Widow Maker!

[thewoodlands]

I'll wait for the wind on this one. :zip: This is a sugar maple up top, I had to make another trail so I could get around to other areas safely.

zap

 

[Backwoods Savage]

Yes Zap, that one could be a bit nasty, but I doubt the wind will do all the work. A little tug here and a little tug there and it will be down. You might even cut some off the butt of the one before giving those tugs.

 

[mainstation]

+1, time for the winch and some creative compression cuts. looks to be lodged in that crotch pretty good.
safety 1st.

 

[thewoodlands]

+1, time for the winch and some creative compression cuts. looks to be lodged in that crotch pretty good.
safety 1st.

Back 5 - 6 feet from the crouch it's starting to rot, my worry is once it cuts lose which way does it go. I did one (beech hung up) I thought when it cut loose it would shoot back off the stump end (broken off 25 feet in the air on the stump end, hung up in the crotch of another tree) when it cut loose it went back 25 feet off the stump end, last one I did. I was cutting from the end hung up in the crotch.


What way would this one go?

zap

 

[mainstation]

Well, I guess if you are not adverse to cut the "leaned on tree" down you could do a small bottom notch on the leaned on tree (pic 1)(pic 3) and have it try and fall 45 degree to the Right (3 o'clock) from a Birds eye view of the crotch snare. But use a winch and safe pull rope to pull them both down slowly. But safety 1st again.

 

[SolarAndWood]

Lake Ontario blesses us with all the wind required to clear these up. It is only a matter of time, not worth the risk.

 

[thewoodlands]

Lake Ontario blesses us with all the wind required to clear these up. It is only a matter of time, not worth the risk.

I can wait, it's been dropping for the last two years.

zap

 

[Jags]

Run up and kick it real hard, then run away really really fast. :lol:

I'm with Dennis - a proper length of chain or strap on a tow vehicle and give it a couple of 90 deg tugs here and there. It will come down with you at a safe distance away.

 

[thewoodlands]

Run up and kick it real hard, then run away really really fast. :lol:

I'm with Dennis - a proper length of chain or strap on a tow vehicle and give it a couple of 90 deg tugs here and there. It will come down with you at a safe distance away.

You can put the chain or rope around the hung up tree and I'll be in the tow vehicle. :zip:

zap

 

[Jags]

Run up and kick it real hard, then run away really really fast. :lol:

I'm with Dennis - a proper length of chain or strap on a tow vehicle and give it a couple of 90 deg tugs here and there. It will come down with you at a safe distance away.

You can put the chain or rope around the hung up tree and I'll be in the tow vehicle. :zip:

zap

Not claiming super man qualities or anything, but I actually do that quite often.

Buddy - I'd help ya out if I was a little closer. :coolsmile:

 

[Delta-T]

thats the kinda tree you see some kid mangle himself on, on America Funniest Videos. Get the local kids up on top of it jumping up and down, bring your camera, its an easy $10,000 and a meet and greet with Tom Bergeron.

 

[thewoodlands]

Run up and kick it real hard, then run away really really fast. :lol:

I'm with Dennis - a proper length of chain or strap on a tow vehicle and give it a couple of 90 deg tugs here and there. It will come down with you at a safe distance away.

You can put the chain or rope around the hung up tree and I'll be in the tow vehicle. :zip:

zap

Not claiming super man qualities or anything, but I actually do that quite often.

Buddy - I'd help ya out if I was a little closer. :coolsmile:

I understand Jags, I only have been running a chainsaw since 2003 on the lot the house is on and 2007 on our woodlot so I'm a little cautious on hung up trees.

zap

 

[Jags]

Run up and kick it real hard, then run away really really fast. :lol:

I'm with Dennis - a proper length of chain or strap on a tow vehicle and give it a couple of 90 deg tugs here and there. It will come down with you at a safe distance away.

You can put the chain or rope around the hung up tree and I'll be in the tow vehicle. :zip:

zap

Not claiming super man qualities or anything, but I actually do that quite often.

Buddy - I'd help ya out if I was a little closer. :coolsmile:

I understand Jags, I only have been running a chainsaw since 2003 on the lot the house is on and 2007 on our woodlot so I'm a little cautious on hung up trees.

zap

Absolutely and ALWAYS.

 

[Oldmainer]

Hello Zap...for a guy that cuts lots of wood (yourself) a little hangup shouldn't be a problem. I'd pull the damn thing down with whatever I had handy even if I had to use a hand winch. I've had my share of hangups...in more then 35 years of cutting... and managed to pull them down one way or another. Doesn't look like much of a problem from here. Oldmainer