[AT] Charlie Hill,

[Dennis Johnson]

Charlie,

I have taken down some reasonably large oak trees, basically with a 3 ton come along. Get a ladder and hook on the tree up reasonably high - 12 foot or higher.  You need some other tree or fixed object to tie too. After you have a little tension on the tree, dig down and cut the roots around the base of the tree. Then pull, pull, pull. It is work, but can take down a tree.

Good luck

Dennis


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> On Oct 4, 2015, at 8:06 PM, charlie hill <charliehill at embarqmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I have a huge pine tree in front of my house.  It's very healthy but for 
> some
> reason it has been progressively leaning toward the house for several years
> now.  The way it is situated it can not be safely cut and thrown.  It will 
> have
> to come down in blocks from the top down.  I figure it will cost a couple of
> grand minimum to get it down.  It's starting to worry me. If it gives loose
> and falls all at once it will cut the house in half.    I think there is 
> just a
> slim chance that it can be felled in one piece but I'll need something like 
> a
> winch truck or a large excavator to makes sure if falls the right way.
> Time will tell.  If it fell right now, given where I am sitting in the 
> house,
> you wouldn't likely hear from me any time soon if at all.  LOL.
> I don't think it will go all at once unless we get a very bad hurricane.
> 
> Charlie
> 
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: David Bruce
> Sent: Sunday, October 04, 2015 3:56 PM
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
> Subject: Re: [AT] Charlie Hill,
> 
> Maybe just a bit less on the other side of the river Spencer but much
> the same. One thing happening here is with the steady wind and the
> saturated ground from the last couple weeks events some trees are
> falling. Nothing on me or mine other than a few medium to small limbs.
> However my neighbor down on the creek says he has quite a few on the
> ground.
> 
> David
> NW NC
> 
>> On 10/4/2015 8:54 AM, ATIS wrote:
>> We only got 2.4" in this most recent event, but we have had rain a bunch 
>> of consecutive  days, and that has totaled nearly 6" and contributed to 
>> the flooding. I overheard the local weather guy say that yesterday broke a 
>> record of 10 consecutive days  of rain in Greensboro nc - about 30 miles 
>> east of here.  We had about 6/100 this morning so that makes 11 days.
>> 
>> 48 degrees yesterday morning and high winds so it was cold rain as well.
>> 
>> www.rdfarms.com/weather
>> 
>> Spencer Yost
> 
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