A poor felling job

A tow truck, huh?


That's rich. I wonder what the guy does for a living? If he's retired, there is no explanation needed.

When I first saw the photos, I was relieved he wasn't hurt, well, I still am relieved he wasn't hurt. But now he will tell everyone how easy it is to hire a tow truck than pay an arborist for tree extraction.


Obviously, a tow truck is more powerful, but the downside is, it can't identify the species it is yanking on.
 
What was the difference in price between the tow truck and a new winch cable, and what you estimated...perhaps you should point that out to him. Where I'm from, we have names for people like that. personally, I would have told him to find another arbo, arrogant prick!
 
He said the tow truck was $75. My price was $150. I find it hard to believe though because it is 20 min to anywhere close.
 
Seen a similar scenario to this in Holland, in Amsterdamse Bos a few years back. I came back to the lads after doing some cross cutting in another area of the Bos, who were practicing for there heavy felling course to fínd a couple of hung up trees.

One of the hung up trees (Ash) fell directly between the fork of a 75ft high Acer, with a stem of about 2.5ft wide, only to find that they had cut the Ash stem to free it from the original cut stump from felling. This big Ash was balancing at about 10-12 ft up from ground level. The Ash was of a similar width also, I basically asked what he going to do, to the reply "I am going to fell the Acer to free everything" to my reply "NO YOUR NOT!" well maybe there was the odd swear word added. After telling him on certain do and donts. Gave him an alternative to climb the neighbouring tree, and cut the ash tree free from the Acer stem. As we where in a woodland we could knock it out big and there was no clear up either. That went down like a lead balloon, as he did not want to climb up the other tree. What ended up happening was they wrapped a Tirfor steel cable round the ash stem (some throwing went on to get that sucker up 10-12ft) pulled it tight and ripped it out with a 360° Tire crane. The force was that powerfull it twisted the Acer stem and ripped it apart also. Shame for that poor old Acer tree.

Everybody learns a lesson or two and even get to tell a tale or two...afterwards

Scotty

Scotty
 
Hey Guys, this is my first post, so bear with me! lol

Great info on the homeowner expert with the winch! It is truely amazing how someone who is an account for a living can tell us how to exactly do our jobs properly!

Warning, I am long winded! lol

I've been in for 16 years now. I live in Calgary Alberta. Two + years ago, we were called in on a 'blow down incident' job in Canmore. Canmore is a town just east of Banff in the Canadian Rockies. We were working in the resort community of 'Silvertip'. The developers thought is was a good idea to build a community of $1 million homes on the side of a mountain in a forest of 120' Lodge Pole Pines. All I can say is use your imaginations!

So anyway, once the storm rolled through, thousands of freakin' tall trees were uprooted and just plain smashed to bits? (The best....23 LPP's on one house!)

So to finally get to my point, like the ash pics, once the pressure is released from the tree to the root ball, guess what?, the rootball returns to it's natural place...the ground!! So this one idiot homeowner decides to do this himself. When the rootball collapsed, his three year old was playing in the freakin' hole!! Fortunatly there were enough of his idiot neighbours there as spectators to free her, but she was almost compleatly buried, and father of the year had cut the trunk about 10' from the root crown, so they at least had some mechanical advantage in their favour! Sigh....


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