Re: Slightly OT: Chainsaw/felling question
- From: "Swingman" <kac@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2006 09:48:23 -0600
"Leon" wrote in message
> section over. With the section now hanging down you cut the rest of the
way
> through and let the section drop.
> If you are simply taking out limbs tie the rope to the limb that you are
> going to remove, toss the rope over a higher limb and let your helper
lower
> the limb after you have cut it clear of the tree.
There are some who take this to a choreographed art form. One company I hire
to take down trees close to other houses prior to construction has a crew
that is masterful at the technique.
The guy up the tree with the chainsaw, while kin to a monkey, is not the
most impressive of the two. The 'rope guy' on the ground is the one who
makes the whole thing work by releasing the rope at just the appropriate
time during the cutoff's swing.
By timing the release, he can make a four foot section of limb/trunk fall in
the back of a dump truck parked 30 feet away, like slam dunking a
basketball.
Just watching generally shuts up all the tree hugging neighbors who come out
to bitch about the tree being taking down.
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