and see" sort!