How Would You Fell It?

Have to take down this dead ash spar that's in my way where i'm working. How'd you go about it FHC?
They did a nice job cutting this joist around it. I wouldve just moved it a couple inches. Ive worked around trees while roofing, but first time on a deck!

 

ALAP it and pretend it's part of the deck?

 

I'd leave it be and use it to rest my beer on.

 

First you gotta spit a couple times. Then hold yer mouth just right. March right in there and attack that sucker. Take no prisoners, wedge as needed, probably won’t need a jack.

Don’t forget to stag off your britches with spenders out so you look like a reel logger too. Above all video, we need a video how with proper technique.



Owl

 

I was thinking similarly....secure it to the joist, trim it down, put a table on it for serving drinks.....

But if it has to go, and you're not replacing the decking, small chainsaw, bar pointed down to the middle of the stump, creating a v shaped bowl. After that, one of those reciprocating saws to plunge-cut the rest of the stump below the deck..

 

I’d make it a table base. Put a couple bar stools around it…

 

Yup, frame around it and use it for a table or something.
If it has to go, then I'd use a couple lbs. of Tannerite

 

I’d crawl under the deck and remove it below the joists

 

I'd use a chainsaw.

 

Im demoing entire deck. Ill post more pics later.

 

I was waiting for that response. You didnt disappoint Mike!

 

Need a sky hook for that job, no doubt.

 

then swedish candle it!

done!

 

mini X time. Take it out as a stump.



just call 811 first

 

I'd remove deck first, then chain it and try to pull the stump out w/ truck or something heavier. The higher the stump the more leverage for success.

 

Sizwheel looks to be the only viable option.

 

Where would you like this unloaded at.?

i’ll be loading it tomorrow morning.

it might be on the small side though.

 

Pics from this morning when i started. He said i could cut it down. Not sure of future deck plans but living space being extended out about 8' even with where the lower deck was attached.

 

We need that to grind the stumps on that 3 acre Plantation job we did. Bring it to GA

 

Well, to cut it down, as MikeInMa said, ise a chain saw, but your CAD will kick in, and you'll have to get a MS661 or MS881 with at least a 50" bar, might still have to double cut it to reach across...