Your tree can get to the point where you can’t keep it any more and have to say good bye to it. Of course the decision of cutting off your own tree can be really difficult but sometimes you have no other option left. If your tree gets too close to the house, or it gets fatal plague of some pest or gets too much diseased than you have to get rid of such tree either happily or un-happily. Tell your heart that you are doing no good with your hand grown tree if you are allowing it to suffer in such worst conditions.
Planning the removal once you have decided to remove it is very important. I am unable to count that how many windows I have seen broken or cars I have seen crushed just because the concerned guys haven’t planned the removal effectively. One should decide well that in which direction they want tree to fall. Another important thing in planning is the measurement of tree so that one should make sure that it falls clear of any thing else.
Next step after planning is to mount up the tree and fasten two long ropes near the top. Don’t anchor them in the direction in which you want the tree to fall towards but in the opposite direction. This will help you in adjusting the direction in which the tree is going to fall. This Of course can keep tree from leaning in any dangerous direction.
Now its time to start chopping!!!
You are not sensible if you are thinking that you can chop the tree with manually operated axe. A manually operated saw can take your years to cut off a tree, so you better use a chain saw. Quit the plan of cutting tree if you don’t have chain saw and of course you can borrow it from your neighbor or any one easily. You can rent or buy one from home improvement store if no one around has it. But that is MUST!
Take care of your eyes while chopping as any wood chip can easily hit your eye. Use proper eye and face protection for that. One of my friends blinded his right eye while chopping the tree. I hope my readers will learn from this huge mistake. Power tools can be dangerous for your exposed body parts so be sure to protect yourself completely before using them.
Never cut straight lines into the tree.
Always cut side ways “V ” into the tree because it has some special significance. This is because if you cut the straight line, the tree will end up rolling to one side or the other. Cutting the tree in V will help it to fall in same direction you want. The tree can lean few feets in wrong direction while falling because of human imperfections but that’s where those ropes come which you have tied to top of tree. Use your friends and strongly pull the ropes to line it back up with desired path. You can easily complete this whole process is not more than an hour.
Stump of the tree is hardest part to remove. You can make use of your options here; rent out a stump chipper that will entirely wipe out the visible section of the stump. If you do not want to do this then I am afraid you have to spend several hours digging it out. You can make use of your kids here because kids normally don’t feel offensive when they are assigned digging tasks because they do this with their friends all day long. This is my tried and tested method. I asked my kids to do digging and I had the full stump out in under a week. My stump was not more than 1 foot in diameter and if your tree has stump bigger than that then you may have to think for an alternative!!
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