Posted by JerryS on November 03, 2014 at 23:04:29 from (98.80.120.142):
I moved into a new (to me) home earlier this year, and I now have about ten different projects underway to enhance/improve it (paint the exterior brick to change color of the house; sand/paint exterior woodwork; build patio cover; install new patio door; rebuild flower beds; build back yard fence; sod bare spots in lawn, etc. I totally renovated the interior, including sanding/staining/poly’ing the wood floors, before I moved in.
One attractive feature of the house is that it sits on 5.5 acres of huge pine trees. Unfortunately those trees---the 50 or so that surround the house itself---are also a huge detriment. Tornadoes are a common occurrence here, and the idea of those giant yellow pines being hurled across my roof and into my bedroom is very unsettling. One tree, a 36-incher just a few feet from my patio, was not only intimidating but inconvenient and a nuisance (pine needles everywhere), so I resolved to take it down before I got much further along with the fence.
I enlisted a young friend to do most of the heavy lifting. We circled the tree with a half-inch wire rope about 20 feet up. I stretched the wire rope to another tree about 100 feet away, with a comealong taking up the slack. Chris began sawing and I kept constant tension on the comealong. It didn’t take that Stihl Magnum w/25-inch bar very long to do the deed, and the tree fell exactly where we intended it to. If it had fallen in any other direction the outcome might not have been cheerful. It almost ruined my day anyway: even though I was standing beyond the crown of the tree when it fell, I came within inches of being flattened by some five-inch limbs from a sweetgum that the pine swatted on its way down. They landed all around me.
Now, 49 more to go. The real problem I face should be obvious: it’s not difficult to take down a big tree, but what do you do with it once it’s on the ground? My John Deere TRACTOR will come in handy, I know.
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