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Three more ash trees down this morning. It's starting to look different around here. Still have the one that started the thread, but I'm cleaning up the little ones around it!

If there's NOTHING I can damage if it falls the wrong way I'll forgo the safety rope. Any other time, with ANY chance of hitting something I don't want hit, I'll throw a rope into it. If I'm by myself I'll pre-tension and lock the rope off. If I have help I'll have them pull tension. Most of the...

I ended up getting 200' of New England Sta-Set through tree stuff. They had a 16% off sale on it. I haven't pulled any of the the leaners yet, but I got a chance to tie it high in a small ash and elm today. I'm pretty sure the ash would have gone where I wanted it to without the rope, but the...

What I'm looking at currently is the Samson Stable Braid 1/2" bull rope. Any opinions on it? It looks like a low stretch double braid with a working load of 2100# and an average breaking strength of 10,400#. It's supposed to have good abrasion resistance. Would you use it with a natural crotch...

In a situation like this where you're pulling with MA and using ROPE, is 1/2" rigging rope with a 9-10,000 breaking strength adequate? I understand that each situation is different, but would you consider a 1/2" rope if you came across the situation? I'm going to invest in a rigging rope for my...

Thanks for the info. I'll be careful and start small. I understand that there's a bunch of stored energy and weight involved. I don't take it lightly. (Pun fully intended)

Gotcha. Thanks for the help. I'll let you know how it goes. Unless it goes bad. Then I'll just act like I never got around to doing it...

"]http://[/URL] Is this how you'd do it with the top laying in another tree, or reverse it?

Understood Joel, I appreciate the pictures! Now, with these leaning I would imagine that if I were to cut my notch and back cut like normal, when I start making my back cut it seems to me that the top being caught will make the back cut pinch the bar, correct? I would imagine that the tree would...

Thanks for the warning Cando. I'm familiar with the tire or jacket or canvas tarp to catch or slow the cable when potential energy becomes kinetic. I used to have a picture of a jeep with the winch cable going through the windshield, through the headrest, and out through the back soft top...

Ok. I think I'll be plenty far away, so I don't think I'll be close enough to hit the truck, with the long cable plus the length of the rigging rope. What exactly do you mean by Block Purchase? Do you mean strap the block to the dead leaner and use the 2:1 MA pulling the block towards the winch...

Hi all. The title should be dead "LEANERS" Welcome to episode two of "Homeowners How To". I've got several trees out at my parents place that are dead and leaning into other live trees. They're in the woods so I'm not worried about them hitting anything when they come down, but they're hanging...