When I was a kid I liked to try & rock & push dead trees until they fell over...that is until one of them broke in many pieces overhead and came down all around me...I was lucky that time, only got hit by one of the smaller pieces...but it hurt pretty bad and I never did that again:)
My brother and a few friends also used to do this in our late teens. Sometimes with 3-4 of us surrounding a large dead stander and we'd get the rhythm going. It was a test of daring agility to scramble when it'd snap. The springyness in some of them would give the snaps an extremely unpredictable whiplash effect that sent them spearing extrafast downward. I still wear the scar of one on the side of my nose, 1/4 inch from blinding me 40 years later.
@@marcariotto1709 Wow a reminder of how lucky you were! I sometimes look back in aw of all of the narrow escapes I've had from the many sketchy/dumb things I did when I was young. My guardian angel must have a rather large hernia:)
@@rayclark9643 GA large hernia😂😂🤣 Absolutely! We were smart (or lucky) enough to mostly stay out of Darwin award territory, but boy, we sure did hang with all his sibs and cousins😂🤣😂
did that to big old long dead tree top broke of and landed next to me nothing happened but scared me straight but that just being kid's pushing over dead trees till the get to big
I used to put TV antennas up in trees. (You do remember big TV antennas?) Had a customer who wanted me to put one up in an alder that had no limbs left on it and was punky. He couldn't understand why I said no frigging way would I climb that. I tossed a rope up in the tree, backed off 100 ft , handed him the rope and said "Pull". Tree did exactly what that tree did except it broke off 6' up. The carpenter ants just poured out of the break.. His comment was" Well I guess we can't use that tree then". Sigh........ Darwin Award material? BTW August- If anyone wants you to put any type of antenna on a brick chimney,, or any other type, run away. The liability is horrible. I have seen 3-4 chimneys fall apart from the wind vibration of the antenna and go through the roof. One punched the roof then rolled down and crushed the fiberglass patio roof too. (Besides the chimney gasses and acids will eat up the aluminum antennas with corrosion. )
Amazing lesson for a layman like me. Y’all are like This Old House for tree work. Been a subscriber for a long while, always amazed at the cohesiveness MB crew.
i run a company here in PA and man let me tell you... those ash takedowns are nightmares. they break into a million pieces, and unless theres mushrooms visible on the wood you never really know how structurally sound they are. i just had a 36"DBH i was gonna climb and bomb tops out of... was too rotted at base for me to trust so i tied a come along and sent that bitch lol.
The last couple years have been the turning point here in MN. There are dead ash trees everywhere now. In general I'll climb most of the dead ash around here, but they are starting to get pretty ugly. I climbed a couple that must have been near the 'epicenter' that were long gone. One was spongy, the other was like a giant charcoal log. the chips sounded like coals from a fire. I'm sure it's about to get nasty as this plays out everywhere.
man when you are right, you are right. That was a heck of call. Crazy. PS; yes on the ash, I myself have cut hundreds of dead dry ash here in Virginia over the last 5 years, we're almost out of them thanks to the EAB. Very few left. And you are so right, they dry hard at first like concrete, but leave em standing too long and they fall apart. I hate standing under them when 'felling them especially if they have an arm over my head.
Same with dead standing elm (not much left here in Missouri now) or Cottonwood. I feel like our dead ash is solid for a while but most gets cut for firewood pretty quickly I guess.
Amen to that! Back when I was a noob climber I was rigging out a 4 or 5 inch top in a Sibo elm. Made my Humboldt, started my back cut when something stopped me (likely the good Lord). I looked up and I was still tied into it! 😳
My folks' place is littered with dead alders like that. I've been clearing them out over the past few months. wicked, unpredictable trees but it is convenient how they break into little bite sized chunks when they hit the ground. I even pulled one over on accident, just the weight of a winch line hanging from a limb took it right off what roots it had left.
