ash top explosion

Drumbo · Mar 9, 2017

not the most exciting video but I just wanted to show how crispy these things are

JD3000 · Mar 9, 2017

Another reason to stay way the hell out of a drop zone.

Steve Connally · Mar 9, 2017

How can you be certain it's safe to climb?

Drumbo · Mar 10, 2017

Gotta get er dun, am I right?

But really the tree didn't have any defects or decay that worried me, aside from it being stone dead. It was pretty much a pole with a small top so I wasn't worried about the integrity of any major unions failing.

After stripping that one I rigged a whole tree down to it and it held up like a champ, and it certainly took a beating.

I have been in and seen a lot of ash trees over the past few years and you can kind of start to get a feel for them after a while.

Or maybe I am just an idiot, I have no idea.

colb · Mar 10, 2017

Drumbo said:
Gotta get er dun, am I right?

But really the tree didn't have any defects or decay that worried me, aside from it being stone dead. It was pretty much a pole with a small top so I wasn't worried about the integrity of any major unions failing.

After stripping that one I rigged a whole tree down to it and it held up like a champ, and it certainly took a beating.

I have been in and seen a lot of ash trees over the past few years and you can kind of start to get a feel for them after a while.

Or maybe I am just an idiot, I have no idea.

It's the roots that I worry about, on good lookin' dead trees. I only climb the occasional dead tree so far. Maybe one per year.

matdand · Mar 10, 2017

Wow! I am glad I bought a spider lift, no more of that!

CutHighnLetFly · Mar 17, 2017

CHIPPED!

Daniel · Mar 23, 2017

pretty cool... nice to see it float down and away....
My mentor always warned me about dead ash. He never trusted them.... The roots can can be quite bad when the top looks solid... I wasn't that uptight, but then again he was the one that had a tree drop right out from under him when he made a similar cut as shown in your vid.. That kond of thing will change your attitude quick.. Of course he'd be dead if he wasn't tied into another tree at the time..

tc262 · Mar 23, 2017

Ash gets crispy and brittle really fast. I won't climb a dead one if there's not something else to tie into nearby.

waross · Mar 23, 2017

I feel you as far as Ash exploding. We had a medium size tree with nice canopy spread that was easily felled in the backyard of the clients home. Had the tree down in 20 minutes. It disintegrated upon hitting the ground and spent five hours picking up all the little pieces of the darn thing. Brittle as could be.