how to cut down a tree

[low_delta]

First you climb up and tie a rope to it.


Cut a notch in the base.




Tie the rope around another tree.




Cut through.


Keep pressure on the rope (pull sideways) to help guide the falling tree in the direction you want it to go.


Stay out of the way when it falls.


Cut all the little branches off, so they can be gathered and hauled away.


Cut the big limbs into sections.


Cut the trunk into sections. He cut down as far as he could, then rolled the log over and cut the rest of the way.


Haul and stack it all.


Take a photo.

Now I have to split it all.

My neighbor had to remove some dying ash trees. He got his uncle to bring them down. I helped gather and haul.

Comments

[daphnep.livejournal.com]

Whoah, cool! It seems so neat and efficient, reduced to a photo series. There was a messy, dead, sprawling tree...then it folds down into a neat stack of wood.

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it looks so simple. It even looked simple when the guy did it. But he'd been doing it for decades. You get pretty efficient at something when you do it that long. It took us six hours to do three trees, including stacking the pieces and hauling off the brush.