Action Shots...

[MS460WOODCHUCK]

Here's one from about a year and a half ago running my 460 after I got the tree on the ground. 7 trees this size that day to fill the truck and trailer.

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Same day
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The 460 was hungry that day, it had wood laying all over so I took a picture of just it.
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[pops21]

Is that black locust you cutting woodchuck?

 

[MS460WOODCHUCK]

Is that black locust you cutting?

1st and 3rd picture is oak, 2nd picture is ash. No locust that day but I did get 3 locust trees the next day from the same woods but did'nt take the camera which is now not working. (something about 6 and 10 yr old boys and cameras don't mix):monkey:

 

[pops21]

Black locust is my favorite wood for the wood furnace. Matter of fact we only burn it when it is the coldest part of the winter cause of how hot it burns. Around here its rare to find enough locust to get a good wood pile. My grand parents had me and my dad cut down 2 last year. Good enough for 2 cords of wood. The base of one of them was 24 inches.

 

[MS460WOODCHUCK]

Black locust is my favorite wood for the wood furnace. Matter of fact we only burn it when it is the coldest part of the winter cause of how hot it burns. Around here its rare to find enough locust to get a good wood pile. My grand parents had me and my dad cut down 2 last year. Good enough for 2 cords of wood. The base of one of them was 24 inches.

Locust is the best firewood out there in my opinion!

 

[Modifiedmark]

I'm not the best photographer, but I like this picture of Bill G and his piped Mac 125 from last summers GTG.

 

[Guido Salvage]

Locust is the best firewood out there in my opinion!

Been known to make a pretty decent fence post too.

 

[MadMax5578]

http://www.youtube.com/user/jashar92


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Wow. As if felling trees wasn't deadly enough, add a wildfire to the mix. Crazy.

 

[stihl sawing]

Fixin to buck a sweetgum that i cut down for a guy

 

[Stihlman441]

Wow. As if felling trees wasn't deadly enough, add a wildfire to the mix. Crazy.

So why do they cut some of these trees down????

 

[Bedford]

So why do they cut some of these trees down????

They can burn like a roman candle and send sparks into unburnt country.

 

[DJ4wd]

Locust is the best firewood out there in my opinion!

I would mostly agree with you,although I got into some elm last year and it would give the locust a run for its money.

 

[madhatte]

So why do they cut some of these trees down????

Lots of reasons, though generally it's one of the following:

1) the fire-damaged tree is dangerous to work around, and will stay dangerous after the fire
2) the tree is in the path of oncoming fire, and removing the fuel represented by the tree helps get the fire under control
3) the tree is burning already, and cutting it down keeps the fire from spreading to other trees

In all cases, the faller has to assess whether the risk is worth the benefit. Note the high stumps? We're not falling for scale. We're cutting in the lowest safe undamaged wood. If the tree won't come down safely, we let it burn. No amount of acreage is worth getting killed over.

 

[Bubbles Up]

Just cuttin a few cookies after pulling off the limiter caps and a muff mod. Hoping to have the dol-kita 4610 in action soon.

 

[woodyman]

A couple action pics from grampatractor's fall 2009 GTG in Grantsberg,WIS and I had none of me except this one from this spring standing on a pile of some of the wood with my sold 371XP a few AS members cut for Interfaith Charities that gives wood to elderly families so they can stay in there homes because of high heating bills.