Yeah, I asked him about that, and he said he made some last minute adjustments to lay it down where he did because he was worried it would have hit another tree closer to the house. So he dropped it in our defunct pond which my wife wanted to fill in anyway lol.
What was the point of climbing up the tree, he could have cut it at ground level. Plus he should have put a rope around the top end to get the tree falling in the right direction.
It’s a hemlock, and we get humming birds in the area, and they LOVE dead hemlock snags. I asked him to take it down above ground to keep the birdies coming. Hemlocks are also known for failing randomly once they start to rot, so he was not going to climb higher to place a rope. Hemlocks are the number one cause of arborist deaths, apparently, so even climbing up that high was more of a favor than anything else.
lol mouth cut was facing south, tree fell facing east. 🤣🤣🤣🤣👌
Down safe most definitely not the planned direction!
Yeah, I asked him about that, and he said he made some last minute adjustments to lay it down where he did because he was worried it would have hit another tree closer to the house. So he dropped it in our defunct pond which my wife wanted to fill in anyway lol.
What was the point of climbing up the tree, he could have cut it at ground level. Plus he should have put a rope around the top end to get the tree falling in the right direction.
It’s a hemlock, and we get humming birds in the area, and they LOVE dead hemlock snags. I asked him to take it down above ground to keep the birdies coming.
Hemlocks are also known for failing randomly once they start to rot, so he was not going to climb higher to place a rope.
Hemlocks are the number one cause of arborist deaths, apparently, so even climbing up that high was more of a favor than anything else.
@bennomatic Thank you for your reply, knowledge is power. Lol