Storm Damage

[tod_k]

This very large oak smashed this house.

 

[tod_k]

Half of the brush was bent up in the adjacent oak, the other half was on the house. Thr brunt of the wood was on the house. It was around 50"

 

[tod_k]

We had a 40 ton crane in the front but it was 70' away, only good for around 2,500lbs. It was able to get everything off the house untill the final contact point.

 

[tod_k]

Heres half the brush on the roof half in the other oak. Lots of tension wood in the wood. Lots of small cuts by hand. It was also very hot!

 

[tod_k]

Lots of big wood needed to be rigged into the oak. we needed to use a DWT

 

[tod_k]

Opps wrong pic.

 

[tod_k]

2 porta wraps and 2 grcs,s.

 

[tod_k]

We decided the crane was no good after we removed all of the contact point. Now what do we do?

 

[tod_k]

jason rigging another DWT to the oak, I rigged the tree.

 

[tod_k]

On that last pic the crane is removing the last peice it can. The DWT's need to be rigged to two sides of the oak because of a large co-dom.

 

[tod_k]

Once we were at the final contact point we cranked the 2 dwt's as hard as we could with the winches and the tree did not budge. I told a crew member to cut it at the base. He did and the tree popped off the roof and slammed to the rigging pretty hard hit the ground and recoiled back off the ground from the ropes and tree bending back. We used a small (10,000lbs) Kubota tractor with a grapple bucket to remove the wood. Glad that job is done!

 

[Tom Dunlap]

Whew!!! Big wood! Nice job once again.

It looks like the roots were rotted off. Is that the case? In the 183009 post I don't see any tapered roots, just blunt ends.

 

[countryboypa31]

Great job thanks for posting these jobs. Really educational. You do some real nice work.

 

[Jman]

what is DWT?

 

[Winterbush]

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what is DWT?

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I am not familiar with the term either, Nice job though.

 

[Sylvia]

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It looks like the roots were rotted off. Is that the case? In the 183009 post I don't see any tapered roots, just blunt ends.

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We were thinking the same thing. When was the house built, out of curiosity, and was the grade changed?

Damage can take a long time to show up...I would be looking at the surviving trees....

Sylvia

 

[RogerM]

Double Whip Tackle or Double whip technique. A mechanical advantage system....
My question Todd, when cutting the base, how did he go about it? Was all of the tension still in the system and did he face cut it or was it a straight directional cut. From your description, it sound like it was pretensioned and pretty exciting when it finally moved. Good thing, from the pictures, the structure was already severely damaged no? What was the red rigging line you guys used? As always, impressive.

 

[tod_k]

Tons of construction damage plus tons watering. Home is 10 years old. I think your right on.

 

[tod_k]

Yes double whip tackle. A two to one advantage at the floaing bolck. The hard part was the co doms and having to rig that to two parts of the tree. The ropes were 5/8 double braid. If you look at the rigging at the point on the tree you will see the rope traveling at a low angle to the back side of the tree to another block to the winch so we do not split the co dom. It is very hard to paint a picture with poor pics.

 

[Winterbush]

AAAAAAHHHHHH HA! still awesome. good job!