BIG SAW cut BIG TREE

[MCW]

Is it just me or do other guys look at large, beautiful trees regardless of whether they are protected or not and weigh up how they'd fell them?

I do

Frequently...

 

[RandyMac]

Is it just me or do other guys look at large, beautiful trees regardless of whether they are protected or not and weigh up how they'd fell them?

I do

Frequently...

Everyday.

 

[deye223]

yep me and the young bloke size'em up and then have a debate on where there going all the time

best way too teach the fundamentals of it but the rest he will have to learn actually droping trees

especially that big red gum in the roundabout just down the road that i took a picy for andrew for

 

[paccity]

Is it just me or do other guys look at large, beautiful trees regardless of whether they are protected or not and weigh up how they'd fell them?

I do

Frequently...

yea, but every time i walk up to them with a saw i get the feeling i'm being watched .

 

[mitch95100]

my friends get all pissed off when ever im like yep that one has rougly a 8 degree lean and this ne wind we have will push her down right bout there.
there all like "dont you ever think of anything else?"

 

[Gologit]

Is it just me or do other guys look at large, beautiful trees regardless of whether they are protected or not and weigh up how they'd fell them?

I do

Frequently...

Yup...I catch myself doing that all the time. It's just a habit. A few years ago I took some friends from back east over to see the Redwoods. I took them to Bull Creek and just let them wander for a couple of hours. They were very impressed with the size and majesty of those old giants.

I spent the time planning layouts and skid roads and landings.

 

[Eccentric]

Yup...I catch myself doing that all the time. It's just a habit. A few years ago I took some friends from back east over to see the Redwoods. I took them to Bull Creek and just let them wander for a couple of hours. They were very impressed with the size and majesty of those old giants.

I spent the time planning layouts and skid roads and landings.

Bob did tell your friends what was going through your head while you were at Bull Creek............or didya keep it to yourself?

 

[Gologit]

I kept my thoughts to myself. They're nice people but they wouldn't have understood.

I hadn't even realized I was laying out a job until I caught myself making scuff marks in the duff with my boot and pacing off distances.

 

[2dogs]

Is it just me or do other guys look at large, beautiful trees regardless of whether they are protected or not and weigh up how they'd fell them?

I do

Frequently...

Yup. I was at a Boy Scout event a couple of years ago and was just barely watching the campfire skits. A buddy walked up to me and asked if I was scaling out the big redwood in front of us. Uh, yeah, guilty as charged.

 

[RandyMac]

Awhile back, I had a chat with a Ranger in the State park, while looking at trees. He was cross with me, he knew I was up to something, I kept telling him I was just looking at trees. The young fella was irritated enough to run my ID.
I was checking the lean on a 12 footer with a plumbline, the cord crossed the lower third of the trunk.
I was thinking it was an uproot risk and might be better to just have a D8 cut the roots on it back side.

 

[Alex D]

they aren't a bad saw, I have run over half a dozen of them, they aren't gutless but no fireball either. What I don't get is why so many guys have the faulty idea that it is the all conquering monster saw of the world. It misses that by a goodly margin.

Power, reliability, they've been in production for over 3 decades and still are to this day, and theyve probably cut more old growth worldwide than any other chainsaw. Id say that qualifies a saw as one of the all time greats.

 

[andydodgegeek]

I find that even when I am driving I am always looking at big trees off the side of the road thinking how I would like to get a saw into that.

 

[zogger]

Big tree. leaners and wedges

There's a friendly debate with a challenge going on in the firewood forum, regarding the possibility of felling a large tree backwards against the lean using only wedges. You'll have to scroll down a bit to find the tree in question and the challenge bet.

http://www.arboristsite.com/firewood-heating-wood-burning-equipment/199216.htm

 

[RiverRat2]

here ya go rogue60

is that what you guys call stringy bark red gum??? or eucalyptus

nice trunk. did you bring enough saws to whittle on it .

He doesnt get out much!!!!! too busy working on saws!!!!

 

[deye223]

is that what you guys call stringy bark red gum??? or eucalyptus

nah mate thats just red gum around here . this is stringy it's only small and half as hard throw a bit of redgum in the river and it wil probably sink it's that dense and heavy

if you want to see some stringy a bit bigger look here http://www.arboristsite.com/chainsaw/193389.htm

 

[RiverRat2]

nah mate thats just red gum around here . this is stringy it's only small and half as hard throw a bit of redgum in the river and it wil probably sink it's that dense and heavy

if you want to see some stringy a bit bigger look here http://www.arboristsite.com/chainsaw/193389.htm

Cool!!!!! At least your getting to put some on the ground....

 

[MCW]

I weighed this one up this afternoon but I'd have been pepper sprayed, tasered, and shot before I'd have even made it through the bark. All I had on board was a customers blunt as hell MS230. This is at a little town called Lyndoch in the Barossa Valley, South Australia. Only about 80' tall but I have never seen such a chunky gum in my life and not too many with a fatter trunk...

 

[andydodgegeek]

I weighed this one up this afternoon but I'd have been pepper sprayed, tasered, and shot before I'd have even made it through the bark. All I had on board was a customers blunt as hell MS230. This is at a little town called Lyndoch in the Barossa Valley, South Australia. Only about 80' tall but I have never seen such a chunky gum in my life and not too many with a fatter trunk...

That would be a good advertisement for Stihl if you could cut that beast with an ms230. What a big crazy looking tree. Very cool.

 

[MCW]

That would be a good advertisement for Stihl if you could cut that beast with an ms230. What a big crazy looking tree. Very cool.

Not only a good advertisement for an MS230 but blunt .325" Stihl semi chisel would get some bonus points too Yeah I love these big gums, they are all different and have a lot of character. If the big branch out the side let go it would completely flatten the neighbour's shed. As in COMPLETELY

 

[2dogs]

There's a friendly debate with a challenge going on in the firewood forum, regarding the possibility of felling a large tree backwards against the lean using only wedges. You'll have to scroll down a bit to find the tree in question and the challenge bet.

http://www.arboristsite.com/firewood-heating-wood-burning-equipment/199216.htm

LB says he can stand up the tree pictured in this thread with wedges only. LB is a god! Or an idiot.