southsoundtree
Been here much more than a while
- Location
- Olympia, WA
Nothing too fancy, but a good removal project on a topped tree.
The stump is quarted in the picture. Both front muffler bolts came out of my MS361 while Ben was bucking up the trunk wood. I had to cut the stump with an 026, thankfully it was so rotten that it was easy.
Not knowing if the tree was "leaning more than it used to", or how bad the decay in the stem was, we rigged all the oversized limbs and the top into the adjacent tree. What could be cut and chucked, I did with a handsaw. Pretty much just deadwood. Everything that lived through the topping grew with those funny shaped limbs of a topped D-fir.
We were able to make a crash pad at the base of the tree for the trunk wood, but had to keep a rope on each piece because the trunk was at the lip of a steep downhill toward the fence and shed.
The whole stem leaned to about 75 to 80 degrees above horizontal, over the slope of the hill, and the main top leaned further down the hill, with some side lean, putting it right over the shed.
I didn't want to climb above the old topping wound. That's why I needed it to stall before flipping over, to avoid the shed below.
Fun working on a dry day in January on Puget Sound.
We finished the trunk wood today, and took the picture of the rot.
He's Colin RADS-ing up the keeper (for now, at least, also many times topped) to retrieve the rigging gear. You can get an idea of scale. Colin is about 6'2". He is at around 50' at this point. The lowest limb (at around 60') on the big D-F is probably 9-12" on the butt and 40' long, reaching over the tree being removed.
You can get an idea of the view. Sometimes, I miss out on such things as I am climbing, rigging, planning,and double-checking the operation. Ben and Colin do a good job that keeps me from having to double-check/ micro-manage too much.
The stump is quarted in the picture. Both front muffler bolts came out of my MS361 while Ben was bucking up the trunk wood. I had to cut the stump with an 026, thankfully it was so rotten that it was easy.
Not knowing if the tree was "leaning more than it used to", or how bad the decay in the stem was, we rigged all the oversized limbs and the top into the adjacent tree. What could be cut and chucked, I did with a handsaw. Pretty much just deadwood. Everything that lived through the topping grew with those funny shaped limbs of a topped D-fir.
We were able to make a crash pad at the base of the tree for the trunk wood, but had to keep a rope on each piece because the trunk was at the lip of a steep downhill toward the fence and shed.
The whole stem leaned to about 75 to 80 degrees above horizontal, over the slope of the hill, and the main top leaned further down the hill, with some side lean, putting it right over the shed.
I didn't want to climb above the old topping wound. That's why I needed it to stall before flipping over, to avoid the shed below.
Fun working on a dry day in January on Puget Sound.
We finished the trunk wood today, and took the picture of the rot.
He's Colin RADS-ing up the keeper (for now, at least, also many times topped) to retrieve the rigging gear. You can get an idea of scale. Colin is about 6'2". He is at around 50' at this point. The lowest limb (at around 60') on the big D-F is probably 9-12" on the butt and 40' long, reaching over the tree being removed.
You can get an idea of the view. Sometimes, I miss out on such things as I am climbing, rigging, planning,and double-checking the operation. Ben and Colin do a good job that keeps me from having to double-check/ micro-manage too much.
