Ice storm came through Michigan in February this year and have three broken limbs 20-30 feet up in a couple trees. Think I’ll try this approach and your video was an excellent real-world demonstration of how it works. Thanks!

Watching you deal with the snags is as useful as the original intent. I nothing else it sets expectations.

Plan B and plan C always come in handy.

Great job, showing a difficult situation.

When I was a kid my dad used one of these. What he did was use a fishing rod with a nut, then tie mason line to the fishing line and so forth

When cutting large branches, you cannot avoid getting the chain pinched when doing this alone. Safety dictates you need to be off to the side, so the branch doesn't fall on you. That makes the chain cut on the top, far side, and bottom. The chain will be deep in the cut when the branch sags and jams it on the bottom side. With two people, each standing well out to each side, it never cuts on the bottom, so it can't jam. The strap handles will destroy your hands. Make a set of handles with short pieces of pvc pipe and steel rod. You'll be glad you did. I found the best way to accurately get a line over a high branch is with bow and arrow. An archery shop can make you a flu flu arrow that has little pieces of feather all around the arrow. It will slow down rapidly in flight, so you can get it over the branch and drop just beyond it. I found the best line to shoot is monofilament fishing line, perhaps 30 pound test. Use a large spinning reel, like would be used for surf casting. The rod needs to be next to the shooter and pointed exactly where the arrow will fly, in order to avoid line breakage. The high limb kit I have has a strip of sheet metal that is permanently attached to an end link at right angles. It acts as a weight to help the chain orient itself to the teeth down position. hallsarrowdotcom has the flu flu arrows. Use one with blunt tip for safety.

Very creative and professional!

Good information here, and glad you showed ways to get around obstacles. Well done, and thanks for posting. P.S. (Nice fish pond)

tie a light string/rope to a hammer head and throw. (For trees with many branches I use a child's first bow and arrow set) By the way if you are just 1 person using the saw it will likely bind the saw. If you have 2 people standing on opposite sides of the tree it will not bind.

Nice job!

Thanks for the video i never saw this before

Mike Haduck would put those rocks to use in the back of your yard lol 😂

Good video. It was good that you used a safety harness when climbing the tree. I have a $100 harness that I have yet to use so I am not tempted to take risks at height. It may have been easier and safer to take the whole tree down with a winch cutting from the ground.

I tried using one of these on a thick oak branch about 25' up. Chain got stuck repeatedly so I gave up. I wondered if having two people to pull, and maybe standing 20' apart, the chain would be less likely to get stuck. Also thought since I didn't have a helper if a garage door spring anchored on one end of the rope would enable me to get a see saw motion going.

As others have alluded, probably a good idea to have a decent rope on the branch so you can control it, and jerk it around to snap off the holding wood once the chain stops cutting.

Nice pond

Thanks for the video but climbing the other tree tried to defeats the purpose of not having to climb so this would not work for me but thanks for the video

Some videos show people using a fishing rod and casting nylon line over the branches - then attach the saw's rope to the nylon line and then reel it back up and over the branch. Far quicker and less bizarre than spending three hours shivering in the cold and rain with a rod and line waiting for a fish to bite... Paul G

FYI - I bought a kids rocket ( rubber band launcher ) and tied fishing line to it. It was easy to shoot over the branch and then pull the rope and saw blade over the branch.

Great job! Thank you very much! At 4.27 mark, when you are using the sling shot, what are those two cables to the left of you used for? They appear to be going to one of the tree limbs?

They get stuck because it requires two people to keep the cutting chain at a wider angle also lots of the chain kits are shit because they are not a double sided cutting chain which means if its one sided you got to bugger around to get the chain right side to cut.

If a drone could be used to place the string into place or with a saw on it could be the answer to make this task easier and fun.

The time, labor and the unknown, take my money and get it done.

2nd person to help you would probably be great

Almost everyone who has one of these rope-saws say you need to have two people - one at each rope-end and standing as far apart as possible to keep the chain as horizontal as possible otherwise it gets constantly snagged and pinched. And I do have one - and even with chainsaw oil the chain gets stuck when it's dug just a few millimetres into the branch - you have to violently ripple-shake the rope upwards to try to get the distant chain loose - and then of course you have to try to get that distant high-up chain back into the groove where it was and vainly hope it won't promptly get stuck again! So it ain't no 21st century sci-fi / AI tree-zapping solution. No - what we all need is a world where all tree-cutters have and use their own hydraulic platform boom-lifts aka man-lifts - not dangerous ladders etc - to cut and trim trees over 4-5 metres tall super-quickly, easily and safely. Just as most municipal authorities and forestry workers etc do - they'd otherwise have workers falling off ladders and (half-) killing themselves week-in, week-out...with non-stop lawsuits and 6-7 figure settlements to deal with.. Paul G

It’s called Paracord.

I haven't tried this, but I wonder if the gun used to launch tennis balls for dogs to chase might work?? Maybe add some weight to the tennis ball??

you have a beautiful property... do you live in the Northeast?

Why did you not tie a rope to the upper tree and lead it to the hill and come-along it away from the structure, and cut the tree at its base?

Anyone try using a fishing pole to launch a weight over a limb? I have been using small slingshot but my thin cord keeps getting hung up.

Bet the fish didnt like the sudden violent crashing of the tree limb into their pond.

Looks like the kit is about $30. I have a few horizontal branches intruding in my yard from a ignorant neighbor's trees.. this might be a good solution. And branches are not as high but maybe 25' +/- 5

What I was thinking of, me to need so badly,... Fck. I throw up a kite line, pull a rope to hang down over the (fckg neighbour's) overhang, swing and break; -remember to have seen a flexible woodfile type saw.

get a cheap bow and fishing arrow and heavy weight fishing line or skip all that and get a high powered laser

Didn't they make a shotgun shell to launch and aim that MONKEY'S PAW?

DUH

You should go to rock-climbers and learn a little bit more about knots and ropes. It seems you should learn about these.

That ladder operation was so sketchy! Don't try this at home...

Giant sling shot? Why not use it as a simple sling (Think David and Goliath) only practice is required, costs nothing. Not good enough with a sling, how about Bow and an Arrow tied to a loose thread. Simple Accurate and useful for sport or play, unlike giant slingshots.

I have never heard of this before.I know people smoke marijuana and get high but tree branches getting high now? And you're going to cut it while it's high? geeez 😜😜

old soul millenial huh? i just want to make sure my soul is my responsibility and nver any one on youtubes. Amen.