Not sure what to make of that lol. But here's the killer tree a buddy wanted taken down for 500, I laughed. If the house wasn't bad enough, the thorns, and the nails in the dang thing surely would cost a bit more, just because I saw them. I did trim it off the house from the 12x12 pitch roof, and removed the elm growing up in the middle of it. Next phase is trimming all the dead limbs and taking down a few other trees on the side of the drive. Be careful out there guys .
Jeesh I came up against a dangerous situation I have never seen before cutting wood; wished I had a way to take a picture of it at the time, but maybe I can describe... There was an Ash sapling on the ground, maybe 5 inches in diameter. I had already cut part of a twitch so my twitch was sitting on one end, while the other was jammed under a boulder. So in order to pick up a few more trees for my twitch, I dropped two more. Not big, maybe 12 inches on the butt...anyway one of the two fell across a blowdown up into the air, then shot back along the ground and jammed up against the sapling. The only way to describe it was like a bow and arrow, the freshly felled tree being the arrow, and the sapling being the bow. AND that freshly felled tree, with all that weight wanting to fall to the ground put that sapling under tremendous strain. But you really could not see the danger if you did not really know it was there. Just touching that sapling with the saw would have made it explode it was under so much pressure. If I had done that I would have got a face full of Ash tree! I got out of the situation by hooking up my chokers to the second tree I felled, and then using the winch, snapped the sapling in half. It was the safest way to deal with that powder keg.
On FHC just posted a vid here. All of the additional smileys are here. Additional Smileys (oops forgot to add the link -edited) You can add some. Copy paste a few to a post. How to you guys do the user name in a post. I got an alert that I was mentioned - kinda cool.
Bingo, honey locust. Your right, I tell folks right up front that's the price is based on the hazards and it could go down, they like that, they don't like when I show them pictures of things I've hit. Fortunately it doesn't happen often, seems it happens when I don't tell them that . That's because of this, rock on lol. The elm beside Iron Maiden had grown around this paver stone . I already removed that tree and running the honey locust is one of the next on the list. The video below is one my buddy took of a box elder I removed, urban precision felling. If you look in the background you can see the beast next to the house.
Thanks for sharing this story with us Joe Seaton , I'm glad nothing serious happened. As we start winding up with all the chores out at the wood pile, take a few minutes to think about safety.
Picture of the ash bow please, EAB has devastated all ours, plan on them all being dead there too . Glad you got it out safe, those situations can be a real mess, I've been in one or two that I had no idea of the dangers beforehand and then the thing blows up in your face. Here's one I knew the dangers of, and the dangers came from above as expected, just not exactly how I expected. This happened pushing a black locust over with my Kubota, I saw it coming and hopped of with much time to spare, but it looks threatening. If you looked up at the wrong time could have taken an eye out.
It may come down for cheaper, but there are others too that I will make a few bucks on, but it is for a friend. One thing that is important is that he has some idea what I'm doing for him, which he has figured out a good bit more about the costs already. I'll say this, I may be cutting it, but don't plan on moving it . The thorns in the canopy are an inch long and very sharp.