I’ve been having good luck with shaking the top end of birches out of them before getting into them Also judging how long a poplar has been dead by how easily their dead mid stem branches snap off on my way up by sort of hammer fisting them off has been a good indicator of its brittleness. If they don’t snap off at all, it’s still got some good lignin/cellulose. Play safe y’all
I always thought you guys climb too many trees anyway... many of them we would just drop them. If no room, rent a man lift and drop it from that height.
Bad tree, I would never climb one of those. We have enough dead ash trees here. Lady out mushroom hunting had a ash tree fall and kill her a while back. We lost our archery range (70 years we rented it) last year. Owner didn't want any of his ash tree's killing someone. They where coming down every windy day.
climbed and removed loads of dead pines and larch trees, in fact a dead pine is the tallest tree ive ever removed at 110 feet (im in the UK so im sure ppl in the US think thats puny) removed a 60 foot dying lombardy poplar once tho and that was terrifying, so brittle and weak, wobbled so much but that was probably because the trunk was hollow at the base, havent been in the industry all that long tho so im sure ill find scarier trees
East coast, southern yellow, 3-needle pine (I folded one like a giant "Jacob's Ladder" kids' toy, using only a throwline, barely tugged). Also, Sweet Gum after drought stress.
Reminds me of our banksia trees we got here in Aus. I'm on the east coast NSW. Even when they're green they have a tendency to just snap at random. The dead ones just turn to dust. What's more annoying though is the wood is super heavy and it gets really heavy cone like berries.
Learn from your mistakes is what was drummed into me, you got lucky this time don’t try it again and sometimes accompanied with a slap around my ears to emphasise the point 😊
You can usually get a good idea of age/ integrity based on how much of the leaves and small twigs are left on the tree. Also the peeling bark depending on species. I do a lot of large dead Douglas fir removals and they are pretty solid for a good while.
Im not a fan of hickory when they die. I know a few people who have got hurt and one company by me his climber who passed away when he fell. They scare the crap out of me.
Yes, I was removing a hickory for a client and one section of it was dead. Don't work on hickories very often. that was the first day I got access to a bucket. truck- instead of having to climb out and rig it, I was able to snap cut- but barely had to, it was like cutting paper mache
Whirly bird knots only work if you watch them.. soon as you look away or question them, they start to fail.. but with enough whirlys on the bird you can recover.. 🤦♂️ Use a Clove or two instead 😜
@@AugustHunicke with as dry, and phunky as the inside of the broken parts looked- Mind you I've never handled Alder before. I had to ask. Thanks for bringing us on your journey and sharing this, August. Stay safe out there 🙏🤘
Wind can and does blow harder than his pull on the throw line.. It was just a matter of time and that tree could have hurt someone.. Y’all are saving lives! ❤
WOW. Literally felling a tree by 4 or 5 yanks on a string/thin rope. Scary stuff - and fascinating 👍👍👍. I cut down two limbs of a tree today, using a technique I have seen you guys use; cutting so slow, that it bends down slowly. They were low hanging over a shed with a fragile roof, and I could not stear them free of it. The roof could hold up the weight of the limbs, but would have broken, if they had fallen freely on it. Stay safe 👍👍☀️
When you first threw that throw line... I thought you were going to climb that and my heart skipped a beat; Those trees are incredibly scary. Personally I won't touch them, I have seen them explode on the ground sending limbs flying in all directions , some 20+ feet. That's your paygrade not mine.
Good to know there are trees that even you are unwilling to climb Helps the less experienced among us make better judgements. That thing was ridiculous. Like it was made out of pretzels
pin oak has fairly strong fibers but exceptionally weak junctions for oak - they are one of if not the fastest growing / softest oaks and co-dom or near-co-dom limbs inevitably grow fast enough to include bark. wind storms yield a decent harvest of pin oak for us firewood scavengers almost every year. Generally strong enough for climbing if not damaged but an extra 200 dynamic lbs should be added with caution.
I have only lived in the US for 19 years so I am not au fait with jargon. I don't even know what a "pick up stick" is... never mind a slice cut or a salami cut or a speed line or a whirly bird knot... I can imagine the trauma of the near miss coz I had a failed erection 40 years ago and it still haunts me in my dreams every night......
