• rumba@lemmy.zip
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    3 days ago

    I have helped remove a tree before, it wasn’t over a house or in a dangerous place. We sawed the limbs top down. fell the trunk, cut it into firewood sized rounds, split it. and dug out the stump by hand.

    It was a 15’ tall tree.

    5 unskilled labor, 20+ hours.

    If we had the right tools, it might have been a couple-hour job for that tiny tree.

    It’s definitely a job worth paying someone with the right equipment to do.

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      3 days ago

      Right equipment makes it infinitely easier and safer, but even a 10 foot tree could easily be lethal or life ruining if the people working it don’t know what they’re doing or aren’t paying attention. Felling or even trimming trees is extremely dangerous

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        3 days ago

        feh, we don’t even need the tree to be dangerous, a bunch of 20/30 somethings running a chainsaw

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          3 days ago

          Fuck brah, the first tree I felled was a 35’ poplar that was way too close to the fence. I used a corded Sawzall with a 9" wood blade. Managed to cut it completely through and it just stayed there wobbling. Had to push it over and run once it started falling. Neighbour was just watching and chewing Tylenols right from the bottle.