Hello dere, steemians, and welcome to da page, eh!
Winter is a really slow time for me for activities and projects, so I don't have anything new to show you today. I decided to show you how I trimmed the overhanging branches off a tree that is growing fairly close to the house. Some of these branches were hanging over the roof of the house and the wind would cause them to rub on the roof. That's generally not good for the shingles, so the decision was made to cut those branches off the tree. I did this in April of 2016.
This is how I did the job, although I wouldn't recommend this method to anyone else. This a really good way to get hurt, or worse, if you're not really careful, and even then, sometimes things happen that you don't expect. So, if you choose to do something like this, you do it at your own risk.
I used an electric chainsaw for this job, it's a lot lighter than a gas powered saw, and a lot safer also, because the chain only runs when you want it to, unlike a gas saw that's idling. I put a long ladder up into the tree, and climbed up to the top of it with the saw to start the operation.
In order to get to several of the branches, I had to basically climb up into the tree from the ladder.
After trimming those branches off, we put the other ladder up into the tree further out on the main branch so that I could get to the farther branches.
We moved the taller ladder back over to the wye where the shorter ladder had been, to get higher into the tree. I cut some of the branches off far enough out from the main branches so that I could use the stub to stand on to reach other branches. I had to climb pretty far up that section to get to a couple of branches that were overhanging the roof.
This last bit of cutting was the trickiest part, and the most nerve racking. I had a lot of fear adrenaline going by this time, but I managed to get all the branches that needed cutting without cutting myself or falling out of the tree.
It's a lot safer to cut a branch off in sections rather than just cutting the entire branch off. Branches seldom go where you expect them to when you cut them off in one piece. After I got done cutting the branches off that needed to come off, I trimmed off the stubs of the branches as I climbed down so they wouldn't be sticking out and growing more branches.
All in all, it was a pretty scary job, but I got it done.
Well, that's all I have for this post, I hope you found it interesting!
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Here's the links to a couple of my most recent posts.
https://steemit.com/photography/@amberyooper/the-sundog
https://steemit.com/photography/@amberyooper/pheasants-in-the-winter
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