A dead front-yard oak above the power lines

A dead oak in a front yard is a clock running down. This one had the roof behind it and the power lines running underneath.

Dead wood is the reason for the lift. A climber reads a tree by putting weight on it, and a dead oak gives back very little worth reading. The lift put the saw where it needed to be and kept the load off the stem.

With lines below and a roof behind, the sections came off small and were lowered on rigging rather than dropped. Nothing was thrown clear of that tree at any point in the day.

Ground protection mats went down under the lift before it moved. A front lawn is the part of a property the owner looks at every morning, and a machine crossing it without mats leaves marks that outlast the memory of the tree.

Branches and limbs went into the truck and off the property. The trunk stayed. The homeowner asked for it cut to size and left on site, and that is what happened — one day on the property, and a stack of oak still sitting there when the crew pulled out.