Widow makers and vines

Out cutting some standing dead maples around this big cherry, top on the bottom picture caught a vine and popped back. I ran a few steps but it clipped my arm ever so lightly. Good reminder for when I drop the big cherry though be safe and hoard on

 

That sure is one tangled mess near the top of the tree.

 

We've got a ton of bittersweet and grapevine around here, thick enough to hang up an 80' to 90' poplar and swing the butt end backward. I like to cut all the vines headed up any trees I need to take and let them weather for at least a year if I can manage it. At that point there is a much higher probability they'll part as the tree falls and not cause it to change course too drastically.

 

i HATE cutting vine entangled trees. Felled a couple dead Eastern Red Cedars last month with the tops a major tangle of vines...major PITA! Be safe and hoard on

 

Is it an old nest of some sort??

 

Yikes, glad it didn't get you any worse. Looks like there is still a hanger up to the left. How big is that cherry? Looks massive in the pic.

 

When we least expect it seems to be the way of it. Glad it wasn't worse.