hey Jonathan here this is today's tree it's a tiny little oak but completely
dead it's been dead for a couple years of Bark's falling off of it leaves
drastically towards the house and with it's so dead it's hard to control it
with a hinge cut so I don't want to just fall it because there's really the wood
so brittle that limbs actually touching the eave and I'm afraid if that limb
even broke and a whole tree would go through those big painting wind data
there so we don't want to do today is tie it off to the tree up above and I
want to do all of that without having to climb it so stay tuned and I'll show you how to tie
the top of the tree off it's only a big shot and a rope and control the the
falling cuts all right
so here we are with the Big Shot I shot it up through that crotch and the oak
above it with the throw line and then now my ground man is pulling the rope
through that crotch way up above and then he's going to tie that end off so
we don't lose it and then on the other end I'm going to throw it up over the
dead tree I have right here and then how I'm going to tie it off here it is I'm
gonna take the second end and tie a running bowline it is the splice end I'm
just going to run the splice through so there's my running bowline I'm going to
Snug it up so this end goes over the dead tree I have a big loop on the
ground and then once I have it all snugged up here then I'm going to Snug
up that loop on the ground so it goes straight from the top of the dead tree
straight up to the live tree above it and through that cross and then back
down to a wrap on another tree so there's a loop on the ground that's
where I had the other end tied off and now I'm just pulling it up so this is a
great way to tie into the top of a tree without actually having to climb it you
do need a throw line obviously to pull your ropes up and again the reason I'm
doing this is the tree is so dead and brittle you see the bark coming off
right there that I'm afraid to do anything with it
so it doesn't just break off and go through those big pain windows on the
house so now I have it roped off pretty well and what I'm going to do now is put
a tag line in the top of it so that black and white rope I just threw that
out it's just a pull line then my ground means on the ground on the lowering rope
the lowering rope goes pretty high up above the tree and then it's tied off to
the top of the tree you can see it on the left side of the
screen there so my ground man is both holding that with the full wrap on it
and also trying to film right here I'm just cutting all the bark off just so I
could see what I have see how rotten the actual trunk is soon as I told him I do
this job I was anxious to get it done because I was afraid a little bit of
wind this tree would have just blown right into that top paying window so
there I am cutting my face cut right there my tagline is just hanging down
there you can barely see it when I cut my face first the lowering rope is tied
off with the full wrap not tied off it has a full wrap on that look right there
on the left side screen I'm starting to come through the back and listening for
it the problem with dead oak like this it
just doesn't hinge at all it'll just move a little bit and then break right
off so you can see I'm trying to pull it and I need to cut this to hear more it
so I'm just cutting just a teeny bit more leaving a little bit of a hinge but
you can't really do these cuts and just pull them and break them with such back
lean weight towards the house and that's why I'm tied off at the top of the tree
so here I am on the tag line I'm just pulling a little bit here and I'm
pulling against the lowering rope a little bit so you can see I'm pulling it
now the lowering rope has the weight of the tree it's hard to tell but it's
actually pivoting down to parallel with the slope and then now the lowering rope
has the whole weight of the tree you can see now go straight vertically down from
the crotch and lowering from and my tag rope is just trying to keep that tree
Square to the parallel to the ground to the contour it will fall off the stuff
right here and then there it is nice and controlled so
probably an easier way to do it but I don't want to make any mistakes those
big pain windows would have been a disaster if I hid them so this is kind
of a cool technique I devised if you liked it please hit like if you have any
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