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Originally Posted by Aerial 
I'm actually far more cautious than it might appear. I refused to climb the second tree until more of my gear came in. It was much smaller in girth (although equally tall) and had woodpeckers living in it.
I was concerned about the structure of it, and being end of Winter here it was hard to tell what was live and what was dead because there were no leaves or buds out yet.
I inspected every inch as I climbed, and in the end made my cuts and decended to the ground to pull it off with a truck. It worked
Aerial ~ here's the tree:  |
You refused to climb the tree until new gear came in? This locust appears healthy. Are you deciding on it's removal? What qualifications do you have to do this? Did you notice the bracket fungus on the trunk (decay inside)?
You continue after dropping a pole into the intersection (someone could have been killed and you blame it on the pole), shut peoples power off (hot wire), get the cops involved. You don't follow ansi stds for treework.
You don't know what you are doing and do not have anyone that does on job to advise yet you tackle a moderately difficult removal anyway. You use E Bay gear. You drop limbs into the street. Don't know how to rig anything. You use equipment not designed for tree work and when this is pointed out by qualified arborists you say you will continue to use it anyway. "Why don't we get out of the woods"?
The neighbors are standing out in the street in bewilderment. Come on this makes all of us look bad. He doesn't live in the backwoods, Pittsburg is a major city and this a pretty residential nborhood.
I know this is a kinder/gentler site than AS, but geeze, it is not the sissy tree site is it?