re: When The Tree Surgeon You Hired is a Quack

Me and my dad have removed several trees around structures. Not once did they ever lean or fall anywhere but where we wanted.


Idiots with a chainsaw

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The face cut looked ok, almost a little too deep. The back cut was absolute garbage and wrong. You NEVER angle cut down like that. Hacker’s move. That is one reason is slid out the way it did. Lucky they didn’t die.

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After reading a little on it I was thinking face cut was too deep. It look nearly half the diameter of tree when it was supposed to be 1/3. Would have put hinge going thru the center, but I don’t know where exactly that 45 degree back cut ended up stopping. With slanted back cut and lean of tree it looks like hinge snapped as bottom slid down along back cut.

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No tension on the rope-major mistake.

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With the size of that tree and it already leaning toward the house. I doubt it would have even made a difference. I've only used ropes on much smaller trees

I'm not a professional but I cut my own firewood for 20 years and always dealt with trees myself. Trees like that I always de-limbed and took the main trunk out in sections. No chance of this stupidity happening.