De-Christmas Lighting a Norway Spruce

[Jesse]

This was a pretty interesting little job, about an eighty foot Norway Spruce with more lights on it than you would believe. Nearly every limb had lights zip tied all the way to the tip. The zip ties were starting to girdle the limbs. It must have taken a week to install. It took us with a climber and a bucket nearly all day to remove them.

 

[Jesse]

Here is a close up of the zip-tie girdling. The branches were starting to look like sausage links.

 

[Jesse]

Nathan working sniping zip-tie after zip-tie.

 

[Jesse]

This isn't even all of the lights.

 

[Blinky]

Nice. I do a big Post Oak every year. It's one of my favorite volunteer jobs.

 

[Tom Dunlap]

Did the installer foot the bill for deinstalling his improper work?

Will this happen again next October?

 

[Fernhorn]

Something about this thread has wronged my screen.

Looks like a nice mellow quiet climb in the tree. Cool.

 

[Jesse]

New property owner footed the bill but has no plans of reinstalling lights.

 

[Blinky]

They were intended to be permanent? Bummer.
We leave'em in rhe post oak from November to February. We couldn't get them out until after bud break this year because of weather so we cut them out rather than recovering the strands intact... It was delicate work.
25' bamboo poles with hooks make it a lot easier to drape and lift the wires.

 

[cdekkema]

Did an arborist install these lights? How did they get that high on the tips with zip ties? a hydro friend with a bucket truck? A gnargly homeowner playing with liqour and ladders?