Doing some tree trimming

   / Doing some tree trimming #61  
I just had that experience yesterday (risky situation). Last summer a storm twisted a long horizontal hanging Osage Orange limb. The main trunk limb was about 8 inch diameter x 15 feet. It was hung up in other hedge limbs. I whittled the bushy ends off and tried to drop the main trunk. Well it was still hung up. Geeze, I didn't want to get that close to clear the hang ups. Quite carefully, it got a chain on the trunk and tugged on it till it fell away from me. I was through for the day then.

Cheers,
Mike
 
   / Doing some tree trimming #62  
I went old school handraulic from Gardening tools, secateurs, garden cleaning tools | CutAbove Tools. They were at the local Tassie field day (Agfest).

They had a high quality (made in Taiwan) set of 5M expandable pole, ratchet pruner and HD saw for around A$170. The pole doesn't wobble and the saw, especially, cuts through my blackwood limbs like the proverbial hot knife through butter (on the down stroke).

Money well invested, in my humble opinion.

Thanks, having a look and at local stockists.
Our problem trees are Cypress and two elms that the power lines run through although we are running underground power soon so they won't be a problem for long.
SWMBO loves her gardening so could be a nice Xmas present (even though we now know there is a about a 1 metre tiger living in the bed next to the front door, was sitting there looking at us when we got home Wednesday and wouldn't move).
 
   / Doing some tree trimming #63  
I paid about $200 for the chinese rubbish, the Stihl is about $1500, I thought I saved $1300 but I wasted $200 and it is now a paperweight and as an added bonus you can't get spare parts for them as I found out when I managed to break the chainguard.
Want to buy a cheap polesaw?
Guaranteed to be useless, there, an honest salesman!

I got a Jameson pole saw set up from Wesspur - 3 6' fiberglass tubes (B-LITE) with a wicked sharp saw. The entire setup is perhaps 10-15 pounds.

There's definitely a technique to using these - as you noted there's a lot of flex in the setup - but I can cut a 6" limb that's 20' above ground in no time (green wood is very quick; old dry oak can take some time and give your shoulders a work-out).

I added another 6' section and got a lopper that I can swap the saw head out on. I have to say, 24' of pole is really tough to steer and I'd definitely rather not use 4 pole sections, but it keeps me out of the trees and lets me get what I need to cut out.

The poles are really easy to put together or take apart; when I move to another tree I often start with one section ( + saw head), do a few branches up to about 10-11' high, then add a section and do the next zone, and then one more section. Very rarely do I do all 4 sections, but 3 is quite manageable.
 
   / Doing some tree trimming #64  
I just had that experience yesterday (risky situation). Last summer a storm twisted a long horizontal hanging Osage Orange limb. The main trunk limb was about 8 inch diameter x 15 feet. It was hung up in other hedge limbs. I whittled the bushy ends off and tried to drop the main trunk. Well it was still hung up. Geeze, I didn't want to get that close to clear the hang ups. Quite carefully, it got a chain on the trunk and tugged on it till it fell away from me. I was through for the day then.

Cheers,
Mike

Somebody needs a grapple.
 
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