I'm at my mother in laws place in Winnipeg and she has a tree in her front yard that needs to be removed. Quotes have ranged from $300-$1200 so I'm thinking of tackling it myself but have no experience with this at all.
It's about 30 feet high and I'm wondering what I would need to consider if doing this myself?
Is it as simple as a ladder and chainsaw, starting from the top and cutting sections off? What else do I need to know before committing to do this, or is this something that should be left to the pros?
Get a rope and tie one end onto the motorcycle and the other around a limb of the tree. get your mother to use the motorcycle to create some tension on that limb in the direction you want it to fall. Chainsaw. repeat.
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I've done something similar, the problem will be the roots, cutting the tree down is easy. Dealing with the stump and root system will be the major hassle especially with the tree so close to the foundations.
Expect those roots to go out at least 3 meters from the base of the tree. I helped remove a spruce much higher than that, and the root system was a complete spiderweb of shat underneath. We started with good intentions then decided to just remove the stump and a 2 meter radius from the stump of soil and root excavation and then filled it in.
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I wouldn't be using a chainsaw on a ladder either, but that's just me.
I imagine for that tree, you could just use a ladder and tie a couple ropes each branch of the trunk to control the way it falls (ie not into the house) and cut each section off at the base.
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Also make sure proper precautions are made if any of the tree falls on the street. You don't want to get fined. My parents removed two giant poplar trees from their yard when I was a kid and just about got fined from the city for the lack of precautions they made when it came to the road.
Basically you'll just want to set up cones and or signage if you can (and if needed).
Came for the "kill it with fire" pic, left disappointed.
x2.......so i guess we recommend kill it with fire.
if the tree in question is the one that is the reddish/maroon color - it would seem to make sense to cut away those lower branches first and make the tree easier and smaller to work with - but what do I know, as the only tree I cut down was about 4 feet tall and I used my sawz-all.
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Go ahead and cut that f'r down. Looks like most of the limbs will land in a safe area, and the ones that might fall towards the house are easily maneuvered by either putting a rope in the tree and having a guy pull pressure on it in the direction you want it to fall, or else a guy pushing on it by hand. If you're going to push it, well, shins and chainsaws are a bad mix, so be careful.
Only thing here that I don't think you're really considering is the disposal. You'll be surprised how much brush there is from all those branches. Have fun bucking it up and taking it to the dump. You're probably better off with the $300 guy, as long as that includes hauling the waste.
If someone else will do it for three hundred bucks I'd spend another forty on a nice lawn chair, thirty on a case of beer and your afternoon is pretty much planned.
Tree removal help. DIY style.
