Do you consider yourself a handyman around the house?

It will be nice when done, looks good in pictures. You should see my grandmother's house built in I think the 20's by my great grandfather. No foundation, just wood on small chunks of concrete. My uncle placed jacks under the corners to kinda level it out.

 

This right here.

Wityh that said, I need to hire a plumber to assess whether adding new pipes will improve my water pressure. I need to hire a tree removal guy because the one in the backyard is about to fall over onto the house.
I need to hire a GC because I wont have the time to replace/modify my back deck to allow for a cement slab, hot tub and AC unit.

Anyone know anybody?
Tree needs to go first. lol

 

Do you own a heavy duty truck? Tie that sum bitch up and gas it!

 

How big is the tree? Is your yard that big? Where is your yard?

 

I see a bad plan coming together.

 

They just need to record it for uhhh, fun.

 

Its some tall thin type of tree that p\uyts tons of pllon out, not lage leaves. Trunk looks simliar to Alder.

Here is the key, its about 35-45 tall, but the top 20' are just twiggy thin.
It is in a nasty area in my back yard. Up alongside a fence, but leaning towards the house with a 3 inch gap between it and the lean too.
My thought is it may need some sort of scissor lift, so someone can get up and cut down in sections, but I heard anything over 35' requires a permit.
And actually this last storm just busted one of the top branches, so it might be much shorter very soon.
Ill try to take pictures today, but I just got back fro mthe doctors and about to crash out. Soooo fucking sick...

 

Put #10 and sign it Przybilla

 

I do small stuff. I do not do Electric work, not on the house, nor on the cars. Anything that requires exposing wires I do not do.

Only stuff I like doing is building wood outdoor furniture - I usually build something once a year.

 

I usually will not try to tackle something if I can't get it done in a day. I also wouldn't try to do something like install quartz countertops.

 

I need to get this removed this year. You can see it's in a tough spot and leans over the house.

 

This heavy wet snow may bring down a lot of those branches. Hope they do not damage your roof, but it could make the job of removing the tree easier.

One of my trees has every branch bent so far over from the snow, I am sure they have cracked near the trunk. Probably lost that tree.

 

In the first pic you can see how the top splits into two tips. One of them broke last week in the ice storm and is now hanging by a thread and that is what turned on the light bulb for me that this thing needs to go asap.

Last thing I need to do is pay for a tree removel AND a leantoo/deck repair replacement.

 

If I was younger, I would take that tree down for you. But, my balance is not what it used to be, and I do not trust myself climbing trees anymore.

My guess is, your tree will need to be cut into small sections, and then dropped by rope so the small sections do not land on your roof. The good news is. The main trunk is not very thick, so the sections should not require a large expensive crane.

It’s a very doable job, you just need to find someone that knows what their doing.

 

Pretty much what I thought. And I can get a scissor lift up next to the front side of the lean to. The other side of the house is has more room with a large gate. I'm concerned about climbing though because for the last 20 there is not a branch that will hold anything.
I am 6'4 240# so I damn sure ain't climbing it, lol.
Home Depot has bucket style scissor lifts for rent, but I am thinking like you. Rather just find the right guy who knows what he is doing. The fee to me is not as important as getting it out sooner than later and being safe about it.
I made contact with a couple people on craigslist who said they were tree removers, but they were flakes...

 

A pole saw will extend your reach and get most of the high up thin limbs. You would need to cut very small sections and small limbs at a time. Not sure of a safe way to attach a rope that high up? Without a rope to lower them, you may want to protect the roof somehow because those limbs will be dropping all the way. Maybe plywood sheets?

I have a decent manual pole saw with about a 12’? adjustable telescoping reach. I have added more extensions to that, but it gets very hard to work with the extensions, easy without them. It is in Idaho, but I can bring it back on my next trip if you want to use it.

It is very similar to this one. Basically what you do is whittle the tree down in very small sections. I normally spread the work out over several days. You do not want to overwork yourself when up on a lift, safety first, but you know that.

 

Thanks, I have a buddy who has a gas powered pole saw, but it wont come close to getting to where the first cut would need to be.

The tough part is the lean to because it is just thin greenhouse style plastic roofing, so it wont be able to handle much of any type of impact.