10 million trees down, power lines to hundreds of thousands of homes down, towns in all directions leveled, wind gust of upwards of a 100 miles per hour a time or two . . . I'm probably the only person in 100 mile radius of here that WANTED a limb to fall in their yard today . . .and yet, the limb still hangs.    I just don't get it?   

I think I'm gonn'a tie it to my truck and see if it can pull it down . . .

Make sure you tie it to the back; the rear window probably needs to be replaced too!

I didn't make pictures and I made sure no one was around when I did this . . . I wrapped the rope around my trailer hitch, got a running start . . . the hitch held and the rope didn't break . . . and my S-10 came to a sudden stop and with the tires spinning forward, the limb pulled it back about 4 feet.  Tried it several times with the same results.  The D@## limb is still hanging tight!  

There comes a time when, no matter how bad it hurts his pride, a man must admit defeat.  



But, this isn't that time.    I'm not defeated, but I am calling for re-enforcements.  I'll make some video of Tom's Tree Service when I get them down here to take this limb down and grind it into mulch!    It think's it's tough, but we'll see who wins this fight!  

Zen, I have some tree climbing spikes and the belt if you want to go up after it? Let me know and I'LL BRING THE CAMERA! 

What's the weight rating on the belt?

Lets see...I got it at an estate sale of a family friend about 10 years ago. We remember moving his garage the two times before that (and everything was still where we moved it to...). I'd say other than when I got the set, it hadn't been out of the box in 20 years...so its over 30 years old and the leather is kinda dry. I bet it won't hold much... but you can try! 

I left a message with the tree guy I always use for stuff I can't handle, but I haven't heard back from him . . . I guess he's got more work than he can handle right now.  So, while I waiting I bought one of those chainsaw-on-a-rope deals from Harbor Freight.  I have a couple of small limbs in another tree that need to come down 'cause they are hanging on my roof, so I decided to try it on those first, then if it worked great, I'd try to saw down the limb that's holding my problem limb.  I thnk this thing might actually work on some types of trees, but it doesn't work that great on a pin oak.  Got it stuck in the cut about 3 times and finally broke the chain (a link popped off it's rivet).  Got it fixed, but I'm giving up on it too . . . so I guess I'll wait on the tree guy to call me back . . . got a feeling it might be a long wait though.

That will give me time to figure out some more hair-brained ideas to try.  Gott'a go.  I think the Road Runner is on TV . . .  Wile E. is my hero!  Now where did I put my Acme cataloge?