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Someone in town was going to cut down a dying maple tree for his neighbor that is confined to a wheelchair and I was offered the wood, all I had to do was cut to length, split, and haul away. Turns out the good neighbor was so uncomfortable in the basket that he asked if I'd be willing to go up instead. He already had most of the easy side done, leaning away from the house so we had the more interesting bits to deal with. My son is the other neighbor, on the right side in this photo, and that is his phone wire you see just above the house and I was informed than under no circumstances could we drop a limb on the wire since my son has it tucked under his vinyl siding...
With the house, phone wire, and the red maple below and limited reach with the aerial lift we had to use rope to lower a few. It was pretty tricky getting them down in the limited space available but with the good neighbors son on the roof of the house and a guide rope attached we were able to get most of then down to the ground. The last limb required some trimming of the branches off the stem from the roof of the house while it was dangling from the rope, enter the urban logger with a genuine Milwaukee cordless Sawzall.
I will go back tomorrow and finish cutting it up, splitting, and haul it all home. That is my son Josh's house in the center of the photo, he and my grandson Grady made a few trips to the brush dump; Grady even had a chance to drive the Ranger a bit during unloading and nearly put it in the weeds.
I'm normally a McCulloch man and I will use the SP125 to knock down and cut up the large trunk you see standing above but for the work from the basket today I went another direction. By the way, I did experience the hot no start on the 550 XP today, strange as it was only 85-90 degrees (F) this afternoon....
Mark
With the house, phone wire, and the red maple below and limited reach with the aerial lift we had to use rope to lower a few. It was pretty tricky getting them down in the limited space available but with the good neighbors son on the roof of the house and a guide rope attached we were able to get most of then down to the ground. The last limb required some trimming of the branches off the stem from the roof of the house while it was dangling from the rope, enter the urban logger with a genuine Milwaukee cordless Sawzall.
I will go back tomorrow and finish cutting it up, splitting, and haul it all home. That is my son Josh's house in the center of the photo, he and my grandson Grady made a few trips to the brush dump; Grady even had a chance to drive the Ranger a bit during unloading and nearly put it in the weeds.
I'm normally a McCulloch man and I will use the SP125 to knock down and cut up the large trunk you see standing above but for the work from the basket today I went another direction. By the way, I did experience the hot no start on the 550 XP today, strange as it was only 85-90 degrees (F) this afternoon....
Mark