We use the "Whirly Bird" knot on a stick break dead branches...😂 but never pulled over a whole tree with a throwline!!! Incredible what decay can do...good to see you are all fine!
That's brittle and good way to handle it! I've had willows like that here in the upper Midwest. We had cable winch on a grapple and would run the cable up with throw line. Give it a few subtle tugs from 100 feet away with track machine to knock out the brittle dead.
Oh man that was sketch! I've heard a few stories about Alder being unbelievably unsafe after it's been dead for more than a year, with people saying don't climb, just drop them, even if there's still remnants of green on them. Your story at the beginning and the visual proof that even a throw line can bring branches, even tops down, gives those stories the context I hadn't previously seen.
The ash trees here on the East are all dying from the emerald ash borer. As you pointed out, the danger of a dead, or even dying ash, is off the charts. I have cut over 450 dead/dying ash in the last five years and every time it has been the most danger I've experienced in over 50 years in the woods. Thank you for this video, I hope anyone thinking of cutting trees watch it.
Damn sketchy!, I'm over here in the east not a `professional' arbor by any means and i wont climb dead or even near dead ash. I have many of those crumbly stinky totem poles on the hill behind my house. I usually wait till the majority of the limbs have fallen off before I even think about touching them, they also have horrible leans, so dropping them isn't just a 'awe man just fell it' for me. The maples on the other hand I'll go nearly to the top even when they are dead, they give you some warning if you get to a weak part.
Man, I don't know, the ash retains for quite some time. The Ash in these parts would have to be dead for quite some time, probably void of any bark to break limbs like this.
There was such a death tree maybe a hundred meters from my house at the side of a public footpath leading into the forest. The tree was a mighty Euopean white fir and dead for many years. When I first saw it there were maybe 15m left; the branches had lost their bark but were still pretty solid. Each autumn storm season did shorted it by a meter. In all likelihood it was going to fall during a storm when nobody was walking by - but that of course by no means is a safe bet. In my judgment the only safe thing to do was to pull it over but that may have required a cherry picker or similar to attach a rope safely. Which I don't have so I didn't take any directi action myself. As it's on public land I tried and failed to raise interest of the responsible authorities so nothing happened Then eventually after like 12 years the tree finally fell over this spring.
Thats what Ash tree's do in Michigan wounce dead for year's..the roots rot out and the entire tree falls over.. i do believe between tree company's and the Bore we have very little ash tree's anymore..and the city of Dearborn "used" to have thousands of city ash 🌳 because they are fast growers.. hole streets just bare after we got done..but what a mess cleaning it up..they hit the street and just explode everywhere!!
Thanx august. Ive been doin trees 20 years now. N had lota close ones. Less now cos i know. But yer not worth die for days pay! If to dodge ok walk away i rekon.
An alder was the one tree that nearly killed me. As in the video I was spiking up a dead alder, got about 45ft up the tree and snapped at the base. I ended up on the floor with the stem on top on me. Fortunately the tree hit a garage roof which saved me hitting the floor at full force. I got lucky and walked away with a few cuts a bruises but no other problems. Had to pay to get the garage roof repaired but thankfully that probably saved me from much worse injuries.
I’ve been working for a tree company since 2018 and my boss is 70 and can’t still spike a tree and any time a dead tree comes along they are treated a whole other way and it’s a lot of skill using ropes and sometimes pulleys but there’s always a safe way to get it done just always tackle them with care and caution
I have a half dozen ash trees that have been attacked by the now famous Emerald Ash Borers, and in the past they have acted similarly to the trees you filmed here. Carefulling is the key….
This video will save a life
A couple I’m sure
When I was a kid I liked to try & rock & push dead trees until they fell over...that is until one of them broke in many pieces overhead and came down all around me...I was lucky that time, only got hit by one of the smaller pieces...but it hurt pretty bad and I never did that again:)
Same here, learn real fast how to rock them nice n consistent n no sudden changes or the tops coming off 😝
My brother and a few friends also used to do this in our late teens. Sometimes with 3-4 of us surrounding a large dead stander and we'd get the rhythm going. It was a test of daring agility to scramble when it'd snap.
