On Tue, 12 Feb 2019 15:50:33 +1100, "Rod Speed"
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On Mon, 11 Feb 2019 21:06:37 -0600, philo wrote:

On 2/9/19 11:48 AM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
I was going to hire the guys in the first video, but he is expensive. I
can save 50 bucks if I get one of the guys in the second one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TN0bMU3hOzY

https://www.youtube.com/embed/0BLsYR...toplay=1&rel=0

Stole this from another group.




I've done some dumb things in my life but on the two times I've needed a
tree trimmed or removed...hired a pro.


I am certainly not climbing up in a tree or standing on a ladder with
a chain saw but I do feel pretty good on an articulated lift so I can
be above the limb I am cutting and it falls away from the machine.

Thats fine with limbs, but its not so easy with the main
vertical trunk where you have to be where the cut is made
and have a much heavier chunk of wood falling away
even if you do cut it in small chunks like you say next.


Once you get down to a single vertical trunk, predicting and planning
the fall is much easier. All of the trees in my yard don't grow that
way anyhow. There isn't really a single trunk that goes up very far.
Even that nasty fucus only had about 20' of trunk and the other 40'
was branches. Live oaks start branching off 10' off the ground.