Hanging by a thread.

[Mark Chisholm]

Talk about lucky. This lead broke in a storm and was dangling over a home for three days. /forum/images/graemlins/eek.gif

Talk about luck.

 

[R_Schra]

Hi Mark,

What took you so long to get there and remove that limb /forum/images/graemlins/wink.gif? In those cases i work 24/24 to get property and residents save. (hard job after a storm to be in time everywhere when everybody is ringing.)

 

[Mark Chisholm]

That's true Ronald, it is hard to be everywhere. They were going to handle this by themselves and then called us. We went the next day since we were working on other jobs that day. Lucky for them it held.

 

[NickfromWI]

just wondering...

Good use of rigging in that picture...

 

[R_Schra]

Re: just wondering...

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Good use of rigging in that picture...

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Ehh Nick,

What do you mean here? As i see it that tree can be used to bolder on. When the load is rigged down you can stand back far enough i think? If not necessary i shouldnt work/bolder/walk under such a hanging limb. Sometimes it is necessary to do so and you calculate the risk.

Did you climb in there in that forked tree or worked with a high mount from an other tree Mark?

 

[Mark Chisholm]

Re: just wondering...

Nick,

Yes that is Juan.

Ronald, that was a bucket job. I rigged it with three lines and then Juan came in an cranked the stretch out of the rope before I cut it in the middle. When I cut it free, he was way outside the dropzone. No worries.

 

[johnmeiszner]

Re: just wondering...

[image]http://work 007[/image] did a picture go through?

 

[johnmeiszner]

Re: just wondering...

I took pictures of a "hanging by a thread" back on April 28th, but I'm really trying to figure out how to post pictures now. How do you make them smaller?

 

[davespencer]

Re: just wondering...

maybe we need a FAQ for the board so Glen does not have to explain this for the 1000th time.

I'm not bagging on you John, It's just that this comes up a lot.

Dave

 

[johnmeiszner]

Re: just wondering...

This is what I tried to show a few months ago.


This hole is right at the "elbow" of a good sized limb that goes out over the house (corner of house and gutter in upper left corner).

Extending down from below my toe you can kind of see where its cracked. ( the next attachment shows the same crack on the opposite side).

 

[johnmeiszner]

Re: just wondering...

I was hired to make this property with more than 15 mature trees in the backyard "safe". This was the second tree I climbed, and this client got his money's worth as soon as that limb was removed. There was so much weight on the end it could've failed on a calm day. He had just made a closing on the house, and was afraid to let his kids and dogs out in the backyard without the trees being worked on.
I was gonna wait till the fall cuz its a nice, huge oak. That's why I took the pictures.


I've been getting long-winded lately. I need to get a life. Its just that treebuzz is so much more relaxing than climbing. /forum/images/graemlins/lam.gif

 

[Tom Dunlap]

Re: just wondering...

It looks like red oak, is it? If so, you made a good decision to remove. The hollow and the cracks make limbs like that really weak.

 

[johnmeiszner]

Re: just wondering...

No. Check out the leaves (is elliptical the word, and glabrous). I've been calling them shingle oaks. I could be wrong. They're everywhere in this area, so I should know. And I don't think I'd seen one in Chicago. I'm trying to play it safe and assuming they're succeptible even though I haven't seen oak wilt around here.
They feel most like pin oak. And the brush 'grabs' & gets stuck on everything. PITA's.