Advice on dropping two EAB ash trees

[baseroom]

My neighbor has two almost dead ash trees in her back yard. I have room to drop them They are three feet in diameter at the base. I have dropped a lot of trees But I figured I would reach out to the wisdom of this group to see if there is anything I should watch out for.

Thanks

 

[BenTN]

falling limbs. dead ash drop a lot of limbs on the way down and make a mess when they hit. bring a helmet and a rake.

be safe.

 

[FaithfulWoodsman]

Dropped one just like that last Sept. About 12' up, trunk separated into two equal 24" diameter sections, but one had 4'-5' of back lean. Measured what I would need to tip it. Double wedging should do it. Kept eating the wedges. Had to finagle a bottle jack in to finish it over. Once down discovered that the front side was bone dry, but the back leaning side was still full of water causing major gravitational imbalance and my calculations to be way off. Couldn't tell by looking at it either, as neither side had leaves, but fully barked. Be careful and plan ahead for poss problems. Have good PPE.

 

[FaithfulWoodsman]

One thing that saved me from real trouble on that tree was good hinge wood. So keep that in mind as well if it's a rotter.

 

[baseroom]

All great advice! Thanks.

 

[warno]

I would watch for the trunk possibly snapping and going where you don't want. I had a branch cut out of my ash tree recently and there's a 1" hole that is through the center of the 12" limb that was cut. Could pose an issue of your tree has the same thing.