Tree Hanging by a ThreadUpdated: August 20th, 2020
Created: July 29th, 2020This is a continuation of the work removing trees from adjacent Trekensa Gardens' House.
I had a fairly serious problem. I was trying to cut down the two remaining trees form the top but found it too difficult and decided to fell them. After various scenarios I decided to fell the smaller oner that leant in to the land and leave the other to more thought.
Using the chainsaw I stood in the hedge upon the stumps from other trunks. The tree didn't fall/ I had forgot to remove the nylon rope that I had used to secure the ladder to both the remaining trees. The tree fell sideways the top end falling in an ash whilst the lower hung from the ladder. I was worried about more damage to the ladder but it seemed OK.
Hanging by nylon rope
One trunk standing.
Climbing the ladder to secure it was a worry as I had to be under the trunk for quite a while and frequently. Eventually I managed to loop a wire rope around it to stop it falling completely, but could still drop on me some few feet. Then I added another rope, much tighter to take some weight. Then I manoeuvred a piece of wood so that when I could let the trunk down it would slide away from the ladder. I then managed to remove the rope holding the trunk to the ladder.
Next I sawed the thick protruding end off to save some weight but couldn't unhook the truck from wire I had initially added so I decided to cut the truck the other side which mean two bits would fall a bit randomly.
I removed the ladder that was After more roping and using a bow saw the main part of the trunk fell and flipped over, missing me behind the remaining trunk. I then managed to lift the smaller part, unhook it from the wire and lowered it to the ground. Phew!
18th August I wired the top of the tree via a 5x pulley to tension it towards the field as it had a slight lean towards Trekensa Garden. Sadly I was in too much of a hurry to take a picture of the tension cabling.
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