[AT] Charlie Hill,

[Thomas O Mehrkam]

Be real careful with that pine tree.

I suspect it is real tall.  It is a job for the experts.  What will it 
cost if you botch it and it falls on the house?

That being said I used a 8000 lb truck mounted winch to take down a huge 
Red Oak Tree that broke off about 20 ft up.  Fell across a trailer and 
caught in the fork of another tree.

We built a support out of two telephone poles tied together with log 
chain.  Got on the trailer and blocked the limbs that were over the 
trailer.  Then we hooked the winch to what was left

Pulled and the truck started sliding so we used a log chain to secure 
the truck to another tree.  Pulled until the hole thing toppled over 
away from the trailer.  That left the bottom portion that was easy to
direct with wedges to fall in the desired direction.

This was a house trailer on our weekend home not the main house.

On 10/4/2015 10:56 PM, Dennis Johnson wrote:
> 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
>
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
>> 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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