The springyness in some of them would give the snaps an extremely unpredictable whiplash effect that sent them spearing extrafast downward.
I still wear the scar of one on the side of my nose, 1/4 inch from blinding me 40 years later.
@@marcariotto1709 Wow a reminder of how lucky you were! I sometimes look back in aw of all of the narrow escapes I've had from the many sketchy/dumb things I did when I was young. My guardian angel must have a rather large hernia:)
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GA large hernia😂😂🤣
Absolutely!
We were smart (or lucky) enough to mostly stay out of Darwin award territory, but boy, we sure did hang with all his sibs and cousins😂🤣😂
did that to big old long dead tree top broke of and landed next to me nothing happened but scared me straight but that just being kid's pushing over dead trees till the get to big
I used to put TV antennas up in trees. (You do remember big TV antennas?) Had a customer who wanted me to put one up in an alder that had no limbs left on it and was punky. He couldn't understand why I said no frigging way would I climb that. I tossed a rope up in the tree, backed off 100 ft , handed him the rope and said "Pull". Tree did exactly what that tree did except it broke off 6' up. The carpenter ants just poured out of the break.. His comment was" Well I guess we can't use that tree then". Sigh........ Darwin Award material?
BTW August- If anyone wants you to put any type of antenna on a brick chimney,, or any other type, run away. The liability is horrible. I have seen 3-4 chimneys fall apart from the wind vibration of the antenna and go through the roof. One punched the roof then rolled down and crushed the fiberglass patio roof too. (Besides the chimney gasses and acids will eat up the aluminum antennas with corrosion. )
Amazing lesson for a layman like me. Y’all are like This Old House for tree work. Been a subscriber for a long while, always amazed at the cohesiveness MB crew.
Alternative title "Easiest tree removal ever, only used throw line"
i run a company here in PA and man let me tell you... those ash takedowns are nightmares. they break into a million pieces, and unless theres mushrooms visible on the wood you never really know how structurally sound they are. i just had a 36"DBH i was gonna climb and bomb tops out of... was too rotted at base for me to trust so i tied a come along and sent that bitch lol.
I'm in eastern PA. Company I work for sub contracts a spider lift any time we need work done in a backyard Ash. Signs of EAB or not
The last couple years have been the turning point here in MN. There are dead ash trees everywhere now. In general I'll climb most of the dead ash around here, but they are starting to get pretty ugly. I climbed a couple that must have been near the 'epicenter' that were long gone. One was spongy, the other was like a giant charcoal log. the chips sounded like coals from a fire. I'm sure it's about to get nasty as this plays out everywhere.
😂🤣😂🤣 taking down a top with throw line! ANSI and ISA gonna have to add that to the training and rules!
It’s part of the pruning BMP’s lol
that was nuts! thank you so much for sharing this, had no idea that level of sketch was even out there
I’ve ripped apart a few dead Lombardy Poplars with throwline from the ground.
Yep, that’s another turd that gets punky fast.
Thank you Brother August. God's Blessings to you and your team!!
man when you are right, you are right. That was a heck of call. Crazy.
PS; yes on the ash, I myself have cut hundreds of dead dry ash here in Virginia over the last 5 years, we're almost out of them thanks to the EAB. Very few left. And you are so right, they dry hard at first like concrete, but leave em standing too long and they fall apart. I hate standing under them when 'felling them especially if they have an arm over my head.
Great PSA for climbers, brother. Thank you for that. One for the memory bank for sure
Was Damien really batting 1000 with the throwball or creative editing? 🤔 Thanks for the video!
He was!!
Same with dead standing elm (not much left here in Missouri now) or Cottonwood. I feel like our dead ash is solid for a while but most gets cut for firewood pretty quickly I guess.
##getaugustto200k
"I did something dumb one day!" Every man worth his salt has brother!
