How does a person take a tree down if they don't want to pay for tree trimming service, but the trees are too close to the buildings to just let the whole tree come over. This was an issue we faced a few years back when one of the elm trees died next to the house. The solution that my uncle came up with is quite ingenious. He got a cross bow, added some weight to the arrow and tied the arrow to a string. We shoot the arrow over the branch we want to cut then use the string to pull up a small rope that can be used to pull over a larger rope. We loop around that limb. A little further closer to the trunk of the tree on the same limb we shoot another string over, then pull up the tail of the rope that was tied further out. We tighten that rope up and have successfully tied off the limb. We put another rope up that's farther out on the limb we're working on so we have something to pull on to break the branch.
Next we modified an electric pole saw to go on the end of a 30 ft ladder with 10 ft extending pipe. We have a couple of ropes on it for stabilizing the saw. The pole saw is then put in to place. From a safe distance we start the pole saw and cut through about 2/3 of the limb. We move the pole saw out of the way then yank on the rope at the end of the limb. The limb breaks off and then we slowly lower the limb down to the ground. The process is repeated until we have all the limbs down. We try to keep the limb size to under 600 lbs.
All the work is done from the safety of the ground. It is a slow go but it saves having to have the tree service come out for one tree.
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