Why take down a tree?

1. The tree is dead.

2. Alive, but hazardous to home or property or people.

   • Uprooted, leaning over/ toward house or car, unstable, storm damaged, etc.

   • Dying by disease, insect infestation, or drought damaged.

3. Land clearing at either residential or commercial building sites. This is the removal of multiple tagged trees in a particular area for a number of reasons: Home building or residential additions, office, parking lot development, a lawn installation, etc.

Q: How do we take down the tree?

There are different ways to do take trees down, and it depends on the tree size, shape, reach, location and health status.

1. Notch and drop. Making a well-planned cut at the base particularly chosen to direct the manner, speed, and direction the tree will fall.

2. Climbing method, or the rope and saddle method, rope rigging. The experienced climber lifts himself into the tree, by throwing a climbing rope into the tree and raising himself up into it, secured by a series of special safety climbing knots and ropes. Branches are tied to a rope and then cut carefully.

3. Sometimes we have to use a CRANE. It is able to lift heavy logs, trunks, branches, and many other things over structures that are too close to the tree to ensure a safe standard take-down method. A crane can hold and carry the limbs and trunk a distance, say from the backyard, passing over the pool, and over the roof of your house, past the front yard and to the curb. The crane is useful in several different kinds of circumstances:

   • When trees are in precarious, enclosed, oddly angled or otherwise difficult locations.

   • Trees that are difficult to reach, to get to with equipment are crane-ready.

   • Trees that are leaning over a house pool, car, or entangled in electric wires, severely dead or badly decayed are crane ready to be sure.