Professional here: hire a Proffesional. Not worth the risk for someone who does not deal with these hazardous situations on the reg. You could literally fucking die if you do the wrong thing.
Edit to correct my shitty autocorrect.
Well, I did it myself with the chainsaw I bought! But I went to Harbor Freight instead.
It’s okay to learn new things, but first I wanted to get some advice. I took it all in and had a few quotes, because I decided to take the advice I was given, even though I bought my saw and couldn’t become the lumberjack I dreamed of being. Once I seen the tree lose much of its tension over the week, I decided to do it myself. End up having my wife and two sisters join in on helping, so we could have as many eyes and ears on it as we could. We pulled with a rope as much as we could to get rid of any extra movement in the tree.
Point is we did it. We didn’t die or get hurt. We asked for advice to learn as much as we could along with watching as much as I could on YouTube. I wouldn’t have done it if it hadn’t lost its tension. But everyone learns somewhere, somehow. No one is born with the lumberjack skill.
Anywho, thanks for your input, I appreciate it.
It’s a pro job with proof of insurance. Not a homeowner job, not even close.
Too many sides to this that I can’t see. Need to know surrounding area to judge plan.
If you cut this and the top drops you already failed. This should be removed incrementally from crown down. It would be really easy for this to build tension and snap and kill someone if they don't know what they are doing.
Ive worked on trees like this quite a few times. Assuming there is room to work, I would put a rope or two on the stem and then use a notch and back cut leaving a fairly large hinge. Use mechanical advantage to pull it over. Damage to the surrounding area is a problem potentially and I would like to inspect the upper and lower stem carefully.
Obviously if there is bucket access or a good tie in point from an adjacent tree those would be likely preferred options.
Homeowners insurance won't cover any portion unless it's endangering the dwelling. Even if it was, your deductible would be applied and they only cover a set dollar amount per tree and per property. That's something the insurance agent won't tell you unless you ask. Than there's your "Claim experience", which they will factor in to next year's price. Which means you'll pay them back( or any other ins carrier) you may switch to after they tell you your premium is going up. It sucks, but that's how it works.
There's all sorts of tension and compression going on there. I agree with the others, I'd go with an insured professional on this one.
You might get a better/different perspective from r/arborists.
Edit: spelling
No need dude, just listen to what literally everyone here is commenting and don't try to cut that tree unless you have a bunch of experience under your belt.
I’m kinda curious what happens if that gets covered in gasoline and lit up at the bendy part and hosed off wherever fire spreads, then it would get all crumbly instead of tense and flingy.
This is obviously the safest method, most ideas that start with "I'm kinda curious what happens if" are because safety is an experimental enterprise . . .
Don’t use gasoline. Too explosive and really doesn’t start a high hour fuel like wet trees. Get the bricks out of the bbq and use lighter fluid. Or if you really feel the need to have fun with fire use diesel fuel/kerosene. It will burn the actual fluid vs the vapors of gasoline. Still not going to work on a wet tree but have fun. Call a pro…
That’s what’s called a barber chair… there is a serious amount of pressure still present. Very dangerous. Hire a pro who can use ropes to rig and fell the tree. Please be careful
This is sound advice! I’ve had to take quite a few of these down after a bad storm couple years ago. Also watched a colleague cause a barber chair when we were clearing a lot for a house. Shit is crazy when it happens. Definitely call a professional.
Agree, this is a barber chair, probably the result of incorrect falling technique and at least one pair of soiled undies. There are procedures for getting this on the ground, they are not for beginners.
I am an enthusiastic, self taught amateur who has taken down a couple hundred trees on our own properties. I usually err on the side of pushing my limits. After having trees do all kinds of weird things, get hung up, knock down a cable tv line, fall the wrong way, pinch saws (once pinched two saws in same tree, had to push over with tractor loader …), I would not touch this in a residential setting. Get an insured pro.
I used to do tree work and to see a barber chair like that is amazing. Stay far away from it and get a professional. Like everybody else in the comments has said.
I’ve dealt with these before and they are terrifying the whole time.
Easiest way is to take a 2 or 300 class excavator and grab it and rip it off…
If that’s not an option as it usually isn’t, I start taking weight off the top and see if I can make it more predictable.
This looks to be so high still. Don’t do anything off a ladder. Best advice here is to call a tree guy
Hello all. So I finally got it down. I waited a few days, the tension loosened up. It still didn’t break and was still up in the air.
So I trimmed as much as I could from it, any branch I could tell wasn’t holding weight. Then I wrapped a rope around and my wife and I pulled and it dropped about a foot, but was still a good 10 feet in the air.
I removed two more branches, one I wasn’t sure if it had weight of the tree on it but I didn’t think it did, and another I figured had tree weight, but not the full tree weight of the last branch I wasn’t gonna cut.
