My property has been logged a few times and been through several owners in the last decade so it is fun to look out for past worm. I was walking the woods a few weeks back and found this hanging out. A 15" diameter tree, good hinge when they tried to drop it. Looks like someone dropped it, had it snag in a most unlucky way, and said "screw it, I'm done" and walked away. I'll have to browse the forum from 2004 to see if anyone asked how to deal with this!
There is definitely an untold story there. If you feel like practicing your lasoing you could rope the end with a looonng rope and pull it down with a winch or if you can get your truck in there tie off on your hitch. Do you know what kind of tree it is?
Two options short of equipment. Push something into the hangers and try to break things up. With a quick prayer as you exit stag left Astronomically more interesting and ticklish. Get in there and cut up that mess holding everything, then push it with something BIG. I don’t know Vt hardwood but if it gets super cold again sometimes brittle wood can be hugely helpful. Listen and pay attention to your Spidy senses. This is the adrenaline fix for a saw driver. If you’re shaking and thinking WTF at the end, you win. Don’t forget pictures and video. Just don’t show your wife, they don’t like things like this. Owl
Long bar saw, small notch, gravity. I would caveat that by saying you need to ensure the tree isn’t splitting down the center first. Lots of danger there, so if not manageable, leave it for another day!
I'd probably have to leave that one, ain't worth the danger! I walked away from a beauty of a scary white oak last year, sure wanted it, lol.
I’d pull the leaner first. It’s sitting on top of the see saw so there’s less chance it will slide down the fork and get pinched. If you have something to pull it I’d say it would be pretty easy. The see saw will be trickier. If you can get one end near the ground you can cut some off and it may flop back and forth. There’s danger in that of course. Having a tree see sawing back and forth in front of your face. Lighten it up enough maybe you can pull it out of the fork. Or the old stand by of tree felling gone bad. Drop an even bigger tree across it hoping something will break it up LOL. Rarely works as hoped.
I appreciate the advice for getting it down. It's a pretty old and mossy log and not over a trail or anything, so I'll be leaving it for now. Maybe some day I will be skilled enough to deal with a situation like this (and better wood), but I've got some other blow down to practice on.
Sure! Dont it plenty of times. And one handed with a top handle. I dont recommend it, but many years of experience using ladders and saws helps. I was kidding Trueg50.
It looks like there's two trees hung up in that tree. Hung up is how I get half of my red maple out of the swamp. So I've done my share of whittling a leaner down and getting a bar stuck every now and then. I finally got a capstan winch which saves me some time and precarious cutting.
If it’s covered in moss and been up there that long probably all punky and not worth looking at unless you are interested in compost.
If you cannot get back in there with a winch, then use a come along. I would pull it down before doing anything else to it.
