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My arborist buddy, Chad, had alerted me that he had a job coming up right down the road, and needed me to be there to haul away the logs.  It wasn't a real big tree, a pine about 18" dbh and 70 or 80 feet tall, but it was tucked in behind a house with nowhere to drop it.  It leaned slightly toward the house, so climbing it and chunking it down would have been a long, laborious process.  So, they hired a crane to come in and lend a hand.  They sent a man up in a basket to attach a cable to the tree, first, then Chad went up in his bucket to make the first cut.

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Once that cut was made, the crane operator "flew" more than half the tree up and over the house.

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It was a struggle to get the treetop into a position where he could let it down.  There was no place to lay it down, so he set it in the driveway and held it upright...

(https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10074/apine03.jpg)

...while Chad brought his bucket truck around.  He held it there until Chad had completely limbed it out, then laid it on the ground between some small trees.

(https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10074/apine04.jpg)


After that, they removed the butt log the same way, and loaded it directly onto my trailer, then loaded the 2 16-footers from the top log.  I had a grand time watching all of this, and came away with a trailer load of nice fresh pine logs. ;D

Way to go DanG ! That would be fun to watch all that for sure . I just did  ;D
Good action pictures  8)

Thanks for the pictures, DanG. 8)

sure is nice to have the right equipment