Can I cut down a tree with my mind?

[Piotrsko]

Department of agriculture used to have a phamphlet on felling trees for idiots. Everything one would want to know including a twisting fell.

Ummm here in Reno, the price for a company to remove the tree is around 2 1/2 grand including stump "reduction" and the wait in line is almost a month if the weather stays good.

Vinegar on mold? Really? That's comical.

[oil pan 4]

I would put copper sulfate on mold.

[Xist]

Originally Posted by Piotrsko

Vinegar on mold?

No, vinegar and baking soda, so saltwater.

This is completely unrelated to anything, but who is in charge anyway?!

Craig's list notified me of this mechanic's special for $2,800. It is a good-looking 2001 Accord with 107,400 miles--and a failing transmission--there is a check-engine light.

Adding ATF may make the light go away, but I am glad they don't know that, they are already charging far too much!

[redpoint5]

Vinegar and baking soda just creates a neutral pH. How is that supposed to do anything except make a volcano model for a science project?

[Piotrsko]

I suspect you do the vinegar as a cleaner then neutralize it with the baking soda which fizzes off the acidic remains.

Probably a useless you tube solution.

I do know the orange and blue stores do not carry anything strong enough to do the job properly as I have an allergy to molds of many colors.

I get my chemicals at either a landscaping supply or independent paint store since they chain stores don't carry that

[Nissandriver]

"Can I cut down a tree with my mind?"

I doubt that you can.

Originally Posted by Xist

Can you imagine climbing a ladder and\or a tree and using a reciprocating and\or chainsaw for hours?

I don't have to imagine it. I've done it many times. I've done all the things the others are advising you not to do. It's good advice.

Originally Posted by redpoint5

Folks getting paid hundreds to do an hour of work has me considering my choice of occupation.

I'm thinking the same thing. I should check the prices of climbing gear, licensing, and insurance.

[Piotrsko]

Guy across this street had tree work done, 2.5K$. Hispanic labor on scabbed together ancient equipment. Took all day for a 8 man crew, two crew trucks and a 40ft lift attached to the third box truck. left a cord of firewood after chipping which they took. Licensed certified arborist company wanted double.

Job pays well for the risk? Don't think so. Figure $15 @hour which for Reno is considered good money.

[Xist]

My friend's dad lives 20 minutes away and gets permits every year to cut down trees for firewood.

He drove past and said "The risk of damaging something is too high to take it on (retaining walls, etc)."

I read that some extensions were available for some pole saws, so I tried to see if Harbor Freight sold one.

Of course not!

I tried to find the pole saw with the longest handle (or extension), but only found one a couple of feet longer.

I found people gary-rigging pole saws--one guy secured his pole saw to a long handle using hose clamps and bolts.

He plugged in the extension cord to turn it on and unplugged it to turn it off.

I read about someone else who strapped their pole saw to a 2x4 and wondered if he could have found anything less awkward.

One guy used multiple extensions to make the whole thing 25' long and that seemed to work okay, but I didn't find an extension easily.

Looking again, this 31" extension is $70, and Ego recommends against stacking them: https://www.acehardware.com/departme...50?store=16988

So, it's possible!

• The extension costs more than my Harbor Freight pole saw, which I thought worked well enough.
• Ego only makes battery-powered products.
• Their pole saw is $170, but that is just the attachment if you already have a battery, charger, and whatever the heck a "Power head" is.
• The full package is $400 and I would still need to buy one or more attachments.
• I kept finding extensions for manual saws and some guy saying that a quality manual saw is orders of magnitude better than the cheap Corona one.
• The Corona one costs more than my Harbor Freight corded one and he said that it rusted after one use.
• He cut down a branch, showed the shaft flexed ridiculously, and counted well over 200 strokes to trim a branch.
• Then he used the pole saw which he said was the best. The shaft barely flexed, and it took over 100 strokes.
• He said it cost $300, but I couldn't find it locally.
• I found a Fiskars manual saw with a 16-foot handle for $100 in Show Low. Maybe I could find something longer down here, but I would rather not drive for 4 hours with my trunk open!
• I received 62.5% for an assignment I spent 8 hours doing on Sunday because apparently my professor hates bullet points even though all of the samples that I found on-line used them.

Wouldn't it be fun to cut down 20 branches, each requiring 200 strokes?!

[redpoint5]

Problem with pole saw length is that the longer it gets, the more leverage it has on the operator. Tilt past a certain angle and the saw will fall.

If there's no clear path to fell it, then it has to come down in sections. Pole saws are more for taking limbs off and not taking trees down in sections, though maybe it would work.

[Xist]

Let's say that the tree is 35' tall and 17.5" wide, in theory about 8' down, the trunk would be about 4" wide.

If one removed the branches, a 4" trunk shouldn't be too bad, but definitely worse 27' above the ground, on a long lever, but then you would only need to continue worrying about a 27' trunk.