Gasifier said:How will you do that ZAP? Will you remove a few trees in the way? Cut the bottom of that leaner, and then pull the bottom out until it drops to the ground?
Cowboy Billy said:It sure can take some thinking to get a hanger down safely Zap. One trick I use from time to time when I am pulling from the side. Is to wrap the chain around the tree a few times so as I am pulling it tries to roll the tree as well as pull it.
Billy
Cowboy Billy said:Is to wrap the chain around the tree a few times so as I am pulling it tries to roll the tree as well as pull it.
Billy
Jags said:Be extra careful on that one Zap. Its got "ugly" written all over it. If you are going to cut at the base be prepared for some weird tree movements.
Edit: as a matter of fact, consider chaining the base in one direction or the other and cut from the opposite side.
Flatbedford said:Be careful.
oldspark said:I just make shallow cuts and then rip it down, no danger to it. I have a 50 ft cable and 25 feet of chain to get as far away as I need to. Thats how us chickens do it.
That is a good point Billy. Did that with a leaner one time, a neighbor who was helping me suggested it, worked great.Cowboy Billy said:It sure can take some thinking to get a hanger down safely Zap. One trick I use from time to time when I am pulling from the side. Is to wrap the chain around the tree a few times so as I am pulling it tries to roll the tree as well as pull it.
Billy
mayhem said:How close can you get to the base with the truck?
I'd roll wrap the chain like Billy suggested and then pull it downhill at a 45 degree angle from the lean. If its still got a lot of meat keeping it attached to the stump I'd chain the thing tight to the nearby trees in multiple directions and hit it with the 660 slow and easy.
I had a real bad widowmaker at my brother's house about a month ago. 50 foot poplar, about 20" at the base toppled over in a windstorm. Trunk about 12' up from the ground was chest height and you could just feel the tension in the air when you got near it. Chained it hard and tight at 90 degrees to a tree about 15 feet away and started making my first cut topside about 2 feet below the chain. I could feel the tension slowly and steadily relax on the tree as the chain kept getting tighter and tighter and the stump end just detached when I got to end of the cut. It was all very nice and predicatable...couldn't have gone better for me.