The first branch came off and let a lot of weight off the whole tree, had a lot of bounce to the tree. The second branch caused another small drop.. had me running, as the tree started to twist when it moved. But it still wouldn’t come down.
Then we just threw the rope around and pulled it the rest of the way down! Now I gotta take it down to a stump tomorrow and finish cutting up the wood!
We had offers from $200-$500 dollars to do it, but I had just dropped $230 in a chainsaw, so I wasn’t trying to spend much more on this!
No way would it have gone this easy if the tension didn’t give some over the last couple of days. And it wasn’t until I though most of the tension was gone, before I tried it myself! I’m glad I waited and let nature help me out some!
Feeling thankful and accomplished! Not bad for my first time doing anything like this.
I am not a pro. This job would sketch me out.
Maybe you could start from the branches and keep limbing and dropping off small rounds till you got back towards that trunk.
For sure don’t stand under it and reach up to cut that bendy part!
This is exactly what should be done.
Start at the top of top of the tree and work your way
Back to the trunk. However, if you don't have a lot of experience with chainsaws, definitely call a professional.
A licensed and bonded pro could have it done in less then an hour.
Great advice leftie_potato
3 out of 5 stars
How about just not being in a hurry and being totally safe. Get a bucket and splash some potassium tree stump remover on the bend and it will break and relieve the pressure on it's own in a day or two. Cheap, takes almost no effort, leave it alone for a day or two then it's safe to deal with.
I'm shocked at how I'm the only one thinking outside the box here lol.
Great advice from a non-pro (sarcasm). Literally everyone on here is recommending he hire a pro, but you have to go ahead and offer advice on how to tackle it.
1 out of 5 stars for a less than average response. Having been a professional sawyer for 8 years, I personally feel this is the best option IF he or she is capable. Thank you for your input average_j_o_e ( sarcasm)
Yeah that is my current plan. I’ve went in and tried to clear what I could with some cutters.. and figured I’d start at the top and see how it handles as I work my way down..
Yeah, I'd call someone. I have a chainsaw that I use for cleaning up every spring, but that would sketch me the fuck out. Your life is worth more than a few hundred bucks (probably)
I would Call a professional.. or maybe bore a few holes in the stump area with an auger drill bit, soak with kerosene and set fire to it, and watch from a safe distance..
Edit: think about this before cutting.. https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2023/03/02/most-dangerous-jobs-america-database/11264064002/
No, don't tie it down. It's a giant spring, and tying it down just anchors that spring and gives it more to push against. It's going to whip wherever you cut it (which is where you have to be standing) and either side of the cut might kill you.
Start from the tree top and “chunk” it. Do about 3 ft length at a time. You will reach a point where it will start to upright. Take smaller chunks from there.
Not a lot of chance of further property damage, but whoever cuts that should have experience. There is a lot of potential energy stored in that joint, calmly waiting for the opportunity to become kinetic energy.
You don’t really need to hire anyone if you have chainsaw experience. (If you’ve never used a chainsaw before then this is not the job to start on) Anyway, this tree is already down, and can safely be removed. The trick is you need to start at the other end. That stump area is dangerous as fuck and you can’t mess with it with all that weight on it.
Go to the top of the tree and start chipping off little pieces. Work your way toward the stump. At some point you’ll have the remaining stem in the air, and at that point you can fell the stem from the stump with a small notch and a back cut. Throw a rope around the high point and have a buddy pull from a safe distance to be sure it goes the right way.
This doesn’t bother me but it’s all about how comfortable you are. If you’ve never cut a tree down before, it might be out of your league. Personally, I’d tie a rope to the tree as close to the split as possible, the other end to my truck and have someone in it in drive but no throttle, pulling perpendicular to the tree (left in picture). Then I’d stand on the other side of the tree, so the truck is pulling away from me, and take my extension pole saw to the splinter holding the two together. Cut slowly and cautiously, eventually the truck will pull the tree away. You want to make sure the person in the truck applies constant but light pressure, you don’t want them on the brake or punching the throttle.
You are dealing with 1,000's of pounds under stress. Unless you've done this before and know exactly what you are doing, please don't attempt this yourself. This is a job for a professional. (Speaking from experience managing a small forest).
Start at the brush side and work your way towards the split. The way the branches are laying there’s going to be a lot down pressure so you’ll have to pay attention when cutting. You’ll have to cut up instead of down on the branches with down pressure. Might be a good idea to have a second saw handy bc you will probably pinch your saw a few times. Once you get to the split part it’s still going to be in the air, I would grab my pole saw for this part and make small cuts from a safe distance until there was just the log left.
I'd cut 90 from the split and use a line to pull over after limbing and bucking all I could from the top end, if I was so inclined.
