Having a few trees dropped today. (pics)

[Piston]

I met my match with these 3 pines in my yard. There are power lines on 3 of the 4 sides and a house on the other. I figured I'd better be smart and call in the pros before I get stupid and have one of those "hold my beer, watch this" moments.

Within the hour the tree guys should be here with their 65' bucket truck and I'll try taking pics and posting with my cell phone an the TBN app, hope this works.

Here are the 3 trees that will be taken down. I doubt you can see the wires but right in front they are about 18' away, behind they are about 9' away, to the left they are 25'-30' away from the main power lines and transformer along the road. To the right is a fence and home about 15' and 40' respectively.

 

[Ductape]

I had a huge Sugar Maple (nearly 4' diameter) taken down by a tree service a couple years ago. I sought a few bids by different services (all legitimate services with insurance) and made it clear all they were doing was getting it on the ground. I did all clean-up, had the stump ground by someone else, and made firewood out of the tree for my own use. Ended up having it done by a two man crew using a bucket truck, took them about five hours. I paid about $400, and thought that was cheap. Frankly, the owner didn't make much profit at the end of the day, and I was happy I got it done well within my budget.

P.S. I bought them pizza of their choice for lunch, along with whatever they wanted to drink.

 

[creekbend]

I think you made a wise decision. Better to be safe than sorry. Best wishes.

 

[Piston]

Well, sounds like it won't be within the hour. Supposedly they're truck is broke down and they're not sure if they'll make it today or not.

I understand equipment breaks but it's still slightly aggravating!

 

[RxRatedZ71]

Man, I was all excited too. Love watching other peoples projects unfold. Its almost as much fun as spending other people's money!

 

[DarkBlack]

Around here the power company will have someone drop trees that close to their lines for free.

 

[Treemonkey1000]

A good climber can have those down in a couple of hours and probably cut up.. Get a good camera out there and take some pictures when they show up. A bucket truck should go even quicker

 

[rekees4300]

I figured I'd better be smart and call in the pros before I get stupid and have one of those "hold my beer, watch this" moments.

Big trees, power lines, and a home are a bad combo. You made a prudent choice! :thumbsup:

 

[Piston]

It's been close to a year since I posted this thread. The guys never ended up showing up, and then I had to go away for a while with work and sort of dropped the ball on having these trees down. I contacted the same people (as well as 2 others for quotes) and after hearing back from them they agreed to drop the trees (again) for the same price.

We settled on just having them cut the trees down and get them on the ground. I'll chip the limbs and hopefully saw up some timbers on the mill with whatever straight sections I can get out of them, as well as grind down the stumps.

We're aiming for the first week of August, hopefully this time they show up when they say they will. I think I'll use Ductape's idea and buy them pizza and drinks for lunch. :thumbsup:

 

[jemclimber]

Ended up having it done by a two man crew using a bucket truck, took them about five hours. I paid about $400, and thought that was cheap.

That's very cheap, unless they were just slow, 5 hours in the bucket with another guy roping should cost more than double, close to triple that price.

Show us the lumber you cut.

 

[Piston]

Show us the lumber you cut.

Ill be sure to! I have to say, I'm less than impressed with the communication with the company I'm dealing with. I've called numerous times and have emailed as well, and its like pulling teeth with these guys just to nail down a date and time!

I hope this isn't a repeat of what happened last year!

 

[Piston]

Finally here!

 

[Piston]

About 80% done limbing.

 

[MacLawn]

Glad you're getting that done! I'm always needing to cut trees down - next time, I'm buying pasture land! Not forest.

 

[Piston]

Wow! They just left. It's 8:50, those guys took a while to show up but they did some darn nice work. Ill get some really good lumber out of those trees. Ill post some better pics once I get them downloaded.

 

[FredH]

A few years ago , posted a thread about 1 lone lightning strike the entire day , hit a 70' + tall , over 100 year old pine that " WAS " 20' from our house . Called these guys that our neighbors had used . Two ( 2 ) older gentlemen showed up , One belted up and started up , taking limbs down as he went . Got to the top and started blocking as he came down . 3 hours , $300 and had 3 neat piles of limbs plus a Whole lot of rounds that I eventually got split . Still burning that pine every winter as we only use it for starter wood . Base of tree was 3' + in diameter , but these Men made it look like a simple walk in the park . House was only 20' west , Utility pole / main breaker was only 20' northeast , Shop about 40' north , so although I have fell bigger tree's , not in that close of an area .

Before that house , use to be a mobile home back in the early 2000's . To move it out and make room for new house , had to take down 2 similar pine's in front yard on opposite side of house that above pine was at . One had grown so much that it was maybe a foot from side of mobile and had actually buckled skirting at bottom of mobile . Those 2 , I did myself as I had gravity working in my favor also since they went downhill from house . Let's just say that it " Woke " the Neighborhood when those hit the ground . :thumbsup: It is nothing to hear a chainsaw at 7 or 8 in the morning around here , But when Several tons of tree come thumping down , it got people's attention .

It is better to pay a few coin and have everything still normal after tree's are down than to be to gungho and pay big $$$$ later .

Fred H.

 

[turnkey4099]

Very cheap indeed. I paid $850 for 3 man crew and bucket truck to remove just one medium size spruce.

Harry K

 

[crbr]

Thanks for the pictures

 

[Piston]

Here are some more pictures from that day. I got the entire mess cleaned up in about 5 hours, 2 hrs moving and sorting logs which I had them keep long, and 3 hrs chipping all the branches with my PTO chipper.

 

[Piston]

A couple more.