By Jerry Barmash For Dailymail.

Jun 15, In Februarya homeowner was seriously injured after falling from a ladder while trimming branches from a tree in Frederick, Oklahoma.

The man was using a chain saw to trim broken limbs from the can you trim trees in june around his home.

One of the limbs he severed fell into his ladder, knocking it over and causing the man to fall 12 feet to the treedelimbing.bars: 3. Trees, Saws and Ladders Don't Mix!

In May ofa Lexington, Kentucky, woman was struck by a falling tree limb and died. According to a local news report, the woman was holding a ladder for her husband, who was standing on it to trim a tree branch caught in a power line. The large limb fell, spinning her around and knocking her face-first into the concrete.

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Nov 15, Video footage captured the painful moment a drunk man took a tumble off a ladder after cutting down a tree branch. The clip shows the man using a chainsaw to cut Estimated Reading Time: 3 mins. May 11, I don't think I'll be able to simply pull it off. I think I have to cut it.

My thought was go up a ladder on the left tree, and cut it at the hinge point, so it drops down away from the tree. I don't like the idea of being on a ladder, 15 ft in the air, when everything let's go, though.

How would you [safely] take down this tree?

Place the feet of the ladder one-fourth of the ladder's length from the tree trunk. Allow at least 3 feet of the ladder to be above the cut you'll be making for a more stable ladder.