Today....

L3VI said:
Oof... what a long week... We worked for some of our favorite clients today to round it out. Nicest couple you can imagine and he makes these insane sculptures out of scrap metal. I'm grateful to know these folks, I really don't like most of our clients tbh but these peeps are super rad. :cool:


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Those sculptures are dope. The owl is my favorite.
 
Got the call for a failed pine today while I happened to be like 3 minutes down the road. Left the job I was on to assess, one large horizontal stem already failed and was laying in a holly and into the neighbors yard, while the main stem has started splitting in two. It SEEMS stable for the moment, but I'm getting to work first thing in the morning. It's a wide tree in a tight (by our standards) space between houses, but chip truck access is good, and first order of business will be to use pole tools to get as much weight off the splitting pieces before I'll even consider going into the tree. Something a little different, should be fun.

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27RMT0N said:
Got the call for a failed pine today while I happened to be like 3 minutes down the road. Left the job I was on to assess, one large horizontal stem already failed and was laying in a holly and into the neighbors yard, while the main stem has started splitting in two. It SEEMS stable for the moment, but I'm getting to work first thing in the morning. It's a wide tree in a tight (by our standards) space between houses, but chip truck access is good, and first order of business will be to use pole tools to get as much weight off the splitting pieces before I'll even consider going into the tree. Something a little different, should be fun.

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Pair of heavy duty ratchet straps come to mind here.
 
Arb23 said:
Nah, I think it's a grey rat snake. Harmless I think - actually good to keep around for pest control, but I didn't know these f*!$@*s could climb. I wouldn't want to meet one 30' up.
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Neighbor down the street had 2 on their roof a couple weeks ago about the same size. My son retrieved them and we relocated them to another neighborhood. They are excellent climbers. had one a number of years ago that climbed up our outside brick and poked its head out by the kitchen window. Scared my wife pretty good. That snake would turn up each summer about the same time for the next 4 years or so, each year being a good bit bigger. Last we saw it was about 6 feet long.
 
96coal449 said:
Pair of heavy duty ratchet straps come to mind here.
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I thought about it (and have them in my truck), but doubt it would help. The tree is so large and there is so much material on both sides of that split, and I have no leverage/height advantage where I'd normally want to install any kind of temporary support above a split like that that I felt it would either fail regardless of what I did, or hang on till tomorrow.

Also, I was thinking about a thread here a while back I think where people discussed installing such emergency support, and that it may count as basically saying you've made the tree safe until your return and that it won't fail, thus holding yourself liable if it does. I don't know if that is true, but I do see some sense in the idea/concern. I also felt if I got into it at all, I'd feel the need to just start working all evening to 'make it even safer' before leaving for the night...

The tree actually failed yesterday, and she said it hadn't moved at all since then, so I think it will hold out one more day.
 
27RMT0N said:
I thought about it (and have them in my truck), but doubt it would help. The tree is so large and there is so much material on both sides of that split, and I have no leverage/height advantage where I'd normally want to install any kind of temporary support above a split like that that I felt it would either fail regardless of what I did, or hang on till tomorrow.

Also, I was thinking about a thread here a while back I think where people discussed installing such emergency support, and that it may count as basically saying you've made the tree safe until your return and that it won't fail, thus holding yourself liable if it does. I don't know if that is true, but I do see some sense in the idea/concern. I also felt if I got into it at all, I'd feel the need to just start working all evening to 'make it even safer' before leaving for the night...

The tree actually failed yesterday, and she said it hadn't moved at all since then, so I think it will hold out one more day.
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Your thoughts are understood. I was implying for when you actually do the work. My buddy removed a Siberian elm with a huge split, 1-2'' wide, between codominant leaders. We used 2 ratchet straps, and watched the split close up while weight was reduced up top. I have a Siberian elm in my yard with a co dominate split. Also have an old growth, huge, black locust with the same hazard. I'll be ratcheting them and working slow and easy in them.
 
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