Dead oak uprooted, hung up over house

[Seamus_Walsh]

this is a yard on a steep angle where an oak uprooted and lodged in another a red oak above a house. Kind of a wooded back yard, so it's hard to tell distance to house but it's within range.

 

[Seamus_Walsh]

Plenty to work with for rigging and tie in

 

[Seamus_Walsh]

Rigging it up

 

[Seamus_Walsh]

Couldn't drop much because of house

 

[Seamus_Walsh]

had a rope on the bottom as well,

 

[Seamus_Walsh]

brush and some of log roped off, playin around

 

[Seamus_Walsh]

awesome rigger runnin the good

 

[Seamus_Walsh]

now we pulled it upright and then over, besides the line for the good, we had a line on each side to stabalize, one in a porty and one to a 4-1. no notch, root ball and all, totally uprooted

 

[Seamus_Walsh]

try again for the pic that didn't work

 

[Chief]

Looks hairy, nice job! Do work!

 

[Colin]

That's the good stuff!

 

[TLHamel]

Awesome Seamus! Very sketchy... great job getting it down safely. Stinkin' homeowners waiting too long to address the issue!

 

[woodturner]

Great Job! I love this stuff

 

[chris_girard]

Seamus, did you have a block set high in the tree for a fairlead down to the other block that leads to the GRCS?

Did you use a DWT to add MA for lifting the oak with the GRCS, and as you were lifting were you taking up slack on the Porty and letting out on the other stabilizer line to get the tree to swing in the direction that you wanted?

Awesome job. These are the kind of jobs that I love to work on. Did you do a load calculation to make sure the GRCS could lift the tree before you started?

 

[Roger_Barnett]

Bump. Great work, Seamus!! Gotta love storm work, for some technical challenges that seldom present themselves during normal tree work

 

[Seamus_Walsh]

Hey thanks guys!
Chris, the rope went up to another block maybe twenty five feet higher in the tree, with that, plus the grade change, we ended up with a great angle to pull the spar back. We didn't think an MA was needed, but at the last moment we decided to add a second pull line with an MA just for the extra pull, this is would be the fifth rope. not sure if i have any pics of that one( started to run out of crew at this point).