GASoline71
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Gary
Gary
Big Tree Pics
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tdi-rick
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What?? no mods on your 044? Gary I didn't know you could cut wood with a stock saw.:msp_biggrin:
One of the largest Big Leaf Maples I have taken down. This pic was just a couple of weeks ago. This one was a co-dom that was 6 feet at the stump. I'm fallin' one of the spars here. I was standing about 3 to 4 feet off the ground on the root buttress to fall this guy.
This is the back cut on the 2nd spar. No roots to stand on... look how high I had to make my back cut. Good thing I'm 6' 5"...
I'm using a stock 10mm pin 044 built in 1993. No mods... not even a dual port muffler cover... 28" ES bar with full skip RSC chain. Only
"mod" to the saw is the USA Handlebars 3/4 wrap.
Gary
Watch out for spotted owl's Gary!!!
[video=youtube;ioUh2r0OUkk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioUh2r0OUkk[/video]
My favorite .....Way too go Jasha!!!
My favorite .....Way too go Jasha!!!
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Gary - u didn't steal santa's gloves did ya? j/k Nice pictures, nice saw thanks for sharing.
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Evanrude
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This one was about 34" dbh. Nice white oak! Cleared out a small woods with dead stands, couldn't understand why there were so many oaks dead. Another one I took out was a little bigger, but no pics.
MCW
Somebody's talking crap here & it ain't the tree!
My daddy told me, god willing and with horse steroids, that one day when I grow up I too can have the most awesomest sideburns like yours Randy. I hope my daddy is right because they are way cool. Like you know, so cool it's like Antactica cool. I'm surprised you didn't get frostbite on your cheeks they're so cool...
Anyway, a few of mine. Unfortunately I haven't cut many with trunks as big as some of you but have dropped trees up to nearly 180'.
Another unfortunate thing is that I have had to bail on two big dead Tasmanian Blue Gums in our area in the last 2 weeks and pass the customer onto the pros with high lift trucks. These both had trunks with diameters from 6 to 8 feet. Big fat ugly mothers with massive canopies that were in too tight of a spot with too many risks to property for me to take them on.
Tasmanian Blue Gum with rot. 390XPG and 32" bar. This tree was taller than I first thought and close to me getting slapped with a big fine if caught (my mate measured it properly later). Only a few metres off of "protected" (62 meters or 189')...
Tasmanian Stringybark with 390XP and 36" bar. Not tall but sort of fat...
This was a Silky Oak about 38" diameter that I dropped with the 390XP and 36" bar. Ignore the dodgey backcut angle. I hate being off square and get quite upset with myself. I forgot I wasn't cutting against the clock like normal and had it on the ground in minutes. Should have taken more time and lined it up better. I cut the top off the stump and hid it in case anybody in the know found it!
This was a Redgum a guy asked me to drop but he didn't realise naturally occurring trees in our state are protected and you need a permit to fell them. Big fine if I did and trees like this are logged via satellite imagery. Big Brother knows if they suddenly disappear. Girl in photo is my fiancee's cousin and she is 6 foot tall...
Few biggies on this job. 7900 with 24" bar...
And a solid Chinese Elm I dropped with the 3120 and 42" bar. This saw was only about a week old at the time from memory. This wood was HARD...
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That's a good vid, too bad the sound was removed.
mitch95100
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I need to get my pics off my old hard drive so can post them... 
zogger
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Third largest
What is left of a red oak I dropped a few years ago. It's the third largest I have ever dropped. To the left of the pics here about 35 yards was a much bigger red oak, that was split into two trunks. Each of those sides was much bigger than this one. I cut them at different times so I call them three different trees. The first one I dropped was a hoot, it was LOUD when it hit. These are 1/4 mile from our cabin, and the first one was in the middle of a drought, the ground was rock hard. When I got back to the cabin my GF was freaking out, she said she not only heard it fall, but it *shook the cabin*. So I named it treequake. Here is slightly smaller treequake three. All standing dead red oaks. Got just a great amount of firewood from there, didn't keep count, mucho cords. There's a scosh more than a cord left in this one log. Had to stop at that point of the log cutting it up, the 18" bar on the 55 rancher wasn't working, cutting from both sides, wouldn't reach and was beating on the saw. I plan on finishing this one this summer or whenever it dries up down there with my 600 echo with a 20" bar and will look for some more appropriate to use chain first.
