I have not liked these cascara trees for several years, they put down lots of leaves in the ponds. Yesterday I took the top off the one on the right. I used a small pruning chainsaw mounted on my 24 foot extension pole. But it was really awkward to use and didn't feel safe.
Today I set up the ladder and tied it to the middle tree. I put my fall arrester gear on and hooked up two safety lines to it. I used my regular pole saw along with the small pruner chainsaw from yesterday and things worked much better.
Vera took lots of pictures and this one was the best at showing a limb falling.
This was about as far up as I could reach.
Vera asked for a smile as I was getting ready to come down, I had cut all the limbs I could reach.
I hooked a nylon rope to each tree and used the cable winch to pull them in the direction I wanted them to go. I managed to get them to fall to the North even though they were all leaning South.
This is how it looked when we got done. Vera moved a lot of the branches and piled them behind the rhododendron.
Two of the trees merged into a single stump.
I had been online looking about how to kill a stump and found a reference to using copper nails. When I looked on Amazon they got good reviews so I ordered some. I drilled 3/16th inch holes and pounded the nails onto them. I put eight in the big stump and two in each of the smaller ones. Now we will wait and see if they work.
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