A bit nerve wracking as you might imagine.
The trees ended up being right at 75' (23m) tall and were really close to the house as you can see in the pictures. But a length of chain, some ropes, careful cuts and eight hours of maneuvering resulted in everything being safely cut down and only the bases are left standing.
I'll get those knocked down once we get the debris cleaned up and hauled away.
No sense in making a bigger mess for myself at the moment.
Prior to doing this, I did contact three tree service companies and requested quotes to simply knock the trees down and drive away. All three came in at $2000!
Ridiculous - Screw them!
I rented the lift for $230 and picked up a spool of rope for $90 and did it myself.
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| First branch cut and hanging by some chain. Once in this position I simply went back up the lift and cut chunks from the bottom of the hanging piece up to the chain before tying off again and pulling down the next section below the chain |
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| View from the basket |
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| Shop view from the lift. In this photo you can see the left over stump after cutting free the hanging mess from the previous photo. |
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| Tree bases left up for now while we clear the debris |
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