deepNdirt
Veteran Member
If this was a poplar, the bottom sections if not rotted out weighed closer to 275Lbs per foot in length if indeed the tree had a 3 ft diameter. You most of noticed how that 100 Lbs seemed much heavier.
it could had weigh more, it was 2 of us picking up the chunks and kind flinging them away from the house, the tree was dead for sure, and for sure 3 feet thick single stock trunk, remember it was 30 ft from the house so the first 30 ft up on the tree did not hit the house, I remember it so well
this dude owned a skid loader ( bob cat ) that we hooked to the rest of the tree to pull the larger trunk out of the house,..... the real kicker about this story is he ask me didn't he cut the pie out on the correct side? Ha! :ashamed: seem to me was the wrong time to be asking someone if he wasn't sure of himself , but he did cut the pie out away from the house, his mistake was he just cut too straight into the trunk, he should had started up 12" and cut down into the pie , heck when I cut a tree I always tie it off to either my tractor or another tree pulling it with a little tension away from any structures, I think he had not made any kind of Game plan, I think he got up that morning listen to the weather forecast and decide to cut the tree down,
we had the storm that was expected that night and lucky him the insurance company paid for the damage thinking it was results in storm damage to the house,
I also have a 80ft. pop about the same distance from my house it has 3 trunks out of the ground, when we built our house this was a beautiful tree, but some few years later lighting struck it,2 times in fact, ripping back the bark in all 3 trunks all the way to the ground, killed one of the trunks, and the other 2 are not healthy, I've been wanting to HAVE this tree cut down, I've had a quote of 500 bucks just to have it laid down and them walk away leaving me the tree to cut up and remove, I guess with this kind of cost is why my neighbor decided to cut it down him self,
I will not attempt this after seeing what destruction a tree that size can do, although I have been thinking about renting a boom lift & bucket or something of that nature and cut the top sectioning it down,
but still undecided what to do?
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