My god! Tree-taker-downers have an incredibly dangerous job!

[Arugula Latte]

I'm having a big-ass fir tree taken down 'cuz it's on the waterline. Jesus! These guys who climb up to the top (60 or 70 ft. up) with their chainsaws, hacking away at branches, letting HUGE honkin' chunks of trunk fall w a CRASH! --I wish they'd done the lower-by-rope method :grr: -- They are living DANGEROUSLY. The guy who cut off the top -- my god -- that tree SWAYED too and fro with him hanging on. There are logs falling from the sky and sawdust flying everywhere. I don't know how they do it.

[Rabrrrrrr]

1. I sure as hell wouldn't do it

They impress the living hell out of me.

Also the dudes in Hawaii who climb the palm trees around sidewalks and in parks, and lop all the coconuts off so they don't later fall on people - that's some scary ass job, too.

At least if the pine tree guy falls, he has branches to help his fall. If the palm tree guy falls, it's just empty air until ground.

And let's add in the insane who climb up bridge wiresto fix things, or to paint. They impress the shit out of me, too.

[underpants]

2. They climb them? No cherry picker truck?

Maybe that is for the tourists or something :shrug:

[Rabrrrrrr]

5. No, it's hella faster - they can just run up the tree, lop the things off,

run down, move to the next one...

It would take forever in a cherry picker.

[Arugula Latte]

3. Well, actually, the way they did it with this tree

and I think it's a common method -- they climb to the top, sawing branches off on the way up. So they're at the top of this very high "pole" and cut a chunk off, move down, cut a chunk off, move down, etc.

[Rabrrrrrr]

8. Holy Cow! I hadn't realized that.

I've only seen them go up and take part of the top off, and then come down and they take the rest of the tree down.

Yeah, that's even more insane to be lopping on the way up.

But you might be in much tighter space than the ones I've seen, in which case it makes sense to drop as much of everything as verticaly as possible.

[Meatwad]

4. I'd do it.

Except I couldn't force myself to cut down trees because I love them too much.

I'm such a treehugger.

[Arugula Latte]

6. I know. I feel bad.

However, we don't want the roots to mess up our direct waterline into the house, so ...

Luckily our yard has tons of trees, and, this being Oregon, they grow like weeds, so to speak.

[Meatwad]

9. In that case,

I can understand.

[Coventina]

7. Agreed Meatwad. It's way more dangerous for the trees

Than the tree cutters.