Difficult tree on house

[treemann]

I got a page last night about a tree broken and sitting on a two story house. When I arrived at 8:00 a.m. I found an 80 foot tall Tulip tree that had been hit by lightning first then the wind blew and half of the tree fill on the house and the other half was hanging precariously over the power lines and the neighbors house. My first thought was a crane but I couldn't locate anyone that could get a crane to me immediately and I did not feel comfortable leaving the tree until tomorrow. So I rigged it out and it took about 5 hours from laying out protection for the yard to blowing the sawdust off of the drive. /forum/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[treemann]

I had to set lines to support the part standing so that I could rig a speed line off of it

 

[treemann]

Her is a piece moving towards the drop zone

 

[treemann]

And another

 

[treemann]

At one point I had 7 ropes off the truck either holding the broken part from sliding off the roof, supporting the part still standing or holding other loose piieces from sliding off the roof while I was rigging out larger pieces. And there was no additional damage to the house that was caused by me. Just 6 holes in the roof and a broken peak caused when the tree fell.

 

[murse]

nice work treemann, thanks for the pics

 

[tod_k]

Looked like quite a challenge. Nice rigging of the speed line.

 

[Colin]

Nice website!

 

[treemann]

Thank you everyone

 

[Mark Chisholm]

Nice work TM!

 

[tnttree]

good pictures nice job, you the hero and you get paid, what a great profession

 

[Norm_Hall]

Dang,
Looks like a very challenging tree. Nice job securing and removing it. Thanks for sharing the pics.