I'll have to look at it in the day again. But the lower branches, which are big could be bore cut and dropped individually, then drop the tops and once short enough, drop the rest.
From what I see in the pics, that would be my approach. Use a lift for sure & take it down safely in smallish sections. Always, Always, Always have a spotter on the ground to keep you out of the line with the lift! Never move the bucket till you have an eye directly on the power line, then look again! Might take a few hours to get it topped/limbed, but safety trumps everything when removing trees.
Guessing you don’t want to drop it over the hedge onto your neighbors property. Even if they’re on vacation? There’s the bucket rental thing. Best bet is try to get the power company to drop the line for free. Should be a little goodwill because of the right of way. Do they charge for a line drop? I imagine they must. May be free if your replacing the line due to age but for tree removal? Doubt it. I’ll agree with the others who have seen it. They won’t pay to take that tree down. It’s a judgement call from the line inspectors but the tree must be over the lines usually. The more people being fed from those lines is also in the calculation. Not looking good for you. Doesn’t hurt to ask though. Every utility is different. What happens here may not happen there and vice versa. Good luck.
Yes. I think you could get away with using a lift this way. You could probably limb it then drop the top out then limb the rest and drop the trunk. Minimal ground damage Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
I recently took a large dead ash tree down at a little sandpit lake that was overhanging and leaning over a road and towards a house. I used a trailerable lift and started limboing it on the way up and then took it down from the top down. “Chunked it down” I believe is the term. As was said above, a good ground guy/spotter is needed (I didn’t but should’ve and it made me way nervous not having someone watching). I only had one limb make any contact with the lift and it just landed over an outrigger so no harm done. There’s a thread with some pictures. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Yeah that sounds like the best way. If I did it this way, there may not even be a need to have the service line dropped. Seriously. I'll get better and more pics tomorrow, unless it's raining/ snowing too much. I think the power co owes me for the easement. At the time I agreed to it, the ash trees appeared healthy. Otherwise I would've had that in writing. The power company is really dragging their feet on this Project. According to our power co person that I signed the legal paper work, the only service line above the ground on my property( yellow lines closest to house), would and should be the line that guess front the poker between my shed and my house. That was 2 years ago. Edit, we didn't feed them that couple SQ feet for the transformer, we have them access to it.
Im Joe. Joe let it go. Be like Joe. Let it go. Hahahahaha I had no idea what to make of that myself. A joke? Ok good choice huskihl
They dont charge here but if you go over hours, like i said earlier they charge you the OT. Its in there best interest to lower it, they own the service line rt up to the house.
Looks doable...but cant see everything for angles and distances.... I had power line to deal with too this weekend... That why we rented a lift to delimb and get them on the ground safely. The power lines were probably 20-25 yards away from the outside of two of the trees. Looks like you'd probably have to move the lift several times to get proper angles. Ground man or two make the work in a bucket much easier... especially trying to manuever the bucket for the first time. They do have turtle speed, then two more, and the rabbit speed for movement. Its nice to have access to 110v to keep the battery charged on the lift too... Short bar saws are nice in the bucket...
Buy Pig Buy Beer Choose a date Go to Bulletin Board Section Post Thread - Fall GTG Wisconsin on said date Let the kids that know how to do this take down tree Tree down cut split and stacked Serve Pig and Beer... You are welcome Horkn !!! But seriously stay within your limitations...If you are leery of doing it yourself, hire a pro!!
In all seriousness, just reading your posts Horkn, I'd definitely say you will be better off letting someone else do that job. You just do not seem to be the least comfortable with it and that raised a huge red flag.
