Coffee anyone ?

[CntryBoy777]

We have 50-60' oak trees here @Bunnylady and there are times that broken limbs get hung on other branches and limbs 30'+ in the air....it sure doesn't make ya feel very safe out there when the wind picks up cause ya never know when they'll turn loose....I've pulled ends of fallen ones out of the ground 3-4' deep before and I always say that it was a good thing us or any of the animals weren't under that when it fell....
I looked around for ya today @Sourland and got this for ya...
....the azaleas are blooming here....

 

[Bunnylady]

This one's a pine.

 

[CntryBoy777]

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This one's a pine.

Well, from the looks of the ground there won't be too much problem of it falling down on someone....it does look like a jungle..........ya know...it looks like ya could use some goats to help clean some of that up for ya, but it would be a real task of fencing it off, also.....

 

[Bunnylady]

oh, good grief!!!!

yeah... I would keep whacking away at them until they were on the ground...

Either that or every time the wind blew I would have a fit.

The tricky part of that is the scale of the thing. If you look at the picture I posted, in the lower right you can see a (pretty much vertical) black line. That's a lamp post, and it's 11 feet tall (the post is vertical, I just wasn't holding my phone quite straight). The dead tree is at least 50 feet tall, with a base that's probably 2' in diameter and as stated, it's a brushy, viney mess (they call it pocosin). If anything odd happened while trying to cut that down, getting out of the way would not be a given. Sometimes you quit while you're ahead.

 

[Baymule]

We had a tree hung up like that one time. I bought a 50' nylon rope. We tied one end around the tree trunk and tied the other end to the truck trailer hitch. We pulled the tree down, safely, 50' plus away from the tree. It stretched that rope out, but it didn't snap. Had to cut the rope off the tree and trailer hitch. I still have a piece of that rope, use it all the time.

 

[Alaskan]

We had a tree hung up like that one time. I bought a 50' nylon rope. We tied one end around the tree trunk and tied the other end to the truck trailer hitch. We pulled the tree down, safely, 50' plus away from the tree. It stretched that rope out, but it didn't snap. Had to cut the rope off the tree and trailer hitch. I still have a piece of that rope, use it all the time.

that sounds like a good way to do it.

 

[Bunnylady]

We tried to do that with the tractor, but it didn't work.

 

[Alaskan]

We tried to do that with the tractor, but it didn't work.

bad baby tractor?

or no traction?

 

[Bunnylady]

bad baby tractor?

or no traction?

Both, plus it was impossible to get a straight line of pull or get the rope high enough on the trunk to really get some leverage on it.

 

[Baymule]

We tied the rope around the bottom of the trunk, close to the ground. It took some pulling. Sometimes they just wont move because the tree is so big and heavy, just be safe.