60' Silver Maple Dismantle

recycledsole · February 12, 2013

Did this basically solo with a few hours of help from the wife.

I posted a thread for advice a while back and thanks so much for everyones help i really appreciate it. Some of you asked for pictures

http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/rigging-roping/52992-how-would-you-rig-tree.html

Here they are

Jesse · February 12, 2013

Did this basically solo with a few hours of help from the wife.

I posted a thread for advice a while back and thanks so much for everyones help i really appreciate it. Some of you asked for pictures

http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/rigging-roping/52992-how-would-you-rig-tree.html

Here they are

You dun good mate, thats just how i like to leave a site for me groundy :lol: Hope you made the wife sweat , treat em mean keep'em keen :lol:

recycledsole · February 13, 2013

Basically i got up as high as a could to tie the anchor. Then went down and cut all the lower branches i could without any kind of rigging. Then attatched a pull line to one of the main branches and toped it with the pull line. which seemed very stressful and kind of unesecary. then i set up my anchor on two of the main branches. (picture coming soon) this made me feel a lot more comfortable to walk out close to the tips of the branches overhanging the greenhouse. I got 90% of those down with the hand saw (silky). I either cut and chucked or caught with webbing girth hitch or rigged with the webbing lower on the branch. Then i did step cuts chogging down, which were easy. the pieces were usually about 2 feet. At last there was one main branch left to top. i topped the 2 branches on it about 15' down and they were fine. the only targets were 2 shrubs in the yard and 1 large greenhouse. a piece of dead wood punctured the green house , but i did not let anything land on it that i cut. just a little 2 ft by 1 inch piece that was stuck in the tree! its ok. then i set the pull line. made the notch. made the back cut very methodically as the tree was leaning towards greenhouse. then finally i was able to pull the tree forward with the 3 to 1 system.

THANKS!

Here they are. I will be adding more from different cameras in the next few days.

1) You can see the silver maple

2) the last 25'. i used a 3 to 1 system with micro pulley and a block cow hitched to a neighboring tree.

3) I did the tree 98% alone so i had to be creative. I used some logs to weigh the pull line down when felling the trunk. I am estimating that this gave me about 450LB of pressure.

thank you again. you all helped me to accomplish this. thank you

-Jesse, thanks alot. i have to clean that up... i have a dump trailer... maybe someone will be able to help out!

Jesse · February 13, 2013

Basically i got up as high as a could to tie the anchor. Then went down and cut all the lower branches i could without any kind of rigging. Then attatched a pull line to one of the main branches and toped it with the pull line. which seemed very stressful and kind of unesecary. then i set up my anchor on two of the main branches. (picture coming soon) this made me feel a lot more comfortable to walk out close to the tips of the branches overhanging the greenhouse. I got 90% of those down with the hand saw (silky). I either cut and chucked or caught with webbing girth hitch or rigged with the webbing lower on the branch. Then i did step cuts chogging down, which were easy. the pieces were usually about 2 feet. At last there was one main branch left to top. i topped the 2 branches on it about 15' down and they were fine. the only targets were 2 shrubs in the yard and 1 large greenhouse. a piece of dead wood punctured the green house , but i did not let anything land on it that i cut. just a little 2 ft by 1 inch piece that was stuck in the tree! its ok. then i set the pull line. made the notch. made the back cut very methodically as the tree was leaning towards greenhouse. then finally i was able to pull the tree forward with the 3 to 1 system.
THANKS!

Here they are. I will be adding more from different cameras in the next few days.

1) You can see the silver maple

2) the last 25'. i used a 3 to 1 system with micro pulley and a block cow hitched to a neighboring tree.

3) I did the tree 98% alone so i had to be creative. I used some logs to weigh the pull line down when felling the trunk. I am estimating that this gave me about 450LB of pressure.

thank you again. you all helped me to accomplish this. thank you

-Jesse, thanks alot. i have to clean that up... i have a dump trailer... maybe someone will be able to help out!

You did really well and i mean that , but i would have been more impressed if it was your wife who did it, the up the tree bit stuff that is. :thumbup1: