[AT] Charlie Hill,

Mon Oct 5 06:55:36 PDT 2015

Thanks Thomas,

Between my years growing up on a farm and working for a logging company
and then 20 plus years in heavy construction,  I know how to handle it.  I 
just
don't have the equipment to do it.  That's why it's still standing.   I have 
known
some old guys that used to fell trees for a living that could have thrown it 
in a
safe direction but all of logging around here is mechanized now and those 
old
skills have gone by the wayside.  I don't know anyone now I would trust to 
do it.
If it was in an open area and there was maybe something like an old shed in 
the
way I'd probably try it myself but the risk is too great with it sitting 
directly in front
of the house and leaning toward the house.

Don't worry,  I'll be careful when I decide it's time to get it down.  I'll 
probably get someone
to climb it and cut it down in blocks.   Where it is sitting I'd have to 
reach across the top of the house
with a crane to lift it and it would probably take at least a 50 ton crane 
to do that and I'm not sure
that would be enough.  The best solution would be to catch a logger working 
in the area with
a feller buncher on a big excavator.  I missed my chance on that a few 
months ago.  They cut a tract
less than half a mile from me but got gone before I had a chance to talk to 
the logger about it.

Charlie

-----Original Message----- 
From: Thomas O Mehrkam
Sent: Monday, October 05, 2015 7:47 AM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] Charlie Hill,

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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