Westside Tree Care -- Hard Leaning Cottonwood in Bothel, Wa
486 views · Published 16 October 2015 · 8:31 · Indexed 20 September 2026
Channel: rbtree · 2015 · Education
Another rigging challenge taken on. This one was a doozy! 22-24" cottonwood, with a lean starting at 10-15 degrees, and sweeping out to close to 80 degrees..... too large to lift or support the entire tree and cut it off at the base, even with the GRCS. So we tied it at about 60', ran the rigging into an only slightly leaning cottonwood at about 90 feet, one of several in the clump-- (a 30" had failed at the base some months ago) Tensioned it with the GRCS. Added a side pull line to help it to swing away from Patrick, when he made the rather ballsy cut. Added two trunk ties below and above the cut to prevent a possible barber chair. Then Patrick got to have fun with a nice swing, as he had run his lifeline through a limb fork a good 25 feet out, while had allowed him to have better upward support while making the critical cut. Previously, he had worked out about 12 feet further to cut some limbs on the top that would be cut.
