Tree trimming

[Too Many Projects]

I had several Elm tree branches growing over the roof of my lawn equipment shed and shop pole barn roofs. I had contracted with a tree service back in May to do this, but they kept putting me off, as it was a fill-in job when they were in the area and we have had several storms that knocked down many trees and limbs in the area. This is exactly why I hired the contractor in the first place, so these limbs wouldn't come down and my roofs get damaged.... sigh. So what does a DIY guy do ? Go rent a 45' boomlift and git-r-done myself. Not the first time I've done this, but it's always spooky swaying around in a basket up this high. Last pic is the saw I used. I bought this Milwaukee 8" "Axe" battery powered saw and man does that cut. I did the whole job with just this saw and only went thru 2 batteries. Amazing little saw.
Had it home and set up by 8 am, cut nearly none stop until 12:15 pm, had a 45 minute lunch break and finished cutting at 2:30 pm. Cleaned it off, took it back and when I got home my wife was knocking down the brushy limbs and loading the 2 place snowmobile trailer to haul it to recycling on Wednesday, so jumped in with her and we had 90% of it loaded by 4:30.

[Ralph Spears]

What did it cost to rent the lift? It is not good to have any trees near a building they will come down someday.

[SS427]

Yep, been there done that. We lose on average about 3 trees a year and this is MUCH cheaper than hiring a tree trimmer as long as you don't mind the clean up. I just had a branch go thru my garage roof due to me delaying cutting off a dead limb. My rental was $430 for 24 hours.

[Too Many Projects]

My rental was for 24 hours too, but I didn't want to have to take it back at 7:30 this morning so returned it yesterday. I did all I wanted by 2:30, but had missed the 4 hour window by quite a bit by then.
Rental was $409.
We pile it all on the "brush trailer" as we have called the sled trailer for years and take it to a recycling place. Wednesday is old farts day and I can usually get by for $5-10 to drop it off.

[RPOLS3]

Make sure you guys or anyone that uses these are tied off with a harness in that basket - if it starts bouncing it will toss you out like a trampoline......

[LT1vette]

And they "All lived happily ever after"!!!!

[BJCHEV396]

$409.00/24 hrs.is very reasonable.

[396 SS/RS]

Originally Posted by BJCHEV396

$409.00/24 hrs.is very reasonable.

Especially when compared to the cost of a tree trimmer.

[WILMASBOYL78]

I'm getting vertigo just looking at the photos

[Too Many Projects]

Originally Posted by WILMASBOYL78

I'm getting vertigo just looking at the photos

I get the vertigo from a crystal floating around once in a while and I had small episodes for a couple days before I rented this and yeah, especially when I looked up and then back down, it got a little woozy a few times. Just hold onto the basket and close my eyes for a minute for it to get better and then keep going.