Amen to that! Back when I was a noob climber I was rigging out a 4 or 5 inch top in a Sibo elm. Made my Humboldt, started my back cut when something stopped me (likely the good Lord). I looked up and I was still tied into it! 😳
...............G'day,
WOW! That was very interesting to know. Thank you August.
Cheers and God bless,
Malcolm.
Thanks for sharing your experience!
My folks' place is littered with dead alders like that. I've been clearing them out over the past few months. wicked, unpredictable trees but it is convenient how they break into little bite sized chunks when they hit the ground. I even pulled one over on accident, just the weight of a winch line hanging from a limb took it right off what roots it had left.
Knowledge is power ! Well done August !!! 👍 And you too Damion ya Beast 💪🤣
Agree silver birchs are so bad once dead. I was shocked the first time I polesawed a healthy live one, peelcuts perfectly, who knew...
Bit of doughnut the more you know. I’m liking this spate of uploads! Good informative video thank you
I will continue to pray for your safety daily, in Christ's name, Amen 😊
That tree looks like its made of mash potato on the innside😆
I’ve been having good luck with shaking the top end of birches out of them before getting into them
Also judging how long a poplar has been dead by how easily their dead mid stem branches snap off on my way up by sort of hammer fisting them off has been a good indicator of its brittleness. If they don’t snap off at all, it’s still got some good lignin/cellulose.
Play safe y’all
You didn’t quite seem yourself…because you know what hazards there are. Can’t beat experience.
What is the main r isk off ashes? Are they same britle as alder and birch ? Or thay vill uproot soon?
I always thought you guys climb too many trees anyway... many of them we would just drop them. If no room, rent a man lift and drop it from that height.
I've never met a safe alder; almost killed by a couple. Try to stay safe.
Congrats on making the safe call......and on Damien's hulk line towing :)
Ok. Hold my beer. Where's my spurs?
Excellent choice of not climbing !!!!
What’s happening 🫵😀 Family 🤠👌👌💯💯🤙💪👍Nice 😊 August 😌
Be especially weary of climbing the Betula Nana. Those can sneak up on you.
Hmm, probably wouldn’t have worried about sugar pine but makes perfect sense now that you mentioned it 👍🏼
Bad tree, I would never climb one of those. We have enough dead ash trees here. Lady out mushroom hunting had a ash tree fall and kill her a while back. We lost our archery range (70 years we rented it) last year. Owner didn't want any of his ash tree's killing someone. They where coming down every windy day.
climbed and removed loads of dead pines and larch trees, in fact a dead pine is the tallest tree ive ever removed at 110 feet (im in the UK so im sure ppl in the US think thats puny) removed a 60 foot dying lombardy poplar once tho and that was terrifying, so brittle and weak, wobbled so much but that was probably because the trunk was hollow at the base, havent been in the industry all that long tho so im sure ill find scarier trees
thanks.....FOR NOT CLIMBING OR FELLING THAT ROTTON dead thing....i am surprised it didn't just turn into dust when it hit the ground
Hey man, Thank you for this video. Everyone shows the sketchy climbs, but the sketchy did not climbs are just as informative!
East coast, southern yellow, 3-needle pine (I folded one like a giant "Jacob's Ladder" kids' toy, using only a throwline, barely tugged). Also, Sweet Gum after drought stress.
Absolutely not!!!!!😲😲😲😲
It always amazes me that trees as brittle as that aren't blown over by the wind.
Jesus Christ is with you! that's a good story.
Reminds me of our banksia trees we got here in Aus. I'm on the east coast NSW. Even when they're green they have a tendency to just snap at random. The dead ones just turn to dust. What's more annoying though is the wood is super heavy and it gets really heavy cone like berries.
Def wood not climb that.
I think ash is the worst tree
Thanks for your teaching and emphasis on safety! I love the whirlybird knot!
That looks way worse than most of the dead ash around me. 😱
Good one August.... sound advice.
Had a number of leafing trees that suffered a hard late spring freeze and they got crunchy like that.