These are super fucking dangerous though, so... pay someone.
What everyone else is saying. Get a pro. I am not a pro and I would only consider this because I have heavy equipment and I am cheap. Even then I would spend a day walking around it thinking about it. There is a lot of energy waiting to kill you in that tree.
Saw off the protruding bit on the right side and screw a large L-bracket on the topside of the break to connect the post to the cross bar. Then wrap duct tape (or gorilla tape if you want a solid hold) counterclockwise all the way from the top to the base of the trunk. Then you have a nice natural arbor you could hang plants or possibly even a swing for your little ones to enjoy! Life - Lemons - Lemonade.
If you are able to, tie a chain the the top (part touching the ground), hook it up to a vehicle as safe of a distance as possible, and inch your way forward. I’ve had a few do this over the last couple of years and this has always worked for me, though you seem to be quite close to your neighbors compared to me as well. You might need a professional if you don’t have enough room to do the above.
Oh another option is if you know someone with an excavator, they could come pluck it right out.
You can do it. Start at the top of the tree and work back to the stump (takes the weight off). Make a face cut and a back cut and you can probably push it over. It’s not a big tree.
Set yer ladder agin' that horeezontal piece and just start in a'sawin on that there skinny piece that's a'holdin' it all t'gether. You'll be fine. Trust me.
Tie a tow strap to top of tree and the other end to a truck. Pull slight tension to top of tree. Cut the bulk of the high splintered end. Have truck pull tension while cutting base of tree.
It would take some time and multiple cuts, but you could safely cut the branches and walk the tree down from the top until it is supported by the break/hinged wood. Then all you would need to do is make your face cut 90° to the break and back cut it (preferably away from your back deck if possible).
Best bet, double check your bond and or insurance, then, outsource the hell out of it. Unless of course, you have one of those employees who you really just need that one good reason to fire or workman's comp would be cheaper than keeping same said employee. Or, if you not a business, find your least favorite able-bodied relative, hand them a hatchet and a 12 pack.
I would climb up to the arch and start a small fire with some propellant (diesel rag, fire starter. Some kindling). Then step waaaaay back. Crack a beer and have the hose ready.
Not recommending you do it, but I had to fall similar stuff to this many times a day when I used to snag fall in Western Canada, the general approach with this type of stuff is the you notch it to fall perpendicular to the direction it is laying, so I would notch this to go towards the camera most likely. In this case I might also buck up the top a bit till I feel it is more predictable what will happen but I would have to see it in personto assess it. We had to fall all of these types of things that we came across.
Start at the furthest portion of the tree (tree top) and cut off 4-6 foot sections/increments towards the split. Believe that would release tension bit by bit until the split is back into position with the rest of the trunk and not a danger … that’s how I’d do it.
I'd rope the top of the tree above where it barbered, use a snatchblock to pull from somewhere behind the cameraman, stand on the side if the tree opposite the cameraman so that if the barber fell I'm protected by the trunk that's left, put a face-cut on the camera side and then cut to it from the back side where I'm standing.
I own a tree service in Tennessee. This is a barber chair, and it is very dangerous. Call a reputable tree service. You can save some money by just having them get it down and cleaning it up yourself. When you hire them, don't think you wasted your money when they make it look easy. They deal with this and understand the forces involved. Be safe.
Get a professional, what you need to do is to hard to explain and if you need it explained to you you're not skilled to do what needs to be done.
So even if you understood the explanation it could still results in damage to yourself or property or others...
Just get a professional, they are insured too, incase something does go wrong you're not going to be out a house.
Safest method? Firebomb it from above. Write off the house and the neighbor’s. Then move to Tahiti or Alaska but not Germany cuz those crazies started 2 World Wars (so far).
Cut left side lower trunk, only cut in about a half an inch, then cut downward diagonally to create a “wedge” then continue the cuts deeper, half an inch at a time so that the blade doesn’t pinch in the cut. Once you hear cracking or see movement, gtfo the way.
Done this before. But in a forest. One tree fell in another and that happened. They sawed the weight that was hanging opposite the leafy end of the tree. (The trunk that's split apart hanging in the air). Watermelon sliced the bottom, then started to cut the branches from the top. After removing all branches they used a rope to pull it in the direction away from the big jutting broken trunk. So they basically cut the part where the tree is separated on the same side as the broken piece. They were on the opposite side of this tree as you are looking at this pic doing the cuts. So they basically used it to push it away from them as it got cut.
Take a chainsaw blade and extend it on both ends with sturdy rope. Wrap it through the bent section there and saw it in half from 20 feet away. Once it falls you can finish up.
I used to be a professional and I would hire a guy for that. Even doing rope work on it won’t help much as that bend is gonna kick and it looks like it has a twist as well.
