Two dead cherry trees, with one leaning into the other. Both are dead but the main body of both are still good. They are on a pretty good down hill. Your thoughts on how to safely put 'em down.
Hard to tell from pictures, but what I'm seeing, I'd try to huck a rope up over the double, set up a pulley on the tree on passed them (away from where you're standing) and pull it from back up by where you're taking the picture. Then I'd have a vehicle, or winch, or something pulling it and I'd stand above them on the hill and fell it towards the pulley tree enough to get it away from the tree it's leaning toward. Then do the same with the single, unless it can come back this way around the tree it is leaning towards. Pictures are always hard to judge things by, but that's close to what I'd try, judging by the pictures.
I’d want to get a rope around both stems as high as I could, notch it 45deg from lean on the away side from single stem, hook to machine, back cut leaving a healthy 2” hinge, pull over with machine lined up with your notch. This assumes you have a rope long enough to be a safe distance from fall, know how to tie a running bowline and can get a machine in that location.
And the most productive. When I fell you always tried staying in the lay, but with something like that, it is a no brainer. Safer too.
I don't give tree felling advice on the internet, but if I did, it would be tannerite and a .308 on the supporting tree. Whatever you do, first think about how many men are in the ground from trying to cut the leg out of a snag. It's a lot. I know a few.
Well I don't know anymore. I've got the easy stuff owning a construction business now. They probably have a tesla like name for making the skidder like you at the end of the day.
Curious here. How did you log the trees or at least remove the dangerous stuff with out cutting them down? We had no choice, and it was out job. But I know what you mean about how may are in the ground now. Someone has to get the work done though.
Hard to tell from just that one picture and how hung up that tree on the left is on the down hill side tree (the one on the right) but if it really is hung up well enough (and hopefully it is) I would start by cutting a good wide notch on the hung-up tree to the down hill side, then do my back cut. The tree won’t fall. The trunk will just hop down onto the ground and remain hung up. Then hook a long rope or tow strap to the base just above where you just cut. Hook the other end to your tow hitch, bumper, or winch. Then pull the base out and away toward the uphill side (to the left in your pic). It will then be flat on the ground and you can proceed normally with the remaining tree. Easy schmeasy.
Eventually. But first you have to get the twin that is hung up out of the way. The four pictures I showed are all relating to the twin trunk tree on the left. Once that gets pulled down and is on the ground you can attack the single trunk tree that was holding it up to its right.
