Usually we do. These were not freshly installed they have been there for at least 10 years. Plus this job was just get it off the house! (the home was condemed by the city).
The cut was what we call a "jump cut" First an undercut in the direction of the tension, then a top cut directly on top of the under cut. Yes it was tensioned as much as we could. My spelling is horrible I should not post late at night and in a hurry.
Yes double whip tackle. A two to one advantage at the floaing bolck. The hard part was the co doms and having to rig that to two parts of the tree. The ropes were 5/8 double braid. If you look at the rigging at the point on the tree you will see the rope traveling at a low angle to the back side...
Once we were at the final contact point we cranked the 2 dwt's as hard as we could with the winches and the tree did not budge. I told a crew member to cut it at the base. He did and the tree popped off the roof and slammed to the rigging pretty hard hit the ground and recoiled back off the...