I could only tote three rounds of the thicker stuff from those oak trees at a time back up the hill from swamp with the tractor, it is some really heavy wood. Carry wood in a cargo box with the hayforks and I can tell when it is parity with a 3/4 ton big round bale and quit there on loading it up. Have to back up the hills with a load that heavy, plus I have to cross a creek with sorta steep sides.
Most of our real huge trees (bigger than these, some walnuts and others) are down in the bottom pastures/swamp and I really don't like going down there when it is too muddy, like right now.... been stuck once and had to get a crawler to get out, and don't like leaving ruts I have to mow over later. I still have cords and cords left to bring up and finish cutting from some huge hickorys down there right now. They were/are roughly the same size as this bad boy (about 75 foot long, around three foot and change thick at the base) but I didn't drop those hickorys, mother nature with a big wind storm, then a little while later a tornado, did
What is left of a red oak I dropped a few years ago. It's the third largest I have ever dropped. To the left of the pics here about 35 yards was a much bigger red oak, that was split into two trunks. Each of those sides was much bigger than this one. I cut them at different times so I call them three different trees. The first one I dropped was a hoot, it was LOUD when it hit. These are 1/4 mile from our cabin, and the first one was in the middle of a drought, the ground was rock hard. When I got back to the cabin my GF was freaking out, she said she not only heard it fall, but it *shook the cabin*. So I named it treequake. Here is slightly smaller treequake three. All standing dead red oaks. Got just a great amount of firewood from there, didn't keep count, mucho cords. There's a scosh more than a cord left in this one log. Had to stop at that point of the log cutting it up, the 18" bar on the 55 rancher wasn't working, cutting from both sides, wouldn't reach and was beating on the saw. I plan on finishing this one this summer or whenever it dries up down there with my 600 echo with a 20" bar and will look for some more appropriate to use chain first.
I could only tote three rounds of the thicker stuff from those oak trees at a time back up the hill from swamp with the tractor, it is some really heavy wood. Carry wood in a cargo box with the hayforks and I can tell when it is parity with a 3/4 ton big round bale and quit there on loading it up. Have to back up the hills with a load that heavy, plus I have to cross a creek with sorta steep sides.
Most of our real huge trees (bigger than these, some walnuts and others) are down in the bottom pastures/swamp and I really don't like going down there when it is too muddy, like right now.... been stuck once and had to get a crawler to get out, and don't like leaving ruts I have to mow over later. I still have cords and cords left to bring up and finish cutting from some huge hickorys down there right now. They were/are roughly the same size as this bad boy (about 75 foot long, around three foot and change thick at the base) but I didn't drop those hickorys, mother nature with a big wind storm, then a little while later a tornado, did
dieselsmoke
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33" fir
Not the biggest by far, but pretty typical of the 2nd growth around here. I broke out my Ol mac 300 just for fun,,,
Not the biggest by far, but pretty typical of the 2nd growth around here. I broke out my Ol mac 300 just for fun,,,
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Teddy.Scout
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My largest is was a,
9th generation cotton wood that was a 4" snag stuck deep in our sugar bush Managed to get her down with a 090G sporting a 24" NOS Stihl hardnose bar running Homelite #40 chipper .404 chain..
9th generation cotton wood that was a 4" snag stuck deep in our sugar bush Managed to get her down with a 090G sporting a 24" NOS Stihl hardnose bar running Homelite #40 chipper .404 chain..
MCW
Somebody's talking crap here & it ain't the tree!
mcw
shes hot
Yeah she's not too shabby but sadly half my age and off limits
Nah, really nice girl too and off a farm. We've gone shooting together and even chainsawing. My fiancee is the same, loves all the outdoor stuff.
procarbine2k1
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I believe every word... hahaha
Stihlman441
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Ha Matt
Stick with them farm girls there the go..........
Stick with them farm girls there the go..........
