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Three years back a client made me spike a 60 foot oak instead of taking it down, and I still say that was the right call
So three years ago this guy out in Milford had a big white oak leaning maybe 15 degrees over his kid's swingset, and every company that came out told him it had to come down, five grand, sign here. I walked it and the lean was old, the root plate was sound, there was no fungus at the base, so I told him we could reduce the crown on the heavy side and cable it and buy him a decade. He looked at me like I was trying to cheat him out of a tree removal, and honestly that bugged me for a while. We did the work in April of that year, two cables, about 30 percent weight off the lean side, cleaned up some included bark. I drove past it this spring and the thing is still standing straight as it ever was and the kid is older now and still swinging under it. My point is this trade has gotten too quick to sell a removal because it pays the truck and the crew for a day, and I think a lot of guys quit learning reduction cuts the day they bought their first crane. If the tree is healthy and the lean is old, fix the load, don't sell the stump grinding. What is your cutoff for cabling versus just telling the homeowner it is time, because I know guys who will not touch a lean over 10 degrees no matter what.
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