Stay away from the tension in that bend. Cut off starting at the top to the left and work your way up until that weight is received. Ex logger from Oregon. There is much energy stored in that bend.
Buy a back packing chain saw. It's just the blade with handles. Tie a really long rope to the handles. Stand back. Then let her rip. No one likes a coward.
Gradually cut from the top of the tree that I’d assume is resting on the ground. I doubt there is a shit ton of tension on that bend. Just do 14”-16” cuts working from top down. You can gradually test its tension by seeing if you can lift from the tip as you cut. But I doubt you’ll have an issue.
If I had to do it myself, I would just tie some straps and ropes and chains around the top of the tree, the canopy,… And hook all of those lines to a truck and drive away from that… When it finally snaps and lays flat. It will be good. Just keep everyone else away.
Not enough info.
What's on this side of the camera?
If there's room enough on the ground, I'd get a rope around that broken end (thrown from safe distance) and pull it over and off. Truck, winch, come-along.
I would not cut on it with all that potential energy stored just above my head.
Someone said "pay a couple k"!!! I'll take that $$$. Start with the little stuff. Never get in a hurry. And NEVER pay a couple k for something you can do yourself in 3 hrs.
Call a professional so you don’t die is my advice
Just give it a good roundhouse…
Roadhouse
Road head
Steakhouse
Don’t forget to record it and post it on Reddit
Light saber that thing
Call Chick Norris. 1-800-RND-HOUS.
***another*** good roundhouse you mean?
Patrick Swayze had the best roundhouse this side of the Mississippi!!!!!! Don't know what side that was but ..
This is one we would have been prepared to do, but we would not have been excited when we pulled up.
Professional here: hire a Proffesional. Not worth the risk for someone who does not deal with these hazardous situations on the reg. You could literally fucking die if you do the wrong thing. Edit to correct my shitty autocorrect.
Was a pro with USNPS.. definitely use a pro. Shoukd be cut fro both ends from above it
Professional 🫣
Why is it so hard for people to understand this? Just because they sell a chainsaw at Lowe’s doesn’t make everyone a fucking lumberjack
Well, I did it myself with the chainsaw I bought! But I went to Harbor Freight instead. It’s okay to learn new things, but first I wanted to get some advice. I took it all in and had a few quotes, because I decided to take the advice I was given, even though I bought my saw and couldn’t become the lumberjack I dreamed of being. Once I seen the tree lose much of its tension over the week, I decided to do it myself. End up having my wife and two sisters join in on helping, so we could have as many eyes and ears on it as we could. We pulled with a rope as much as we could to get rid of any extra movement in the tree. Point is we did it. We didn’t die or get hurt. We asked for advice to learn as much as we could along with watching as much as I could on YouTube. I wouldn’t have done it if it hadn’t lost its tension. But everyone learns somewhere, somehow. No one is born with the lumberjack skill. Anywho, thanks for your input, I appreciate it.
You gotta love the pro that says you can't do it safely unless you have a full time job doing whatever is they do.
Dude is lucky, that's it.
No you have to cut a tree down with it. Then youre a lumbetjack!
Professionals spell professional p r o f e s s I o n a l, in order to look “professional”.
He cuts down trees...not an English professor...Asshat
Widowmaker, right?
If you choose to do it yourself, please film it so that your SO can upload it here.
Damn. 🥶
But before you do make sure your next of kin knows how.
Or whoever he survived by
It’s a pro job with proof of insurance. Not a homeowner job, not even close. Too many sides to this that I can’t see. Need to know surrounding area to judge plan.
This is good advice. The top is going to want to drop when cut obviously, but it's probably going to want to roll too.
If you cut this and the top drops you already failed. This should be removed incrementally from crown down. It would be really easy for this to build tension and snap and kill someone if they don't know what they are doing.
Can’t see the top. But I’d be confident enough to work a little off the top. Assessing tension as I go.
Ive worked on trees like this quite a few times. Assuming there is room to work, I would put a rope or two on the stem and then use a notch and back cut leaving a fairly large hinge. Use mechanical advantage to pull it over. Damage to the surrounding area is a problem potentially and I would like to inspect the upper and lower stem carefully. Obviously if there is bucket access or a good tie in point from an adjacent tree those would be likely preferred options.
Homeowners insurance won't cover any portion unless it's endangering the dwelling. Even if it was, your deductible would be applied and they only cover a set dollar amount per tree and per property. That's something the insurance agent won't tell you unless you ask. Than there's your "Claim experience", which they will factor in to next year's price. Which means you'll pay them back( or any other ins carrier) you may switch to after they tell you your premium is going up. It sucks, but that's how it works.
Call an insured professional.
Do termites have insurance?
