You hire a professional company for their expertise and their liability insurance policy.. You make a mistake it will cost you considerably more than $1700.. FWIW

Half way through I thought that guy's insane. Then I remembered the opening shot showed the tractor perpindicular to the rigging. He really should have called out that detail. By the time the tension is built up (and there's any real chance of a rope breaking sending a pully flying) he'd be well out of the way. By pulling perpendicular to the 5x rigging, the pully isn't going to fly towards him. But if someone tries to copy him and their vehicle travel is inline with the pulleys that would be very dangerous. The ropes themselves aren't a problem, but those pulleys would be could have a lot of energy flying through the air.

Sounds good to me just make sure they are insured

I watched the video- and think he could have got away with a lot less rigging had he hooked it up higher. And I bet there are still front roots hold even though it is toppled.

Like said if it’s close to a structure start trimming, if it’s got weight going in all directions start trimming then pull it in the direction you want it to go wear a helmet or you might see stars if you get hit with a small branch.

With the sound of the ropes and pulleys straining in that video , I was cringing the whole time. Guy knows what he is doing but I would be even further back. Scary stuff , especially for a non-trained person.

Sounds like my very valuable walnut!

Yep he has insurance. I could do it it wouldn't be an issue but to do it I need to be up on a ladder about 25 feet to get the job done. I just don't want to short myself on the years I have left.

Our locals make firewood to sell!!!!!

My employees make around $30 a hour, with payroll taxes, work comp, etc I use $50 a hour per employee as my cost. Now have two guys making firewood, $100 a hour total plus equipment. How much profit do you think there is in a cord of wood after that?

Most mills I know of wouldnt take a yard tree/log if you gave it to them.

^^^^^ I can get a guy in with his machine and cut and spit 20 cords for 1g,,,, lots of money left…

I had two huge soft maples. Stumps every bit of four feet across. Limbs, big ones, hanging over the roof. Were there when I bought the place 3 years ago. Its across the street from where I live. Few years ago a limb came down and was up against the front door. Old man in poor health lived there. Me and another guy cut and hauled it off. My insurance deductible is 5g. Thats what I paid to have them removed. I rented a stump grinder and finished it. The equipment they had to use could not have been cheap. Was worth every penny.

Snowy, I’ll do it for lifetime turkey hunting privileges on your land

Way off base there. Like not even close. I make logs for sawmills and export yards. But I’ve climbed and pieced down my fair share, and I can tell you it takes skills and knowledge that cost money. And if I’m removing a tree that way, it’s because it won’t fit anywhere in big enough pieces to sell to a mill, they don’t want firewood chunks.

It's clear who has experience and who doesn't. Yes I may make $450. an hour on the job time but

Figure time giving estimate, equipment cost and upkeep, paying help, insurance, taxes, time dealing with the stuff you hall off sight. It's sounds expensive untill you Figure out how much it cost and how much work it is.

Good example is the consumer that wants it droped and left they want to clean up the mess to save money. OK so I drop it. Within 2 weeks they call back wanting it cleaned up for the full removal price I told them. Decided the clean up is more work than they want. BUT my price to come back will be at least 1/3 more.

Why more 1.I have to come back = more time.2 I would have cleaned it up as it came down removing all the brush Before the logs came down. Now the logs are on top the brush making it a royal pain to clean up tripping Over brush stuck under the logs cleaning up the logs first so you can get the brush out from under them.

It's not worth my time selling firewood. Cutting and splitting it them loading and delivering, unloading then driving back home is not a money maker. You give the wood away and discount your labor. Now I will burn it my at home or would sell it if the boys cut and split it if people want to come get a truck load but is still not a money making thing. I


A lot of the post here remind me of people that think the wood is worth a lot of money. Hear is a way everyone should be able to relate to it. It's about like people wanting you to trap their problem animals for free but you can keep the fur for payment.

You can rent stump grinders in several sizes around here. I don't own one BUT would wait tell I had several to grind and then rent whatever size grinder I needed and would spend the day or weekend grinding stumps. Often I made double what I charged to do the stump to clean up the chips, fill the hole with topsoil seed fertalize and straw it.

That's being fed symmetrical logs from a forest, yard trees suck. Just hauled out a semi full of logs, think it was 11 cords and needed to go on a 3 hour round trip with the semi. I got $1800. Haul away logs, cut them to length, hire a log truck to pick them up and drop them off, yep, I'm getting rich off the wood alright.

Seen a lot of firewood businesses come and go the ones that seem to do well are the small bundle sellers at C stores and campgrounds the truck big load guy don’t often stick around long it seems like. That’s a time consuming task moving a lot of weight to keep moving around over and over again.

Snowy, just ask Spike369. Sounds like he’s the guy……
Make sure to video the event as it’ll probably go viral. The tree safety guys that teach courses will use it for the beginning of the course…..lol

A question like this came up a couple months ago.