woke up to this to-day

[skyhuck]

 

My best advice Sandy is to have someone with good experience of that kind of windblow to come have a look.

 

Good advice

[sandy2210]

thanks for all the advice will try and take it onboard wind was nearly as bad again to-day so kept away from it for another day

[JimM]

Let us know how you progress with it Sandy. Pics too.

[Mesterh]

Looks like a good sized root plate that could easily pop back into its hole judging by the angle and take someones head off if they dont get it right!

 

Definitely worth a series of pics when it gets worked on.

[sandy2210]

oh well after looking at it for an hour yesterday finally tackled it to-day first attached 2 winches to the stem just at the root one attached to landrover winch and tirfor to copper beech (the tree with the swing on)just to make shure it did not go back suddenly ,then cut a gob out of underneath the stem near the root then came down from the top leaving a hinge exactly as you would if it was still standing with a couple of wedges in from the top -then removed all he small stuff from the bit of the crown throwing it out of the way so I had an escape road clear by now i was getting worried that if the root did go back it would be heavyer than the l/rover (and its not mine) took the winches off and cut bits off the limbs till the root started to go back very slowly until the hinge broke and root went down where it was nicely rest as they say was easy

ps that wee squirrel was around all day

[Rob D]

Way to go,nibble the crown back after dismantling the upper limb,take small pieces & you will know when its getting ready to sit up again,pole saw job keeps it safe.

 

 

Ditto above. Reduce all the easy to reach bits of the crown first in small stages then re assess. If you haven't a pole saw then a saw with a longer bar can be handy....

[Rob D]

Doh should have read through the later posts...

[sandy2210]

yep took a lot of you arbtalkers advice mixed with some good old experience ant a lot of common sense!!!!!!! thanks guys

[JimM]

What you want to do now is get yourself on the Cs34,35 course. It does need 32 first.

 

A couple of ghillies at an estate over my way did it alongside me a couple of weeks ago. Great course and would have taken any of your worries away and given you the right ideas to tackle it. Well done for sorting it and thanks for the description and pictures.

[daddyola50]

easy to say as im not there, but small gob then bore cut back leaving hinge,then break its back .if not happy with that remove top limb first and work the rest back,in small bits . if not sure be safe and let a more experianced cutter do it. cheers