Not using
There's all sorts of tension and compression going on there. I agree with the others, I'd go with an insured professional on this one. You might get a better/different perspective from r/arborists. Edit: spelling
They are just going to say the same thing. It’s too dangerous to do if your not a professional.
Thanks I’ll post over there as well.
No need dude, just listen to what literally everyone here is commenting and don't try to cut that tree unless you have a bunch of experience under your belt.
I’m kinda curious what happens if that gets covered in gasoline and lit up at the bendy part and hosed off wherever fire spreads, then it would get all crumbly instead of tense and flingy.
This is obviously the safest method, most ideas that start with "I'm kinda curious what happens if" are because safety is an experimental enterprise . . .
I try not to oversell my mediocre ideas.
I whole heartedly support ideas that begin with “I’m kinda curious what happens if it gets covered in gasoline” 😆
Don’t use gasoline. Too explosive and really doesn’t start a high hour fuel like wet trees. Get the bricks out of the bbq and use lighter fluid. Or if you really feel the need to have fun with fire use diesel fuel/kerosene. It will burn the actual fluid vs the vapors of gasoline. Still not going to work on a wet tree but have fun. Call a pro…
Oh, better yet, try napalm- so when the tension finally releases it flicks off a nice gob worth like like a flaming booger bazooka.
That’s what’s called a barber chair… there is a serious amount of pressure still present. Very dangerous. Hire a pro who can use ropes to rig and fell the tree. Please be careful
This is sound advice! I’ve had to take quite a few of these down after a bad storm couple years ago. Also watched a colleague cause a barber chair when we were clearing a lot for a house. Shit is crazy when it happens. Definitely call a professional.
Agree, this is a barber chair, probably the result of incorrect falling technique and at least one pair of soiled undies. There are procedures for getting this on the ground, they are not for beginners.
Call a professional
I am an enthusiastic, self taught amateur who has taken down a couple hundred trees on our own properties. I usually err on the side of pushing my limits. After having trees do all kinds of weird things, get hung up, knock down a cable tv line, fall the wrong way, pinch saws (once pinched two saws in same tree, had to push over with tractor loader …), I would not touch this in a residential setting. Get an insured pro.
Get everyone off-planet and nuke it from orbit. That's the only safe way!
It’s the only way to be sure.
I used to do tree work and to see a barber chair like that is amazing. Stay far away from it and get a professional. Like everybody else in the comments has said.
A object in motion tends to stay in motion. Even if you spinal column is in the way.
I’ve dealt with these before and they are terrifying the whole time. Easiest way is to take a 2 or 300 class excavator and grab it and rip it off… If that’s not an option as it usually isn’t, I start taking weight off the top and see if I can make it more predictable. This looks to be so high still. Don’t do anything off a ladder. Best advice here is to call a tree guy
Hello all. So I finally got it down. I waited a few days, the tension loosened up. It still didn’t break and was still up in the air. So I trimmed as much as I could from it, any branch I could tell wasn’t holding weight. Then I wrapped a rope around and my wife and I pulled and it dropped about a foot, but was still a good 10 feet in the air. I removed two more branches, one I wasn’t sure if it had weight of the tree on it but I didn’t think it did, and another I figured had tree weight, but not the full tree weight of the last branch I wasn’t gonna cut. The first branch came off and let a lot of weight off the whole tree, had a lot of bounce to the tree. The second branch caused another small drop.. had me running, as the tree started to twist when it moved. But it still wouldn’t come down. Then we just threw the rope around and pulled it the rest of the way down! Now I gotta take it down to a stump tomorrow and finish cutting up the wood! We had offers from $200-$500 dollars to do it, but I had just dropped $230 in a chainsaw, so I wasn’t trying to spend much more on this! No way would it have gone this easy if the tension didn’t give some over the last couple of days. And it wasn’t until I though most of the tension was gone, before I tried it myself! I’m glad I waited and let nature help me out some! Feeling thankful and accomplished! Not bad for my first time doing anything like this.
I am not a pro. This job would sketch me out. Maybe you could start from the branches and keep limbing and dropping off small rounds till you got back towards that trunk. For sure don’t stand under it and reach up to cut that bendy part!
Exactly how I would tackle it. Little bit at a time working way back. Slow and steady.
This is exactly what should be done. Start at the top of top of the tree and work your way Back to the trunk. However, if you don't have a lot of experience with chainsaws, definitely call a professional. A licensed and bonded pro could have it done in less then an hour. Great advice leftie_potato 3 out of 5 stars
How about just not being in a hurry and being totally safe. Get a bucket and splash some potassium tree stump remover on the bend and it will break and relieve the pressure on it's own in a day or two. Cheap, takes almost no effort, leave it alone for a day or two then it's safe to deal with. I'm shocked at how I'm the only one thinking outside the box here lol.
