#Lowes open snatch blocks full

I would guess there are a lot of folks here that can take your tree down safely once they had a look at it. Its sort of a judgement call and if you have never done it, you have no experience to make a judgment call.

Get to high and you can break the top out of the tree and then have no control. I have found that the higher in the tree I can tie the rope, the easier it is to pull it the direction I want it to go. Number one, is your rope long enough to keep from pulling the tree down on the truck. Pulling tall trees with a vehicle is iffy to say the least.

#Lowes open snatch blocks full

I took home about a full cord of limb wood and building or nobody got hurt. My little 500lb test rope wouldnt have held up to that kind of pull and my truck would never get the traction to break the 3/8 cable. Pulling with the truck we swung the limb off the shop roof and actually jerked it loose from the main trunk. With me lifted up in the tractor bucket, I made a back cut about half way thru the limb and then got down. Using a block, we ran the cable to another tree and hooked the end of it to my truck. There was one big limb we waited to cut until the next day when I could bring a 3/8 wire rope to pull the limb. While I sawed, my brother just hand pulled the rope and that was enough to steer the limbs off the shop. I put tension on the rope only with the tractor.

I used a toss rope to get the bigger rope over the limb and a slip knot to pull it tight. I did use the rope to take a few limbs out of a tree hanging over my brothers shop. Rope is meant more for dragging game than pulling trees.

I bought a cheap 500lb rope at Lowes, just to have in the truck.