I posted this a couple other places...interested to know what you all think. My first pick with a crane, not the most perfect, but hey there is always the first one!
90' Norfolk Island pine, it was 42" across at the base once I got it down. A lot of the branches were 20' long or more, and well over 6" in thickness.
It was in front of a newly renovated house, slight lean towards the neighbours, it had shed branches like confetti during hurricane Fabian and the HO said the ground was heaving 6-8" all around. Since then they trenched near it, about 12' away, severed some 4" roots,lots of machinery compaction...it had some sap weeping low down on the trunk, but the crown and looked healthy and the trunk flare was undamaged. The target was the million dollar renovation, family with three kids, one neighbour's house in range. I could not definitively say it would be fine during the next 100mph+ blow...so they decided to take it down, I think the neighbours all breathed a collective sigh of relief.
SO it got done the day before hurricane Bill brushed by
I was SO glad I decided to use a crane, I think I would have still been working on it if I hadn't.
Once it was down, you could see discolouration of the heartwood, and it was damp and stinky. There were loads of punky stumps full of ants from where the branches had snapped off six years ago. I still feel a bit bad having to remove it, but it was a rush doing it!!
90' Norfolk Island pine, it was 42" across at the base once I got it down. A lot of the branches were 20' long or more, and well over 6" in thickness.
It was in front of a newly renovated house, slight lean towards the neighbours, it had shed branches like confetti during hurricane Fabian and the HO said the ground was heaving 6-8" all around. Since then they trenched near it, about 12' away, severed some 4" roots,lots of machinery compaction...it had some sap weeping low down on the trunk, but the crown and looked healthy and the trunk flare was undamaged. The target was the million dollar renovation, family with three kids, one neighbour's house in range. I could not definitively say it would be fine during the next 100mph+ blow...so they decided to take it down, I think the neighbours all breathed a collective sigh of relief.
SO it got done the day before hurricane Bill brushed by
I was SO glad I decided to use a crane, I think I would have still been working on it if I hadn't.
Once it was down, you could see discolouration of the heartwood, and it was damp and stinky. There were loads of punky stumps full of ants from where the branches had snapped off six years ago. I still feel a bit bad having to remove it, but it was a rush doing it!!