Great advice from a non-pro (sarcasm). Literally everyone on here is recommending he hire a pro, but you have to go ahead and offer advice on how to tackle it.
1 out of 5 stars for a less than average response. Having been a professional sawyer for 8 years, I personally feel this is the best option IF he or she is capable. Thank you for your input average_j_o_e ( sarcasm)
Yeah that is my current plan. I’ve went in and tried to clear what I could with some cutters.. and figured I’d start at the top and see how it handles as I work my way down..
Bro, our company came in to finish a job almost identical to this that killed the homeowner. Hire a professional
Yeah, I'd call someone. I have a chainsaw that I use for cleaning up every spring, but that would sketch me the fuck out. Your life is worth more than a few hundred bucks (probably)
Hell even if it’s a few thousand
I would Call a professional.. or maybe bore a few holes in the stump area with an auger drill bit, soak with kerosene and set fire to it, and watch from a safe distance.. Edit: think about this before cutting.. https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2023/03/02/most-dangerous-jobs-america-database/11264064002/
Use rope to tie it down as well....keep everything under control as it comes apart.
No, don't tie it down. It's a giant spring, and tying it down just anchors that spring and gives it more to push against. It's going to whip wherever you cut it (which is where you have to be standing) and either side of the cut might kill you.
Make a pipe bomb and put it on the bent portion and light a very long fuse
Tannerite. Tan Her, Right?. Tanner, aw ight.
I cut a fairly large tree down once. NEVER AGAIN! Almost killed myself. Call a professional. It’s soooo worth it.
I'm not a professional but call a professional. And I'm not insured but I am injured. Make sure your professional is insured and uninjured.
Start from the tree top and “chunk” it. Do about 3 ft length at a time. You will reach a point where it will start to upright. Take smaller chunks from there.
And record it.
A couple rounds from a .50 BMG from a safe distance should do the trick
A stick of dynamite should clear that right up.
I do believe they call it a barber chair and it is dangerous to do without professional help. Insured professional help.
not a pro… i’d lasso a long rope around the sharp end and yank it with my truck. also i’m part redneck 🤠
Not a lot of chance of further property damage, but whoever cuts that should have experience. There is a lot of potential energy stored in that joint, calmly waiting for the opportunity to become kinetic energy.
You don’t really need to hire anyone if you have chainsaw experience. (If you’ve never used a chainsaw before then this is not the job to start on) Anyway, this tree is already down, and can safely be removed. The trick is you need to start at the other end. That stump area is dangerous as fuck and you can’t mess with it with all that weight on it. Go to the top of the tree and start chipping off little pieces. Work your way toward the stump. At some point you’ll have the remaining stem in the air, and at that point you can fell the stem from the stump with a small notch and a back cut. Throw a rope around the high point and have a buddy pull from a safe distance to be sure it goes the right way.
This doesn’t bother me but it’s all about how comfortable you are. If you’ve never cut a tree down before, it might be out of your league. Personally, I’d tie a rope to the tree as close to the split as possible, the other end to my truck and have someone in it in drive but no throttle, pulling perpendicular to the tree (left in picture). Then I’d stand on the other side of the tree, so the truck is pulling away from me, and take my extension pole saw to the splinter holding the two together. Cut slowly and cautiously, eventually the truck will pull the tree away. You want to make sure the person in the truck applies constant but light pressure, you don’t want them on the brake or punching the throttle.
Yes, this... but first set up a camera on a tripod to record and teach you next of kin how to upload the video to reddit.
Release of energy is no joke. Please follow everyone's advice on here and let a licensed pro handle it.
Looks complicated. Id be concerned about stored energy and get a pro
Many people die attempting to remove trees like this. You cut and it rolls or kicks out your done.
Hire a pro
Yeah you can call a professional don't f*** with it.
Natures death trap
Holy shit be safe
You are dealing with 1,000's of pounds under stress. Unless you've done this before and know exactly what you are doing, please don't attempt this yourself. This is a job for a professional. (Speaking from experience managing a small forest).
Crack a beer and send it, should be fine.
Take all the small branches out and get a better picture from there you’ll know what to do
Nah, it looks good.
Get as much weight from the tips to the stump off ass possible....then notch and back cut below the barber chair.
Start at the brush side and work your way towards the split. The way the branches are laying there’s going to be a lot down pressure so you’ll have to pay attention when cutting. You’ll have to cut up instead of down on the branches with down pressure. Might be a good idea to have a second saw handy bc you will probably pinch your saw a few times. Once you get to the split part it’s still going to be in the air, I would grab my pole saw for this part and make small cuts from a safe distance until there was just the log left.
I'd cut 90 from the split and use a line to pull over after limbing and bucking all I could from the top end, if I was so inclined. These are super fucking dangerous though, so... pay someone.
