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  • wedgewedge@woodworking.group
    Jul 4, 2026, 4:11 PM

    I’ve mentioned before this dying tree needs to come down. Well, the time is getting close.

    The plan is to get up there and de-limb the rest, or as high as I can, then top them off down to about where those bottom limbs are now. Then fall the rest. I want to keep lengths for carving, but I also don’t want to crush all the bushes and plants sloped underneath.

    First step was to move this rose bush on left to make ladder room. Not the season for it, but I have no choice.

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  • wedgewedge@woodworking.group
    Jul 4, 2026, 4:31 PM

    And there we are. I had to throttle the roots because it was so close to the patio slab. It probably won’t survive. But I’ve done what I can to give it a fighting chance. That would be a nice place for a rose bush. At edge of the southwest flower bed.

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  • wedgewedge@woodworking.group
    Jul 4, 2026, 4:49 PM

    I like roses okay, but they’re not a thing I would buy to have in the yard. Not least of which I don’t like dealing with thorns. And this one is a bright pink, a color I don’t particularly like. But, it was there and I’ll try to save it if I can.

    There’s another pink-rose bush just left of where the other was, and it needs moved too because once the tree is down, some barrier screens are going up to block pool man’s house and driveway looking into our kitchen.

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  • wedgewedge@woodworking.group
    Jul 6, 2026, 8:38 AM

    I can’t lean the ladder safely on the narrow trunks of the tree that high, so I’ll try nailing stretchers between them, with middle braces to prevent ladder sliding left or right.

    That should get me high enough to delimb the parasol and top off. No power saw here.

    I hate cutting this tree down because ‘parasol’ is no joke. That scraggly half-dead top blocks a *lot* of hot midday sun where I sit outside the kitchen. The yew underneath won’t grow tall enough in my remaining years, unfortunately.

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  • Aethontempusfelix@wehavecookies.social
    Jul 6, 2026, 9:31 AM

    @wedge

    You’re a braver man than I Gunga Din (acknowledging the bastardisation and colonialism of the poem)

    How high is that off the ground? Topping and felling those is no joke,
    I hope it goes well, with no major issues.

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  • wedgewedge@woodworking.group
    Jul 6, 2026, 10:15 AM

    @tempusfelix

    Looks higher than it is, really. About 6 meters, maybe, give or take.

    I delimbed it the same way up to that point last year, until the top ladder rung felt stressed on the trunks. But working/sawing wasn’t a problem; one branch at a time. I think a stable ladder placement will do the job.

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  • Aethontempusfelix@wehavecookies.social
    Jul 6, 2026, 2:00 PM

    @wedge

    That’s high enough for me! I always said I’m a badger not a squirrel. Happy to do the ground work but I ain’t climbing!

    Hope it goes smoothly.

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