Never seen an entire tree removal, just with ropes😂 stay safe peoples❤️
Yeah, ash trees break in a thousand pieces, very similar. Sometimes, you can pull really dead silver maple tops to.
scary stuff...it's a pull over but not a sweater (unless you climbed it)
Speed cut
Learn from your mistakes is what was drummed into me, you got lucky this time don’t try it again and sometimes accompanied with a slap around my ears to emphasise the point 😊
You can usually get a good idea of age/ integrity based on how much of the leaves and small twigs are left on the tree. Also the peeling bark depending on species. I do a lot of large dead Douglas fir removals and they are pretty solid for a good while.
Ya
The title of the video should’ve been removing tree with throw line
WOW
much love from new york
Uprooted
Dang
Alder is killer.
Looks worse than ash...!
Im not a fan of hickory when they die. I know a few people who have got hurt and one company by me his climber who passed away when he fell. They scare the crap out of me.
Yes, I was removing a hickory for a client and one section of it was dead. Don't work on hickories very often. that was the first day I got access to a bucket. truck- instead of having to climb out and rig it, I was able to snap cut- but barely had to, it was like cutting paper mache
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Yikes!
Whirly bird knots only work if you watch them.. soon as you look away or question them, they start to fail.. but with enough whirlys on the bird you can recover..
🤦♂️
Use a Clove or two instead 😜
👍 I like the science experiment 😎🌲
Batman would have climbed that.
That's... Even worse than most ash here in Pa.
Talk about brittle.
I wanna know how light those trunk pieces were.
Not light
@@AugustHunicke with as dry, and phunky as the inside of the broken parts looked-
Mind you I've never handled Alder before. I had to ask.
Thanks for bringing us on your journey and sharing this, August.
Stay safe out there 🙏🤘
@@treewisemenllc7281 winter and spring is water logged.
Absorbing it like a camel.
Whoa!
Wind can and does blow harder than his pull on the throw line..
It was just a matter of time and that tree could have hurt someone..
Y’all are saving lives! ❤
WOW. Literally felling a tree by 4 or 5 yanks on a string/thin rope. Scary stuff - and fascinating 👍👍👍.
I cut down two limbs of a tree today, using a technique I have seen you guys use; cutting so slow, that it bends down slowly. They were low hanging over a shed with a fragile roof, and I could not stear them free of it. The roof could hold up the weight of the limbs, but would have broken, if they had fallen freely on it.
Stay safe 👍👍☀️
When you first threw that throw line... I thought you were going to climb that and my heart skipped a beat; Those trees are incredibly scary. Personally I won't touch them, I have seen them explode on the ground sending limbs flying in all directions , some 20+ feet. That's your paygrade not mine.
Wreaked out an alder with a dead top today. Very sketchy, glad the client decided to get rid of it. Thanks for all the vids/advice. Take care.
You would think, from a risk of claim perspective, that your insurer would prohibit arborists from working on them.
Good to know there are trees that even you are unwilling to climb
Helps the less experienced among us make better judgements.
That thing was ridiculous.
Like it was made out of pretzels
6:27, could you imagine if you climbed that, tied off, & leaned back to hear “CRACK?”
If you're in Southern Ontario, do not climb dead Beech!!! Just like these Alders
Note to self stay on ground! Lol
pin oak has fairly strong fibers but exceptionally weak junctions for oak - they are one of if not the fastest growing / softest oaks and co-dom or near-co-dom limbs inevitably grow fast enough to include bark. wind storms yield a decent harvest of pin oak for us firewood scavengers almost every year. Generally strong enough for climbing if not damaged but an extra 200 dynamic lbs should be added with caution.
I have only lived in the US for 19 years so I am not au fait with jargon. I don't even know what a "pick up stick" is... never mind a slice cut or a salami cut or a speed line or a whirly bird knot... I can imagine the trauma of the near miss coz I had a failed erection 40 years ago and it still haunts me in my dreams every night......
We use the "Whirly Bird" knot on a stick break dead branches...😂 but never pulled over a whole tree with a throwline!!! Incredible what decay can do...good to see you are all fine!
Similar problem with dead quaking aspens. After a few years they fail at ground level pretty easily.
