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Carl!!! You are merciless!!! But, usually right...yep, it was my 650...and it is 3:1. I drank a LOT of Bosnian coffee once we cleaned up...me and the 3 Bosnos at the picnic table under the back porch...and ate 2 of their high-test white-gas deserts they always seem to offer...all that before...

Lorda mercy, I sure did manage to get some of you boys all het up :lol: OK, so I DID cut it already...today after work. I used a throw line to pull a rope into each lead and shake the boogers out of them...shook the dead wood out and verified the leads were still sound. I spurred up to the...

Nah, 9/16" Samson Stable Braid...I don't expect it to break, for sure...Average Breaking Strength 13,300lbs, WS is 2,700 lbs...the pull needs to be steady and slow, not fast and jerky. I suppose it is possible there could be an internal rupture of a rope that would not be visible or might be...

That's what gets my attention...if the tensioning system fails/slips/whatever there is a tree ready to use gravity and whatever force vectors get added to the mix when the tensioning system slips/fails. Big oooppppsss. A wedge could possibly help a little.

I've started making it a habit to use a wedge whenever I can...several of Burnham's comments in the past got my attention...if it's good enough for Burnham it is certainly good enough for me.

Yeah, but ain't the drama grand??? It IS interesting to get different takes on it.

I'll use my Dodge Ram, slow steady pull...should be good.

Thanks, Brian, that is the other thing I wondered about....seems the easiest, for sure. Re: widow makers, I'll try to shake those leads first to give the loosey-goosey wood a chance to go ahead and fall before I start vibrating the wood with my saw. 10-4 on not worrying about the hydrant...

I have this tree waiting for me to do soon. At first I was told it has been dead for a year...then I spoke to the owner's son and he said 2004 was the last time it had leaves...so it is about 4 years dead. Trunk sounds solid, bark is still attached but you can see that a lot of deadwood has...