Falling pics 11/25/09

[redprospector]

Isn't anybody falling? Or are we sitting around with coffee cups and watching thermometers? I guess I'll have to go see if I can get some of the limb locked trees to actually hit the ground just so there'll be something to discuss other than temperatures. And that is getting desperate!:msp_biggrin:

 

[Gologit]

Isn't anybody falling? Or are we sitting around with coffee cups and watching thermometers? I guess I'll have to go see if I can get some of the limb locked trees to actually hit the ground just so there'll be something to discuss other than temperatures. And that is getting desperate!:msp_biggrin:

Well?

 

[056kid]

I have a vid of a maple I cut, but I don't know how to post it...

 

[TreeGuyHR]

Couple shots of some large cottonwood clumps I took down that make my 084 look small. Each stump was around 7 by 5 ft. The saw has a 42 in. bar. I used my truck winch to assist getting the stumps over -- the larger one in two pieces.View attachment 261620View attachment 261621View attachment 261622View attachment 261623

 

[Rounder]

Well?

No pics...Lone Ranger as usual. Have been on a nicer block. FS salvage, 3-4' / 3 log red fir. Next block is a piss fir poopy-hole...also crispy.

Hope you all had a good safe week - Sam

 

[forestryworks]

Couple shots of some large cottonwood clumps I took down that make my 084 look small. Each stump was around 7 by 5 ft. The saw has a 42 in. bar. I used my truck winch to assist getting the stumps over -- the larger one in two pieces.View attachment 261620View attachment 261621View attachment 261622View attachment 261623

I bet you smell like a bucket of barf after cutting those stink sticks

 

[TreeGuyHR]

I bet you smell like a bucket of barf after cutting those stink sticks

yeah, they did smell.

I did notice I wasn't wearing my helmet -- oops. I attached a shot climbing the tree that is rigged in the pic above where I am. I took some weight off the back side and pulled it over. And no, I didn't put the limbs through the guy's shed--- it was like that when I got there! I swear!View attachment 261626

 

[Rounder]

You guys get enough snow down there to take a test lap on that new sled of yours?

No, dammit! I was kind of looking forward to that.
Working right on top of Lolo Pass and only have about 3 inches of snow....Mostly just wind. The wind blew all of the snow away down here in the canyon.....Suppose I'll just fire it up tommorow and listen to it idle a bit while I grind chain..:bang:

 

[tramp bushler]

Couple shots of some large cottonwood clumps I took down that make my 084 look small. Each stump was around 7 by 5 ft. The saw has a 42 in. bar. I used my truck winch to assist getting the stumps over -- the larger one in two pieces.View attachment 261620View attachment 261621View attachment 261622View attachment 261623

Nice Big cottonwood. Nice looking job. . I can not believe how people build buildings under trees that can't stay standing for as long as the building will

 

[floyd]

Does this count? I'm doing another lift with my pole pruner. Got about an hour in Fri after my day job. Last one in this area was done on a pre commercial thin in 91 with my saw. This stand is flat so trim job is even. Over the side is 60%. Few more limbs downhill on those.

Since 91 my grazers have changed from equine to bovine. It has altered my pruning. I leave more crown on anything under 4"dbh. Cows have a long coat. They rub on everything. They don't rub on seedlings or saplings with 70% crown.

This yr they took out 5"cherry trees about 35' tall. Then they ate the leaves. There was only 3 so it didn't kill them.

 

[bitzer]

From a couple weeks ago. All the leaves are gone now and its been 40s and damp during the day, 20s and 30s at night.

This one was leanin WAY out there growin on a rock wall. Back cut over my head. Calks and rocks are no good.

Had to swing this basswood out of the farm field. Yeah I pulled the #### out of it. Better than the clean up for me though. I was amazed that it was sound. Usually they're culverts when they get this big.

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[bert0168]

This one was leanin WAY out there growin on a rock wall. Back cut over my head. Calks and rocks are no good.

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Thanks for all the pictures of your stumps you post. Learn a lot from seeing them.

I'm curious as to how this one fell. What are the mechanics of that cut?

 

[bitzer]

Thanks for all the pictures of your stumps you post. Learn a lot from seeing them.

I'm curious as to how this one fell. What are the mechanics of that cut?

Thank you! It was leaning at about a 45 to the ground so there was only one way it could go. Rather than boring and having it sit down hard as I poked through the far side. I Coosed it. The majority of the wood left was pull wood except along the hinge. You can kind of tell where. I nipped out the heart to eliminate the pull there. Any compression wood you can take out of hard leaners helps.

 

[tramp bushler]

Your gonna need springboards if you keep that up. Ya get used to corks on rock
Very nice looking work as usual. !!!!!!

 

[056kid]

Thank you! It was leaning at about a 45 to the ground so there was only one way it could go. Rather than boring and having it sit down hard as I poked through the far side. I Coosed it. The majority of the wood left was pull wood except along the hinge. You can kind of tell where. I nipped out the heart to eliminate the pull there. Any compression wood you can take out of hard leaners helps.

Sometimes a face kerf until it closes and a back cut is the best for those nasty leaners that are gonna flop where they want nomatter what ya do. If your saws cuttin good you can just about eliminate pull and like you said with the com wood gone barber chair is unlikely. Although it can twist and **** like that but not likely.

 

[Driver625]

Fubar

My ugly stump of the day. Cut above the barbed wire. Had a big lean to it. Did I bore or put a Coos Bay to it? No, like a dope. Didn't chair but pulled fiber. I'm so ashamed. All the limbs are holding it up on the stump, pulled it off with my tractor.

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[hammerlogging]

being white oak didn't give you a break either

 

[TreeGuyHR]

Barbed wire? So? I cut a white oak that had a cattle fence and at least three nails --- only took three chains. It took one chain to cut a 16 penny nail -- the long way! 046 will keep cutting if you cut the nail the SHORT way... :msp_sneaky:

Technically a residential job, but I did eventually did fell the tree. The guy didn't want a 5 ft. stump -- and I learned to add more to the bid for old yard trees with a nail or two showing (and there was just a piece or two of wire-- couldn't tell there was an an entire fence in there!

 

[Driver625]

I wasn't going to cut through the wire for any reason, 28" loops are spendy. I don't care what kind of stump my wife wanted.:msp_biggrin: She said it looked menacing hanging out over the field where the kids play, so I'm going to buck it up, smash it into little pieces and burn it. That should teach it to look menacing to my better half.

 

[tramp bushler]

A mans gotta do what he's gotta do t keep peace at home.