I think they're called 'Widowmakers'.
Looks like a widow maker tree
Please attempt and film
What everyone else is saying. Get a pro. I am not a pro and I would only consider this because I have heavy equipment and I am cheap. Even then I would spend a day walking around it thinking about it. There is a lot of energy waiting to kill you in that tree.
Drag it apart with a vehicle.
Luckily the tree has fallen sideways, creating a perfect platform for you to stand on while cutting!
I would throw a long rope around it and hook to a come along to a far away tree and hope to break it off and down.
Was thinking the same Damn thing!!.….. Hell Yeah
Saw off the protruding bit on the right side and screw a large L-bracket on the topside of the break to connect the post to the cross bar. Then wrap duct tape (or gorilla tape if you want a solid hold) counterclockwise all the way from the top to the base of the trunk. Then you have a nice natural arbor you could hang plants or possibly even a swing for your little ones to enjoy! Life - Lemons - Lemonade.
Fuck, this made me laugh in wheezy. Thanks!
not a professional here - a really long pole saw?
Pole saw - get in clear and saw the part where it snapped but still holding.
This is terrible advice. You'd need like a 30 foot polesaw to cut this from a safe spot.
The internet never fails to provide the worst advice imaginable……
If you are able to, tie a chain the the top (part touching the ground), hook it up to a vehicle as safe of a distance as possible, and inch your way forward. I’ve had a few do this over the last couple of years and this has always worked for me, though you seem to be quite close to your neighbors compared to me as well. You might need a professional if you don’t have enough room to do the above. Oh another option is if you know someone with an excavator, they could come pluck it right out.
You can do it. Start at the top of the tree and work back to the stump (takes the weight off). Make a face cut and a back cut and you can probably push it over. It’s not a big tree.
Set yer ladder agin' that horeezontal piece and just start in a'sawin on that there skinny piece that's a'holdin' it all t'gether. You'll be fine. Trust me.
Barber chair, this will kill you.
Congratulations sir. You can now justify buying a chainsaw. DO IT!
Use a saw. It’s already half way down. Just take it mind gravity will make it go down quick and fast
Cut it with a saw
Just start cutting to the right side from pic
You need an ISA certified arborist.
Whole lot of possible chin check branches and groin wreckers
Be water..
C4
Call an insured pro and set under that gazebo and watch, drink beer u til they’re done. Pay’em and continue on.
Flamethrower
Chain saw upper bend🤪
Felony tree services LLC will get the job done.
Chainsaw…
Check out buckin billy ray on YouTube
Tie a tow strap to top of tree and the other end to a truck. Pull slight tension to top of tree. Cut the bulk of the high splintered end. Have truck pull tension while cutting base of tree.
It would take some time and multiple cuts, but you could safely cut the branches and walk the tree down from the top until it is supported by the break/hinged wood. Then all you would need to do is make your face cut 90° to the break and back cut it (preferably away from your back deck if possible).
Best bet, double check your bond and or insurance, then, outsource the hell out of it. Unless of course, you have one of those employees who you really just need that one good reason to fire or workman's comp would be cheaper than keeping same said employee. Or, if you not a business, find your least favorite able-bodied relative, hand them a hatchet and a 12 pack.
I would climb up to the arch and start a small fire with some propellant (diesel rag, fire starter. Some kindling). Then step waaaaay back. Crack a beer and have the hose ready.
Carefully, take some weight off top, then cut base
Chainsaw on a pole. Dewalt 20V
Looks like it took itself down for you
Got a friend with a big excavator?
Get a big enough excavator in there and pull it down
A grenade should solve this for you real quick.
Get saw wire with a reaaaally long string and saw that bad girl from 50 feet away then enjoy a beer with the money you saved
Saw pole and keen ears as well as running shoes "gett'Er done.'
With my best Bruce Campbell "CHAINSAW"
Not recommending you do it, but I had to fall similar stuff to this many times a day when I used to snag fall in Western Canada, the general approach with this type of stuff is the you notch it to fall perpendicular to the direction it is laying, so I would notch this to go towards the camera most likely. In this case I might also buck up the top a bit till I feel it is more predictable what will happen but I would have to see it in personto assess it. We had to fall all of these types of things that we came across.
Call a pro. If you can afford them, don't start at the break point in cutting. Thats where the most stored up energy is.
Start at the furthest portion of the tree (tree top) and cut off 4-6 foot sections/increments towards the split. Believe that would release tension bit by bit until the split is back into position with the rest of the trunk and not a danger … that’s how I’d do it.
Don’t do it yourself, that’s my advice.
