Now that trees are beginning to fall, Andy decided this one should be taken out before it fell on the fence and crushed it.
So he had the contractor’s crew come up to deal with it. They first took down the fence.
Then they cut down the tree.
And they cut the tree into manageable pieces so they could toss them out of the fenced-in area before putting the fence back.
All in all a productive day.
October 28, 2014
Poor tree! Euthanasia. It did not have a chance. 🙁
It wasn’t euthanasia. It burned up with all but two of our trees on June 26, 2011. You’re right. They didn’t have a chance — they were right in the line of the fire. 🙁
Good plan to take down that dead tree. It’s hard to predict when they’ll fall. A couple of years ago, one that I was planning to take down partially fell onto the highway in front of our house.
We have several live trees close to the house that we need to have taken down.
Yep. When it’s clear they’ll be coming down sooner or later, it’s best to be proactive.
“All in all a productive day.” ….a lucrative day for the contractor’s crew who drove maybe 50 or 60 miles to get there.
That’s not the way you take down a tree. That tree was leaning down-mountain from the fence. No need to take down the fence. Cut a notch on the downhill side of tree & when it is cut it will fall downhill. Toss the cut pieces OVER the fence. The contractor’s crew should stick to building houses.
LOLOLOL!!!
“If you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all.” I can’t help myself & adjust my comments. Should I leave them off?
No. Please keep commenting. But in this case you’re wrong. Trust Andy when he says no matter which way the tree fell it would have clobbered the fence. It was just too tall.
In this case Tom (& our Jones neighbor) climbed to the top, cut off a part, came down some to cut off next piece, etc.
P.S. I saw the neighbor cutting his tree, from the top down, the same way as Tom did.
How tall were the trees?
Tom said about 100 ft. tall. He used a 20 inch chain saw. Mr. Jones was small & scrambled up the tall tree like a monkey. He actually looked like a monkey; not my type.
They were considering doing that but (Andys words) “cooler heads prevailed. You don’t climb up a dead tree to cut it down.” He didn’t want anyone to get hurt.
There were a lot of “widowmakers” in the tree — branches that were so loose they could fall and kill someone if the tree were jarred. They’re a major cause of chainsaw fatalities.
These trees were live. Thinning crowded area. Branches were used for climbing.
isn’t perspective interesting? it didn’t look that big in the first picture.
and then with the guy standing on the trunk… wow.
fire is so devastating. i think maybe it’s the worst of all natural disasters.
(well. unless it’s caused by an evil arsonist).
the marine tells me why fire is necessary in nature… but still… it hurts to look at all those beautiful skeletons of dead trees.
The reason our fire was so devastating was because for years the policy was fire suppression. The forest was overgrown, and the fuel load was so high the fire was intensely hot. It destroyed all the trees in its immediate path and cooked the soil. That’s why we’re having so much trouble with flash flooding and roads washing out.
Shame the tree died in such a bad way, especially as it had been reaching above the rest before it was “cut down in its prime” via the forest fire
There were two of them, and I loved them. 🙁
poor trees… I am glad they put the fence back!