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I don't get it. Why put a winch (tied on too low) on such small trees that you could push by hand or use a felling lever.

Maybe the men in the picture are 16ft tall and the trees are bigger than they appear.

Or maybe 120mph wind in the wrong direction.

Maybe I'm missing something.

 

 

Why is the winch cable too low? I've felled trees much bigger than that with the winch cable not much higher, if the winch has got the power there's not much point in climbing it surely?

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Rather telling n depressing day to be honest.

 

Sudden Oak Death(Phytopthora ramorum) is knocking off most of the elderly coast live oaks in San Diego county, trees 8 times older than I, toast.

 

Today's job reminded me of the stark difference between arboriculturally astute clients compared to run of the mill homeowners.

 

Sequoia semps or coast redwoods are the tallest trees in the world currently, but the CA drought has put the screws to them here in S D county, not actually killing them, but browning them out enough to give the false appearance of death by simply looking at them from 20 feet away.

 

Upon close inspection however, new green foliage is discernible on almost every main lateral. Almost as if they're mimicking Dawn Redwoods(Metasequoia glyptostroboides) when they brown out n play dead annually.

 

My arboriculturally astute clients informed of the play dead appearance of their coast redwoods take my recs to simply give them a deep watering every other week rather than remove them because they look dead.

 

But today's client didn't care, insisting it be removed whether dead or alive, simply because the fire dept declared it dead and a hazard. 70 feet's small for the species, but here locally is not bad for a fairly rare tree in this county.

 

At least my brother'll have some decent lumber to turn or burn!

 

Even buzzard's can have a conscience I guess.

 

Jomoco

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