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Originally Posted by Unregistered
That old pi thing - 3.14 - a 16" around tree is 5.1" diameter.
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That sounds about right (like i would know
) --- it's really a spindley, awful looking thing --- skinny as can be, sickly and about 20-25' tall. Just pitiful!
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A $12 bow saw would take it down real nice. A 5" tree hardly pays to cut a notch. Just be sure it doesn't lean the wrong way.....
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I have two little bow saws I cart around with me at all times. I've been able to down a lot of trees (although there's that one elm :no: ).
This silver maple, though is r-e-a-l-l-y tall!
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If a tree is very tall or leaning or branching over a building, etc. It is much, much, much, much safer to cut it down while alive & green, than to kill it off & then cut it down some years later. A dead tree will shatter branches off of it. A green tree qill be much softer when it hits the ground, and not wreck as much.
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Yes. Actually, I think I should make clear that my approach to this tree is to pester is so much, it finally just gives up and lets me cut it down. I hope to have it completely down by the end of the summer or, at the latest, by the time winter comes. It's just that it's sooooo tall that it's taking a bit more than the usual degree of pestering I apply to situations like this.
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I think most people are trying to look out for your safety here when they suggest cutting it down, rather than killing it. Without knowing the particulars, creating a dead standing tree is a lot scarier that using a chainsaw to cut down a green tree!!! Those dead ones are dangerous.
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And I really do appreciate it. At the very least, I'm learning a lot --- thanks to the people on this thread, I now have numerous tools in my arsenal to fend off this tree and its attempts to stay upright, despite all my deviling. I can also use a lot of these hints on some of the 2 billion trees around the property i need to get down.
I guess I just don't want people to worry too much about this --- I'm already planning on the tree landing on the world's largest juniper bush (this thing is as big as one of my sheds and appears to be indestructible). And I'm asking because I know it's a kind of dangerous proposition. But I think I've schemed it out to be a relatively safe venture.
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We had a lot of rain here in Minnesota too. Finally caught a break, the water left the corn & bean fields. Now, to decide if it pays to replant the drowned out wet spots.....
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It finally stopped here. But I'm now all involved in indoor projects. And it's supposed to start again in a few hours.
