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 | jackdog
Join Date: May 2014 Posts: 6 missouri 
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2023-03-17 201528
I need some advice on felling a White Ash that has split right down the middle starting about 15 feet up where is it is split horizontal like the back cut. The vertical split atarted at theat spot adn now extends up and down from the horizontal break. Worse thing is that as it the split comes to the base it gets narrower and narrower. Am I right in thinking this is not a cutable tree without some large log skidder?
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| jackdog
Join Date: May 2014 Posts: 6 missouri
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2023-03-17 201529
I am hoping the tree will fall in the direction the current lean and back cut break. ....
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 | Murf
Join Date: Dec 1999 Posts: 7239 Toronto Area, Ontario, Canada 
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2023-03-18 201532
Hard to tell without seeing it in person, but I’ve seen split trunks felled by wrapping them in strong steel cables to keep them together long enough to drop them.
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| jackdog
Join Date: May 2014 Posts: 6 missouri
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2023-03-19 201536
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Interesting solution, I have seen cracked telephone poles repaired using heavy guage metal banding when the crack is near the base. Since my experience with the banding is "none" and compounded by the horizontal breach at 15 feet up, I think I am going to wait on nature or get a land clearing crew in to take care of the 10+ dead ash trees I have this spring. ....
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