Skeans
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A good siz wheel will pull roots and stumps like that as well.
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Falling pics 11/25/09
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bitzer
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The area you have circled is where I trimmed off the pull wood after the tree was on the ground.
bitzer
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You're pretty close Jon. Conventional face. Gutted the heart. Coos bay backcut. I back-barred the near side first from back to the hinge (face and near quarter of backcut all done on my knees from same side). Then got up and walked to the far side, set the tip just behind the hinge and back-barred toward the center, eventually standing directly behind the tree. Note the small plug of wood very back, center that I did not get cut in time. This tree would be bored 100 percent of the time by any timber cutter up here. It had enough top weight it was only going one way and being white oak(super splitty). I snapped a pic of this stump because it was super clean in the cuts matching on a coos bay. This cut is also why I only bore about 3 trees a year.
The second stump was a jump. I was going to post it in a thread where a guy was talking about boring 6-8" leaners. I wanted to impress the fact on him that you should be able to just snip em off. I thought that might be a little ******* tho.
Oh and we pronounce it *******, WI Jon!
bitzer
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The tree was dead as you can tell by the punky roots. I may have had to wedge to start this one. Can't remember. I left a lot of wood for it to pull. I was saving it from falling into a creek.
treeslayer2003
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ah, you too hate to clean out smz lol.
bitzer
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Just a few recent pics.
Super clean hard maple for this size. Had to jack it to keep it off of the indian burials.
Tryin something new.
I cut this guys tail off the day before when buckin. I knew I hit a **** cuz of the fur that pulled out of the cut and blood on the bar. Didn't get around to pickn logs up til the next day. I shook him out and he went bookin out of there. I bet his ass is still sore.
Different kind of quiz for Huskstihl. How many stiches?! This is from a few months ago. Its a scar already.
Super clean hard maple for this size. Had to jack it to keep it off of the indian burials.
Tryin something new.
I cut this guys tail off the day before when buckin. I knew I hit a **** cuz of the fur that pulled out of the cut and blood on the bar. Didn't get around to pickn logs up til the next day. I shook him out and he went bookin out of there. I bet his ass is still sore.
Different kind of quiz for Huskstihl. How many stiches?! This is from a few months ago. Its a scar already.
HuskStihl
Chairin'em for the sound
I could sew that with 4 "horizontal mattress" stitches with a 4-0 nylon. Something like this
Hot dang yo!
bitzer
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Where did you get pictures of my testicle reduction surgery? It took him six. Thats what the wife said anyway. I didnt count em. Curious how I did it?
treeslayer2003
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doesn't look like a saw cut
bitzer
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Technically was. I was bucking at chest height or so. Saw got pinched on split wood i didn't see. Tried to free it with a wedge, but realized i was going to need to cut the saw out. So in one quick motion i yanked the wedge out and pulled back dragging my elbow across the stuck chain. It cut through a cotton long sleeve and heavy flannel no problem. The doc said i was one layer away from muscle damage. It barely bled. I covered it good and put pressure on it with and old sock pulled over my arm and went back to cutting. After a few more trees my head was clearly not in it so i left for the day. Drove the 100 miles home and then got stiched up. I was super pist at myself.
treeslayer2003
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ah i see. cut my knuckles to the bone filing chain.......decided to wear gloves. chain is sharp or its no good.
you got it pretty good there.
you got it pretty good there.
fireman33
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Had a damn cottonwood go sideways on me today. A superman dive and a hit to my pride were the immediate actions; an hour or so bucking and flipping limbs and rounds back over the property line were less immediate. I wish I'd gotten pics but I was too busy cleaning up my mess to bother. I don't like cottonwood. Short, weak, brittle fibers and heavy tops don't mix. I also don't much like bucking rounds to stand on to keep my feet out of water. Or shortening stumps for footholds. Did I mention that I was cutting on the edge of a pond? Yard jobs. I can see why arborists are so grumpy.
Did you hit any barbecue grills or picnic tables?
treeslayer2003
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hahaha, welcome to my world Nate. you do enough of those you'll figure out a way to swing um. i hate pickin up sticks.........
bitzer
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No, but that's only because there weren't any there. I did clobber hell out of one of the other trees I was gonna cut, a rotten piece of forked crap... which saved me the cutting. So, y'know, not a total loss.
The ones before and after swung just fine! This one was just a jerk. I musta pissed in its Wheaties or something.
happy little Dougie from Saturday.
Nice clean stump ya made there.
