Hung Up !

[Steve Medlock]

Any advice on how to deal with this one please?

I have a plan but would be interested to hear what others think.

Steve.

[Woodsmith]

I have two like that to deal with, would also be interested. Might phone a friend!

[Dexter's Shed]

looks a good one, now Im not a tree surgeon, Im also not trained to use a chainsaw, all my training has come via you tube, and apart from a small 14" husky, I also use a 20" chinese imported widow maker chainsaw, so don't listen to any advice from me......

but, if it were mine, I'd be doing this...

you'll see, after cutting this dead standing oak, it stood upright, snagged in the next tree

http://youtu.be/3k3l8umnv2c

so we first tried winching, we pulled the bottom out, but it wouldn't budge
there was only one little bitty branch from the oak that was snagged in the next tree, so being a pest controller, my next port of call was to try firing 50 carts from the shotgun at it
yeah like that'll work.....

so, we then called on a friend, who doe's happen to be a tree surgeon, as by this time the trunk was at a nasty angle, he showed us how it should be done

http://youtu.be/prB5PA1VqBM

and then gave me a days training on using the chainsaw ( and remarked how good my widow maker was)

so I went on to remove this tree, no worries,
I tend to cut higher than people would normally, so I can use the bit left to make a seat, and also plug with mushroom spores

http://youtu.be/uRjN3hvR7Sw

[oldclaypaws]

I had a dead tall oak about 90 ft high and 30" at the base came half way down three weeks ago and leant at 45 degrees on a neighbouring side branch of another very nice healthy oak. It must have weighed 4 or 5 tons and was very dangerous.

All you need to do apparently is wait for an even stronger storm to blow it off !! It dropped last week, which was a relief. Took the other oaks side branch with it, thats 2 feet across and 40 feet long.

Your conifer doesn't look too heavy so I'd have thought if you cut through the base you could drag it off by pulling it along the track with a 4 x 4 or winching it. Take it easy.

[SimonFisher]

... so, we then called on a friend, who doe's happen to be a tree surgeon, as by this time the trunk was at a nasty angle, he showed us how it should be done

http://youtu.be/prB5PA1VqBM

But didn't tell you not to walk under the bit still hung-up (0:43)

[Dexter's Shed]

... so, we then called on a friend, who doe's happen to be a tree surgeon, as by this time the trunk was at a nasty angle, he showed us how it should be done

http://youtu.be/prB5PA1VqBM

But didn't tell you not to walk under the bit still hung-up (0:43)

wouldn't have listened if he did, health and safety are too over the top nowdays, we rely on common sense, the top of that oak was well and truly hung up, apart from the chainsaw, the only other way it was coming down would have been an act of god,

[Steve Medlock]

Did he cut that over shoulder height?

My thoughts with my tree were to cut a 'sloping down' wedge out of the front so that the back cut would then have the tree sliding forwards off the stool. I was then going to see if I could roll it away from me with the felling lever so that it fell beside the tree that its hung up in. My concern was trapping the saw in the back cut though as you can't exactly leave a hinge.

Steve.

[Dexter's Shed]

yup, he did finish off doing a cut just over head height, don't ask me how,lol, but he knew what he was doing, although he said it was not the ideal cut, it really was so well hung up that it was the only way

[Steve Medlock]

OK I have it now:

http://www.woodlands.co.uk/tv/2009/06/f ... g-up-tree/

I'll let you know how I get on....

Steve.

[Dexter's Shed]

Did he cut that over shoulder height?

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I found the second bit of video, which shows how well hung up this was, and therefore why it was safe to walk under

http://youtu.be/5WcFItsN_JU