Northeast Gardening: Garden Projects 3 - 2010, 1 by bbrookrd

bbrookrd wrote:
DH and Friend use block and tackle to tie off trees to our truck via a come-a-long to land them where they should go. I am always impressed with the math they use to get the angles right. They used a big ladder to get the rope up high enough on this one in the collage. It still had plenty of strength to lean against with the ladder, but my DH did clear under it, before he climbed up, so if he had to bail out he wouldn't land on big dead branches under it. They took down 3 trees last Feb. I hated to see them go, but they had all died and were raining down dead limbs in every storm.

We had a huge tree in Vt that needed to come down and it cost us 500.00 dollars plus the wood, to have felled professionally about 10 years ago, as it was along the road and very close to our house. There was no way to take it down ourselves. The tree guys used a big bucket truck and lowered everything with ropes. They came with a huge chipper attached to the back of a log truck. They then hauled away the big stuff as part of their payment. It's mate was across the road and leaning away from everything, but we were too cheap to have it done at the same time. Nature this winter saved us at least another 500.00 bucks when she dropped that tree in a perfect spot. We did the clean up. Patti