Since there has never been a metro-Detroit GTG, well, it’s time for one!
This will be a bit of a hybrid GTG, since its purpose is partly practical and partly recreational. I am the president of the non-profit Association that manages and maintains the historic Redford Cemetery on the Redford/Detroit border, which has been in continuous operation for 170+ years. We are a private cemetery, with burial rights limited to descendants of the original Redford families, and we've been working to reclaim the property for the past few years after a generation of neglect. We also have a number of veteran burials, some dating back to the Revolutionary War, that had been nearly lost to overgrowth and poor maintenance.
I had two large hazard trees put down last month that were too messy to just flop and drop. There is a fair bit of stuff needing to be cut up, ranging from twigs to 48”+ chunks. So instead of just going down to Detroit with CaseyForrest and my splitter, I figured it might be more fun as an informal GTG. If we get enough of a turnout, we can drop a couple other offending trees, too.
Here’s the plan. Saturday, March 15th, starting at 9:00am or so and running until we’re tired or bored or whatever. We’ll have a chance to actually run saws in a bit of wood that will bury a 42” bar and maybe even a 48”. So bring your bigger saws, longer bars, and your semi-chisel chain if you want to make some big cuts in some larger chunks of hardwood; we’ve got some nasty old chunks of elm that were dumped in a drainage hole that need to be cut up, too.
This is not going to be a structured GTG with 8x8” poplar cants, just an informal event where we cut up some stuff that needs to be cleaned up. A working GTG of sorts. Cut some cookies, block stuff to firewood length, trim and limb, a mix of "real" chainsaw stuff.
I'll bring some snacks and non-adult beverages, as well as a few saws (including the yet untested Husqvarna 154DN).
If anyone has a chainsaw on a stick (Echo PPT, Stihl HT) that they'd like to bring along, it could come in handy for some trimming and for pre-limbing a dying weeping willow from the ground, since I've got a bunch of new bareroot trees planted in the drop zone for the crown, should we end up doing a flop-and-drop on the willow.
The cemetery has no facilities of any sort, no power, and no amenities, but since it is in the ‘hood there are plenty of gas stations, cheap carwashes, and liquor marts nearby! Oh, a nice mix of bums, drug dealers, and dirty prostitutes roaming the streets, too.
Pictures of past cemetery work can be found at REDFORDCEMETERY.ORG (I swear I’m going to update the page and re-resize the pics for the website one of these days so they don’t look quite so blurry…), as well as: BIG WILLOW TREE TAKEDOWN.
Here is a each shot of the hazard trees that was put down in January:
Some of the chunks that need to be cut up:
Past fun:
This will be a bit of a hybrid GTG, since its purpose is partly practical and partly recreational. I am the president of the non-profit Association that manages and maintains the historic Redford Cemetery on the Redford/Detroit border, which has been in continuous operation for 170+ years. We are a private cemetery, with burial rights limited to descendants of the original Redford families, and we've been working to reclaim the property for the past few years after a generation of neglect. We also have a number of veteran burials, some dating back to the Revolutionary War, that had been nearly lost to overgrowth and poor maintenance.
I had two large hazard trees put down last month that were too messy to just flop and drop. There is a fair bit of stuff needing to be cut up, ranging from twigs to 48”+ chunks. So instead of just going down to Detroit with CaseyForrest and my splitter, I figured it might be more fun as an informal GTG. If we get enough of a turnout, we can drop a couple other offending trees, too.
Here’s the plan. Saturday, March 15th, starting at 9:00am or so and running until we’re tired or bored or whatever. We’ll have a chance to actually run saws in a bit of wood that will bury a 42” bar and maybe even a 48”. So bring your bigger saws, longer bars, and your semi-chisel chain if you want to make some big cuts in some larger chunks of hardwood; we’ve got some nasty old chunks of elm that were dumped in a drainage hole that need to be cut up, too.
This is not going to be a structured GTG with 8x8” poplar cants, just an informal event where we cut up some stuff that needs to be cleaned up. A working GTG of sorts. Cut some cookies, block stuff to firewood length, trim and limb, a mix of "real" chainsaw stuff.
I'll bring some snacks and non-adult beverages, as well as a few saws (including the yet untested Husqvarna 154DN).
If anyone has a chainsaw on a stick (Echo PPT, Stihl HT) that they'd like to bring along, it could come in handy for some trimming and for pre-limbing a dying weeping willow from the ground, since I've got a bunch of new bareroot trees planted in the drop zone for the crown, should we end up doing a flop-and-drop on the willow.
The cemetery has no facilities of any sort, no power, and no amenities, but since it is in the ‘hood there are plenty of gas stations, cheap carwashes, and liquor marts nearby! Oh, a nice mix of bums, drug dealers, and dirty prostitutes roaming the streets, too.
Pictures of past cemetery work can be found at REDFORDCEMETERY.ORG (I swear I’m going to update the page and re-resize the pics for the website one of these days so they don’t look quite so blurry…), as well as: BIG WILLOW TREE TAKEDOWN.
Here is a each shot of the hazard trees that was put down in January:
Some of the chunks that need to be cut up:
Past fun:
