Solo Codominant Maple Removal

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  • Опубліковано 3 жов 2024
  • Constructive critiques and alternate ideas on this removal are welcome. Thanks for watching and commenting. This codominant maple had been used as an anchor tree for a tree house (long since removed). The lag screws used for the tree house had introduced some decay, the tree was leaning over the neighbor's fence, and there was reaction wood at the base indicating basal rot. Those hazards combined with the codominant trunks made for a pretty hazardous tree.
    I tip tied the top of the taller (~80 foot tall) trunk and pulled it over to an anchor point in an adjacent white oak, tying the rigging line off on a port a wrap. A GRCS would have made the job easier but a home made mechanical advantage system worked well, even if I had to reset the prussic 10-15 times.
    To make the first cut I had to climb above a trunk fusion. Since the anchor point in the white oak was more or less the same height as the tip tie, I couldn't get much lift on the piece I was cutting so I pinched my bar a couple of times and ultimately had to shave away at the under side of the notch to get the trunk to fall. When it finally fell, it buried itself about 18 inches into the moist ground. Next time I would make the tip tie lower so I could get more lift from the rigging line. I also had a rope on the butt end of the piece so that it didn't swing over and hit the white oak, but that ended up not needed because the trunk dropped so fast.
    I tip tied the remaining trunk and cut the rest of the tree off at ground level.
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  • @Bluecollar711
    @Bluecollar711 5 років тому

    Great job

  • @alltree78
    @alltree78 5 років тому

    Ive started doing this more and more if its the right situation. Theres something kinda cool about hanging whole trees in the air and lowering them precisely as you cut them

  • @lucfournier3939
    @lucfournier3939 5 років тому +1

    Looks like you had fun.😃