Exactly. The first couple of entries are just an expense. It's a long game to make a buck.
Falling pics 11/25/09
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Exactly. The first couple of entries are just an expense. It's a long game to make a buck.
So I cut a hole, a couple smaller ash got hung up. I couldn't go any further as the conifers is the back ground are 20' past the property line.
As you know trees on the edge of the bush lean outwards, so I couldn't drop anymore,
What I did fall, allowed the crown to hit the ground.
I can't explain why I wasn't cutting the small ash out of the way to start with.
Sometimes your blinded by your own prepositions. We all do it.
Its like when the wife cleans up the living room, and suddenly you can't find your shoes, even though they are by the door where they belong.
Its like when the wife cleans up the living room, and suddenly you can't find your shoes, even though they are by the door where they belong.
Yeck
Trx250r180
Saw polisher
Playing tennis ?
Trx250r180
Saw polisher
Millable ? Or firewood ?I had to drop a nice ash from my yard today. Top was split and could land on my neighbors new garage so it had to go.
Skeans
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Have you had the joy of standing on a fence to cut one?
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No, but I've stood on a skidder blade a couple of times when I didn't want to mess around making a spring board.
Skeans
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Done that a time or two same with standing on the back of the shovel and the D7 winch arch nothing I've cared for.
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Box of a Ferd ranger, and still cutting over my head...
Skidder tires, skidder roof, the roof was probably the worst, narrow, slippery, crooked, 9' in the air.
Most of the fence trees I'll try and back bore, or whatever to cut them low, that one had a 2x4 nailed to the back side of it, and I didn't feel like putting yet another fresh chain on...
Spring boards in comparison are far more comfortable, especially with caulks on.
Not falling trees, but for trimming fence rows my grandfather had a grid of metal strips welded on the inside roofs of his 1950’s Dodge farm trucks to somewhat keep them from collapsing. Men stood on top and used bow equipped Homelites and MACs.
Ron
Ron
Skeans
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New toy showed up this morning
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It's pretty.
But does it cut?
But does it cut?
Skeans
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Did some cutting with it this afternoon man the wood flies out of vs the Fabtek which is good in clear cuts where you don't have to worry about leave trees but you can manually feed. Only concern might be the head size but only time will tell as well as talking with the instructor that came out for the weekend to get me going.
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Is this one of those wheel things you speak of?
Just bored on a rainy day. Only dropped one tree - another nice for firewood red oak. Tried to help out at the lot and buck a little but broke my chain early in so just called it a day. Ron
Chep
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Awesome to hear progress in your felling. Making a hole for a tree is a great step in the right direction. The job ends up looking better because it shows you thought about how your timber will fall. Not just bull and jam.
On your ash cutting. That thick hinge is gonna bite you at some point. Ash is def the most explosive wood I work with regularly. Gut the hinge and nip the sapwood off the sides in my experience.
Be safe bro
Awesome to hear progress in your felling. Making a hole for a tree is a great step in the right direction. The job ends up looking better because it shows you thought about how your timber will fall. Not just bull and jam.
On your ash cutting. That thick hinge is gonna bite you at some point. Ash is def the most explosive wood I work with regularly. Gut the hinge and nip the sapwood off the sides in my experience.
Be safe bro
Thanks Chep.Ash is not what I normally work with, so there has been a lot of trials.
I was able to do a siswheel on this tree (I think)it was leaning to the spruce tree on the left and I managed to pull it around. I put a piece of the face cut wedge in the opposite corner.
So my day was 3 trees felled, skid 10-10' -12' logs. 2-16' firewood logs and one whole tree top. Not a bad day for me.
Big block saws are cool yo!
KiwiBro
Mill 'em, nails be damned.
Wheel of (mis)fortune?