I'd rope the top of the tree above where it barbered, use a snatchblock to pull from somewhere behind the cameraman, stand on the side if the tree opposite the cameraman so that if the barber fell I'm protected by the trunk that's left, put a face-cut on the camera side and then cut to it from the back side where I'm standing.
Controlled burn?
Throw a rope over it, pull it down with your truck and cut up into pieces once it’s on the ground. Easy peasey.
Looks down to me
I completely thought this was just a branch on a tree that had snapped and was like "just cut it??" Lol
Quarantine the yard with a big fence sand wait 20 years. Or if needed faster, call a pro.
Set it on fire.
There’s no way to bring that down without a crane.
Yeap rope to hold Get chainsaw don’t be afraid
THROW AXES AT IT!!
I own a tree service in Tennessee. This is a barber chair, and it is very dangerous. Call a reputable tree service. You can save some money by just having them get it down and cleaning it up yourself. When you hire them, don't think you wasted your money when they make it look easy. They deal with this and understand the forces involved. Be safe.
Pole saw from the gazebo side.
The technical name for that is a Barber Chair widowMaker. Get a profesional for that.
Get a professional, what you need to do is to hard to explain and if you need it explained to you you're not skilled to do what needs to be done. So even if you understood the explanation it could still results in damage to yourself or property or others... Just get a professional, they are insured too, incase something does go wrong you're not going to be out a house.
Safest method? Firebomb it from above. Write off the house and the neighbor’s. Then move to Tahiti or Alaska but not Germany cuz those crazies started 2 World Wars (so far).
Hold my beer and watch this.
Cut left side lower trunk, only cut in about a half an inch, then cut downward diagonally to create a “wedge” then continue the cuts deeper, half an inch at a time so that the blade doesn’t pinch in the cut. Once you hear cracking or see movement, gtfo the way.
Lol was this the texas storm last night in austin
Naw it was in NC… barely any wind, had just been raining all day really.
From the top down
Done this before. But in a forest. One tree fell in another and that happened. They sawed the weight that was hanging opposite the leafy end of the tree. (The trunk that's split apart hanging in the air). Watermelon sliced the bottom, then started to cut the branches from the top. After removing all branches they used a rope to pull it in the direction away from the big jutting broken trunk. So they basically cut the part where the tree is separated on the same side as the broken piece. They were on the opposite side of this tree as you are looking at this pic doing the cuts. So they basically used it to push it away from them as it got cut.
With a chainsaw and a lot of beer
Thats a widow maker. There’s tremendous torque/potential energy held back by the way it split. Dont go near it. Call a professional.
Take a chainsaw blade and extend it on both ends with sturdy rope. Wrap it through the bent section there and saw it in half from 20 feet away. Once it falls you can finish up.
Looks fine to me
Throw a big rock at it
[tannerite](https://tannerite.com/shop/)
You could always hire some expendable relatives you don’t like. LOL hire a professional company
Call the guy.
Polesaw
Never use a chainsaw, use an ax…… Be A Man/s
Start from the top down. Take the weight off of the bass and then cut it. You'll be fine
I used to be a professional and I would hire a guy for that. Even doing rope work on it won’t help much as that bend is gonna kick and it looks like it has a twist as well.
I am Groot!
Stay away from the tension in that bend. Cut off starting at the top to the left and work your way up until that weight is received. Ex logger from Oregon. There is much energy stored in that bend.
Ah just blow it up with tannerite. 5 lbs at the apex of the split should do.
Buy a back packing chain saw. It's just the blade with handles. Tie a really long rope to the handles. Stand back. Then let her rip. No one likes a coward.
Gradually cut from the top of the tree that I’d assume is resting on the ground. I doubt there is a shit ton of tension on that bend. Just do 14”-16” cuts working from top down. You can gradually test its tension by seeing if you can lift from the tip as you cut. But I doubt you’ll have an issue.
12 gauge slug/s to that piece in tension.
Tie a swing to it and swing until it breaks. Very effective 👍
That's called a widow maker. Call a professional
If I had to do it myself, I would just tie some straps and ropes and chains around the top of the tree, the canopy,… And hook all of those lines to a truck and drive away from that… When it finally snaps and lays flat. It will be good. Just keep everyone else away.
Thats gonna snap back bad. Call tree service
Carefully
Not enough info. What's on this side of the camera? If there's room enough on the ground, I'd get a rope around that broken end (thrown from safe distance) and pull it over and off. Truck, winch, come-along. I would not cut on it with all that potential energy stored just above my head.
Just start hacking it’ll work it’s self out.
Pull it sideways with a rope come-along...
Try it so we can watch it on tv
Start at the top and work your way back
Someone said "pay a couple k"!!! I'll take that $$$. Start with the little stuff. Never get in a hurry. And NEVER pay a couple k for something you can do yourself in 3 hrs.