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<blockquote data-quote="SoonerP226" data-source="post: 4065933" data-attributes="member: 26737"><p>I had a red oak hanging over my deck that died maybe 10 years ago. (It was easy to tell--it was the only one that still had its leaves in the middle of winter.) It might've been 16" in diameter about 4' above ground, but was easily as tall as Larry's white oak, it just didn't have the spread due to all the other big trees around it.</p><p></p><p>A friend of my dad's owns a lawn care service, so he came out and took a look at it. He said he had a couple of Mexicans that he called in to do tree service for his clients, and he'd ask them to come take care of it.</p><p></p><p>Unfortunately, this was around the time of some big illegal immigration crackdown (maybe that law the legislature passed to make it harder to hire illegals?). I don't know if they were illegals or if they just thought the law was going to make the state too hostile of an environment for them, but either way, they boogied on down the road, so my dad and I went with plan B: a long steel cable with a length of chain attached to one end and his little Komatsu dozer.</p><p></p><p>We got the chain around the tree as high as we could get it, then ran the cable up the hill to the dozer, and started pulling on the tree. I figured, being dead, that it would probably break, but all it did was shake out some dead branches (which scared my dog, which, in turn, gave me the bright idea of getting her out of harm's way and into her crate in the living room--which turned out to be a good idea, as one of the branches that fell later was heavy enough to break the steel cable of her aerial run that traversed the deck <img src="/images/smilies/bolt.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":bolt:" title="Bolt :bolt:" data-shortname=":bolt:" /> ).</p><p></p><p> Anyhow, that dozer pulled hard, but, even dead, that tree was hell for stout, and the best the dozer could do was pull the top of the tree so that it was no longer hanging over the deck, and was hanging slightly in the opposite direction. We ended up using the dozer to pull it away from the house while I used a chainsaw to cut it, making sure I could run like hell if it decided to kick back when it fell...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SoonerP226, post: 4065933, member: 26737"] I had a red oak hanging over my deck that died maybe 10 years ago. (It was easy to tell--it was the only one that still had its leaves in the middle of winter.) It might've been 16" in diameter about 4' above ground, but was easily as tall as Larry's white oak, it just didn't have the spread due to all the other big trees around it. A friend of my dad's owns a lawn care service, so he came out and took a look at it. He said he had a couple of Mexicans that he called in to do tree service for his clients, and he'd ask them to come take care of it. Unfortunately, this was around the time of some big illegal immigration crackdown (maybe that law the legislature passed to make it harder to hire illegals?). I don't know if they were illegals or if they just thought the law was going to make the state too hostile of an environment for them, but either way, they boogied on down the road, so my dad and I went with plan B: a long steel cable with a length of chain attached to one end and his little Komatsu dozer. We got the chain around the tree as high as we could get it, then ran the cable up the hill to the dozer, and started pulling on the tree. I figured, being dead, that it would probably break, but all it did was shake out some dead branches (which scared my dog, which, in turn, gave me the bright idea of getting her out of harm's way and into her crate in the living room--which turned out to be a good idea, as one of the branches that fell later was heavy enough to break the steel cable of her aerial run that traversed the deck :bolt: ). Anyhow, that dozer pulled hard, but, even dead, that tree was hell for stout, and the best the dozer could do was pull the top of the tree so that it was no longer hanging over the deck, and was hanging slightly in the opposite direction. We ended up using the dozer to pull it away from the house while I used a chainsaw to cut it, making sure I could run like hell if it decided to kick back when it fell... [/QUOTE]
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