That is some funny S-- I just played that song the other day for a customer who never heard of it he never heard of monty python !!! guess I am getting old JB
That's a bummer , Brad will probably come drop it for you and probably won't charge much. It's the travel time that will add up LOL
That’s true brother if he was close enough I’d drop it for a steak dinner, but sadly there’s a big pond between us.
I’d be hesitant of pulling that one 180 degrees and personally would never attempt a 90 degree pull. Too much can go wrong. If it were me, I’d rent a lift or pay the man. Not what you want to hear I know but I prefer to keep trees off of buildings.
Lots of good advice from knowledgeable folks about taking it down. I will throw my $.02 in, I am just an idiot with a chainsaw & I didn’t stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night either. As you have said that you will eventually take that qounset down. I would rope it, pulling @ about 115*away from the back off your qounset. If the top does catch the side of your qounset, it’s not flat so you will get the benefit of the “roll/skid” on an arc instead of the thud of hitting a flat roof. I have taken a couple of 12” diameter trees down along qounsets using this method. Unless your qounset is really weak & ready to crumble you “should” be in good shape as long as you keep the main mass off the top of your arc/qounset. After a closer look at the pictures, it appears that you have doors on the other end of your qounset so the method I suggested probably won’t work as it may catch your door rails.
She’s pretty much on borrowed time. It’s a 30’X60’ structure This is the north end of the spot you circled. The walls at where they attach to the concrete. Looking at the walls, the north door threshold is 9” lower than the south door. That is an actual 1/8” per foot slope over 60’. I should be able to “remodel” it on the existing concrete.
I can see buZZsaw BRAD drooling over the QH. Dreaming about having the land for it, with stacks and stacks of wood under it.
You know me all too well Mike as that was my first thought when I saw the structure. What is it used for FarmerJ?
Too risky. Take it apart from the top...which will also be tricky because you cannot do a straight drop with limbs. You may need to do some tie offs to keep from sending a piece through the roof. The monkeys would rig a line to lower them I think. They got some fancy rope skills.
Just spitballin here...how about rigging the rope as high as possible, then pull straight out just enough to take out slack, then cut it to fall to one end of the building...as the tree falls the rope would keep it from going toward the building, and even progressively pull it further away as it falls...
Get a Maasdam kit. Use a throw line to get it as high as possible. Between the kit, a throw line and a good carabiner it’ll be about $300. Pull directly away from the Quonset hut. If it gets hung up, block it down.
At about 6:20 Terry talks about how to continue to block down a hung up tree that is approaching vertical by having it fall away from the lean. I would recommend tying your rope on the bottom piece as opposed to the top piece. If it’s tied to the top piece, your rope could end up buried in the ground.
I used the vertical ladder today to get pictures of where it would drop to go straight out from the building.
If you have a strong rope, a ladder and can pull with a decent truck, that should be all you need. I hate having a single point of failure though. So a second rope in the tree tied off to another anchor point would be preferred. Make sure you do a test pull before sinking a saw into the tree. And don’t do either cut with too much tension. If you have too much tension for your back cut, you could cause the tree to barber chair and then you have a bunch more problems.
