Wire Rope or Cable, whatever you wish to call it

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Everyone pay close attention:

Prokop is a very smart man.

Anybody not afraid of a hanging tree should stay in the house.

 

[dmccarty]

Except that Prokop cut the SUPPORTING tree. Which means he was standing under the tree that was hanging....

I have a couple of hanging trees. I can only think of a couple of ways to do it. I am scared to do it so they continue to hang since they are out of the way. I have been hoping Momma Nature would take them down but so far she has not had the time. She did bring down a big sweat gum that was bent over last week. I was going to cut that gum tree down this fall or winter but Momma did it for me. I wish she would take down the hangers. I think I'm going to girdle one of them, cut some wedges out top and bottom to see if Momma can take the tree down with a little help.

Short of a crane, its do it this way, use heavy equipment to push/pull, or use a cable/strap/winch to pull the tree as its cut. None of those approches sound real fun... But if momma fail then its cable, cut, and pull with a winch.

Later,
Dan

 

[Iowachild]

I'm not a professional treeman, but I thought the way you cut the tree determined where it fell?

I have hired pros for the really tough tree removal jobs. They always climbed the tree and dropped it piece by piece.

 

[Defective]

Except that Prokop cut the SUPPORTING tree. Which means he was standing under the tree that was hanging....

Hhhmmm...

I wasn't paying attention...

Holy Cow!!!

OK. Prokop, You're smart enough to be scared, but PLEASE take a course before you cut too many more trees.

 

[JimR]

A hanging tree can kill you. I have a ton of them on my 36 acre woodlot. I should say I had a ton of them. Most of them got knocked down last week by my tractor. I was able to push almost everyone of them down sideways. You really need to be careful if they are dead. The tops snap off and pop back at you.

 

[tommu56]

When I was in fire co rescue school we were tough to put a few fire coats on cable to "slow it down" if it broke but we allways stayed out of line of cable.

on pulling hangers down some times a pivey at the base pulles around works wonders spinning away the support tree. the other way i have n tangled is wrap a chain around leaner 5 or 10 times and pull gently with tractor to spin trunk again away from the one its is stuck in

tom

 

[Onthesauk]

Took one down yesterday. Hard to do in a suburban setting but on acreage, safest way is to drop another tree into it. I had a leaner toward one that snapped off in the wind a few weeks ago and got hung up 30 - 40 feet up. Both went down clean.

 

[czechsonofagun]

Except that Prokop cut the SUPPORTING tree. Which means he was standing under the tree that was hanging....

I have a couple of hanging trees. I can only think of a couple of ways to do it. I am scared to do it so they continue to hang since they are out of the way. I have been hoping Momma Nature would take them down but so far she has not had the time. She did bring down a big sweat gum that was bent over last week. I was going to cut that gum tree down this fall or winter but Momma did it for me. I wish she would take down the hangers. I think I'm going to girdle one of them, cut some wedges out top and bottom to see if Momma can take the tree down with a little help.

Short of a crane, its do it this way, use heavy equipment to push/pull, or use a cable/strap/winch to pull the tree as its cut. None of those approches sound real fun... But if momma fail then its cable, cut, and pull with a winch.

Later,
Dan

I dont pretend to be smart - ask my boss or my wife


But there was no other way, cutting down the top tree would hang it even more IMHO - and cutting chunks of it when it is hanging could eventually let it fell on the other side - and on the barn.

But I was out of the harms way, cutting frrom the side and only the blade was under the tree; from all my stupid actions I ever did I would scale this as 85% safe

I think the stupid way would be to try to get down just the hanging tree by climbing up and cutting of some branches - which is waht my friend suggested and I refused.

 

[JimR]

Sometimes you can use your bucket and a chain to lift the hanger off the ground and pull it back so it will fall. Just make sure that you have a lot of weight on the rear end to hold you down.