Unfortunately this tree has gotten to the point of damaging the house. My goal is to safely take it down myself. I have done some felling, and some climbing/trimming before.
My play is to ascend, chunk back the bigger branches until all thats left is the main trunk, then cut a wedge away from the houseand cut nearly vertically down the backside of the trunk to intersect the wedge. Hopefully preventing the trunk from damaging the house as it comes down. The species i believe is Coast live oak in santa criz California.
If anyone can recommend a saw with the right kind of power, currently all I have is a ms 271 farm boss.
by Acrobatic-Weight-710
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Do you have experience climbing? Looks like you can just fell it whole, which I would highly suggest if you don’t have climbing experience. 271 would be sufficient. I’d imagine you could hire someone to do it for the cost of a significantly bigger saw.
Sorry for the duplicate posts, I was outside with bad service.
What makes you so confident you have the skills to do this? Production climbing is a different animal than rec climbing. Your plan for the felling is shit.
Fell it and eat the cost of a new fence
I’d finish it off with a horizontal plunge cut instead of a vertical cut towards the wedge, but other than that you have a pretty good plan
I’m not a professional. I’ve felled a lot of trees, but never this close to a structure. I would go professional for liability reasons.
Personally, I would have had it professionally removed the second I aquired the property, but I also live in Kansas, where tree roots are strong and houses have basements. I spend roughly 20 hours per year digging out saplings and trimming back root suckers to avoid this exact scenario. A $5k tree job is much cheaper than a $35k foundation repair.
Haha please give us an update on how well this goes. I’m sure it will be entertaining
Dude, no one here is going to tell you how to remove a tree. That’s insane. If a tree like this is in your capabilities, you’d know how to handle it.
That is a broadleaf tree with a very substantial lean and restricted work positioning and escape route. It is a very good candidate to barber chair catastrophically.
Experienced professional climbers get killed by situations like this.
Hire a company. If you want to save money, pay someone to put it on the ground, no clean up.
“Hey I wanna remove this tree without damaging the house: I’m gonna climb it so what kinda saw do I need?” Fucking wild.
Fix the house. It’s in the tree’s way.
Have you considered cutting out a space inside your house to let the tree keep on keeping on? You would lose a few square feet sure, but you’d still have the tree. It’s a lot easier to make up a few feet than it is to regrow your tree