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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHow to cut down a tree.
(I got this in an email)
He and one of his co-workers were driving by and had to circle the block.
It's a guy cutting down a tree in his backyard. The house is located on
Third Avenue across from the Library.
Keith also said the cops showed up telling the guy he couldn't do what he
Was doing. He told them to go to hell, it's his property and his tree.
One Darwin Award coming up.
madokie
(51,076 posts)not sure what he has it connected too, a sky hook maybe.
What an idiot no doubt.
I wonder if there is a follow up to this story to let us know how it turned out.
Jenoch
(7,720 posts)above the chainsaw.
giftedgirl77
(4,713 posts)that was fully extended. Your down in the Carolinas like me where pretty much anything goes, you would think they would at least put down some gym mats or matress.... Geez, at least give the dude a chance.
DamnYankeeInHouston
(1,365 posts)Why Women Live Longer Than Men.
Rex
(65,616 posts)Bad! It is a good thing he is thinking about safety!
KG
(28,749 posts)TheCowsCameHome
(40,163 posts)No worries.
bluesbassman
(19,310 posts)MineralMan
(146,192 posts)The power company will come and deal with that tree for no charge. He needs to get down off that ladder and leave this to the experts. He's going to kill himself up there.
As they say here, Uff da!
WCLinolVir
(951 posts)Dominion will only cut/trim tree limbs directly over the lines themselves. They will not take a tree out. And I had to call them twice.
MineralMan
(146,192 posts)I called our power company here about some maple saplings that were in the wires. I had removed some that I could remove safely, but didn't want to mess with the taller ones. Their contract tree company came, cut every thing down to the ground, chipped it all up, including the stuff I removed, and said thanks for calling.
Later, they came and removed a red oak tree from my neighbor's yard that might have someday fallen on the power lines. They even ground the stump. No charge to the owner.
WCLinolVir
(951 posts)Maybe there is more than one power company in Minn and they are not willing to do it?
WCLinolVir
(951 posts)to the cost of replacing the wires and/or shed and fence. Not to mention potential med bills. You never know which way the top will fall 100%. That's why he should have ground support and at least 2 ropes to pull it away from any obstacles. And the rest of the tree can move when the top is cut off.
I see he has ground support. Or a future victim.
Leme
(1,092 posts)Growing behind his garage (4 feet from my yard)...and it was starting to shade my yard.
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I offered to cut it down because neither his garage nor my yard needed shading. but Nooooooooooo.
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After a few year it grew from 15 feet to about 25 or so. It was now getting as high as the power lines.
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He and two friends now decided to remove this useless tree( a scrub elm) only because the city ordered him to do so...Dutch elm disease.
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One guy was up in this rather small tree, using a saddle, chainsaw. They could stand on garage and get a lot done also.
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I went back inside to watch tv But just for a while. Tv went off. Electricity went off.
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The guy had cut a branch and touched a 20,000 volt wire. The tree trunk was still smoking some along its length when I looked.
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Ambulance took him to hospital and he was back in a few hours.
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The electricity was off in a six block area about that long also.
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Electric company crew came and finished the job using cherry picker.
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,781 posts)snooper2
(30,151 posts)Brother Buzz
(36,217 posts)The lowest line is telephone, not power. No television cable in that neighborhood, either
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,781 posts)I'm suggesting it's a photoshop and that's the spot where someone photoshopped in the upper part of the tree.
Plus, I use cell phones all the time and there's nothing brain with my wrong!
Jenoch
(7,720 posts)I thought it was photoshopped then, and I still do now. I do not think it would be possible to climb the second ladder in the position it is on that tree.
crjo0202
(1 post)If you simply go to Shakopee, MN on google maps or better yet, use bing.com and do the birds eye view you can find the alley, the tree and everything.
I actually got this (and many other) pictures from a co-worker in that county, which is just an hour north of me.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)I am dying to see where the top of that tree ends up.
from here, looks like the garage is the landing spot.
Leme
(1,092 posts)you tie top part to bottom part; attach rope to topmost as high as possible; make two PARTIAL cuts in area midway between these tie offs
1 cut----------->trunk
trunk
trunk<--------2nd cut
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pull with tractor seen on bottom LEFT.
top falls as far as connecting rope allows
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Let's hope he saw that also ( saw...heh heh)
Leme
(1,092 posts)but if the ladder he is on is secure at top and bottom, and he has his safety harness attached to something ok... he is doing a fine job.
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looks like he took down the most dangerous branches already, and a major limb that his ladder now stands on.
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just getting that ladder he is on...whew, and the ladder resting in the tractor bucket, that must have been some doing
srican69
(1,426 posts)A hand saw
shanti
(21,672 posts)are best left to professionals!
lpbk2713
(42,696 posts)One of my self-proclaimed unabashed Teabagger neighbors recently did some tree trimming stretching out from the top of an extension ladder while using a corded circular saw. I couldn't bear to watch. I was waiting to hear the sounds of ambulance sirens approaching at any time though.
yuiyoshida
(41,764 posts)Nuts.
CreekDog
(46,192 posts)not only are their reasons to require that it be professionally done, the removal of trees affects the community, so often the permit will require that it be replaced in some form.
Gormy Cuss
(30,884 posts)Severe pollarding, common in the SF Bay area, creates ugly, stunted trees like this:
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)That being said, I want to comment on his supposed comment to the cops. I am normally a person who wants cops to have limited authority as to actions people take on their own property. Clearly there would be numerous exceptions. But in this instance, if it were real, the public could be at risk of incurring large costs. His property? Sure. His tree? Sure. Possible damages to others? Absolutely.
Thanks for sharing. Cool picture to look at.
CountAllVotes
(20,854 posts)The cost was $300.00 for both of them.
It was well worth it having a business that removes trees do it with a license to back their work up.
Doing this on your own was a pretty dumb idea at best.
One bad fall = god only knows what.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)I've had to remove 10 old oaks and pines (severe Texas drought) & this is about how they do it.
Such a big old nice tree it's a shame to see them go.
mike_c
(36,214 posts)Personally, I'd have done it from ropes, not used those ladders. A full saddle and a couple of arborist's ropes would be much safer than those ladders.
Jenoch
(7,720 posts)a real moron cutting down that tree. I did not see anything on the news about this guy falling from the tree, so he must have survived.
greytdemocrat
(3,299 posts)but people are very stupid at times.
Cops should have pluged him...
Shankapotomus
(4,840 posts)how it went.
krispos42
(49,445 posts)I've seen how this on World's Dumbest... a sudden horizontal displacement, a ballistic trajectory, and a full body cast.