That's brittle and good way to handle it! I've had willows like that here in the upper Midwest. We had cable winch on a grapple and would run the cable up with throw line. Give it a few subtle tugs from 100 feet away with track machine to knock out the brittle dead.
Oh man that was sketch!
I've heard a few stories about Alder being unbelievably unsafe after it's been dead for more than a year, with people saying don't climb, just drop them, even if there's still remnants of green on them. Your story at the beginning and the visual proof that even a throw line can bring branches, even tops down, gives those stories the context I hadn't previously seen.
The ash trees here on the East are all dying from the emerald ash borer. As you pointed out, the danger of a dead, or even dying ash, is off the charts. I have cut over 450 dead/dying ash in the last five years and every time it has been the most danger I've experienced in over 50 years in the woods. Thank you for this video, I hope anyone thinking of cutting trees watch it.
Dead horse chestnuts are also very tricky to climb, breaks without warning.
Damien, I would trust it🤣👊 ya our ash trees are sketchy crap when dead longtime but still make good firewood thanks guys
Damn sketchy!, I'm over here in the east not a `professional' arbor by any means and i wont climb dead or even near dead ash. I have many of those crumbly stinky totem poles on the hill behind my house. I usually wait till the majority of the limbs have fallen off before I even think about touching them, they also have horrible leans, so dropping them isn't just a 'awe man just fell it' for me. The maples on the other hand I'll go nearly to the top even when they are dead, they give you some warning if you get to a weak part.
Man, I don't know, the ash retains for quite some time. The Ash in these parts would have to be dead for quite some time, probably void of any bark to break limbs like this.
There was such a death tree maybe a hundred meters from my house at the side of a public footpath leading into the forest. The tree was a mighty Euopean white fir and dead for many years. When I first saw it there were maybe 15m left; the branches had lost their bark but were still pretty solid. Each autumn storm season did shorted it by a meter. In all likelihood it was going to fall during a storm when nobody was walking by - but that of course by no means is a safe bet. In my judgment the only safe thing to do was to pull it over but that may have required a cherry picker or similar to attach a rope safely. Which I don't have so I didn't take any directi action myself. As it's on public land I tried and failed to raise interest of the responsible authorities so nothing happened Then eventually after like 12 years the tree finally fell over this spring.
Thats what Ash tree's do in Michigan wounce dead for year's..the roots rot out and the entire tree falls over.. i do believe between tree company's and the Bore we have very little ash tree's anymore..and the city of Dearborn "used" to have thousands of city ash 🌳 because they are fast growers.. hole streets just bare after we got done..but what a mess cleaning it up..they hit the street and just explode everywhere!!
Thanx august. Ive been doin trees 20 years now. N had lota close ones. Less now cos i know. But yer not worth die for days pay! If to dodge ok walk away i rekon.
Thank You August Good Bless
Sketchy stuff. I know the worth of standing dead-wood for habitat. But not in a location, where if it fails it could hurt someone or damage property.
An alder was the one tree that nearly killed me. As in the video I was spiking up a dead alder, got about 45ft up the tree and snapped at the base. I ended up on the floor with the stem on top on me. Fortunately the tree hit a garage roof which saved me hitting the floor at full force. I got lucky and walked away with a few cuts a bruises but no other problems. Had to pay to get the garage roof repaired but thankfully that probably saved me from much worse injuries.
You bunch of passes! Get up that tree and get it done!😡
That is what the dumb asshole boss would say. You guys are Awsome!
Dropped my first birch the other day. Kinda crazy how soft and weak they are. No warning it was starting to go on back cut, it just let go.
I’ve been working for a tree company since 2018 and my boss is 70 and can’t still spike a tree and any time a dead tree comes along they are treated a whole other way and it’s a lot of skill using ropes and sometimes pulleys but there’s always a safe way to get it done just always tackle them with care and caution
I have a half dozen ash trees that have been attacked by the now famous Emerald Ash Borers, and in the past they have acted similarly to the trees you filmed here. Carefulling is the key….