Home Owners DIY warnings
All to often home owners think taking down a tree is as simple as just cutting it and it will fall without doing any damage. The trouble is all to often the tree doesn't always fall where it is planned for it to fall. Trees tend to fall the way they are leaning or they twist and fall exactly the opposite of where they look like they will fall.
The cost of DIY disasters runs into the thousands and even hundreds of thousands in property damage, simply because the home owner chooses to try it themselves. The cost for these type mistakes does not include physical injury and even death caused by trees falling the wrong way. Kickbacks, Chainsaw cuts, are just two sources of serious injury caused by someone not knowing how to cut a tree properly.
As you are reading this you are thinking "you know what you are doing" not always. Even professionals get injured by accidents which they didn't realize until it is to late to avoid them. The difference is the home owner has far less experience removing trees then the professionals.
The bottom line is what is it worth to try it yourself? Are you willing to take the chance of damaging your property or worse even causing yourself or family serious injury. Of course you may be able to remove the tree with our incident. But why take the chance?
The real benefit of hiring a professional to remove the tree is they know how to remove the tree as safely as possible and remove the chance of property damage and personal injury. yes they may charge you for their service but you should compare what they charge to what it could cost to (DIY) do it yourself.
We all know the horror stories of having a friend or relative do the work and how the end result is disaster. The best advice is unless they are a trained professional do not allow them to convince you they can do it. Your property or their life isn't worth taking the chance.
Bottom line is hire a professional to take care of your trees. Trimming, pruning, shaping, and removal should be done by professionals. Don't let the following be you!
By: Bud Johnson
09-10-13
