Another interesting problem

[Mark Bolam]

You've got it mate!

[spandit]

Not sure if the other comments were p*sstaking or not. It's a big tree and under a lot of tension - I know what you professionals think of keen amateurs. I'll take a picture closer up to show how big it is

[Mark Bolam]

I reckon that's a bit more of a pig of a job than it looks to be honest.

 

I take it those rails are mortised in?

[Mark Bolam]

Beat me to it mate.

More pics would be great.

[spandit]

1 minute ago, Mark Bolam said:

I reckon that's a bit more of a pig of a job than it looks to be honest.

 

I take it those rails are mortised in?

Yes. Think it's leaning on a post - I'll try to get some pictures soon

[Jack.P]

If not confident on this one You could Wait till Sunday as it’s ment to get bit windy so might be on the floor by then or how about getting some hay bails packed up above the fence to protect the rails and make a few gradual cuts further down nearer the ground .

it can be a pig to split for firewood .easier to just dump it back on his land

[Stubby]

40 minutes ago, Jack.P said:

If not confident on this one You could Wait till Sunday as it’s ment to get bit windy so might be on the floor by then or how about getting some hay bails packed up above the fence to protect the rails and make a few gradual cuts further down nearer the ground .

it can be a pig to split for firewood .easier to just dump it back on his land

If its got that helical grain that it sometimes has then yea you need some mechanical advantage . Split when green as it goes off like concrete .  

[Rough Hewn]

He's said I can fell it. I don't think I'm suitably qualified enough to handle something like that. Lot of tension in it and even to cut a gob in it would be higher than I'd be comfortable with

Get a professional in.
Whereabouts are you?
[emoji106]

[Haironyourchest]

That's a polesaw job for sure. Bind the stem with multiple winds of a two inch ratchet straps, on both sides of the fence to prevent barber chair. Small notch on the underside a couple of feet from the fence, then backcut. They look about 8 inches thick, got to be sure the polesaw blade is ling enough to pass through the whole stem from one side. Lidl polesaw, with extension, or just make something with a new handsaw blade bolted to a long plank and don't bother with an undercut. It is dangerous, to cut this up close.

[Dan Maynard]

I wouldn't mess about with a pole saw, fence out.