I AM crazy!

[Peacock]

It looks like one of those trees that makes your heart beat hard in your throat until it's on the ground and then your heart beats even harder, in your throat, when you think of what could have gone wrong.

Maybe your a little crazy, but I think most of us are.

I planned to use wedges to bring it over. As I was pounding them in I heard it crack and I signaled to my dad on the tractor and he gave a little tug. I was across the road 80 feet away when the tree literally exploded. Broke the stump and just fell apart as it rocked off the stump.....sure am glad I had that strap on there, though it is in 3 pieces now!:help:

 

[Sprig]

I planned to use wedges to bring it over. As I was pounding them in I heard it crack and I signaled to my dad on the tractor and he gave a little tug. I was across the road 80 feet away when the tree literally exploded. Broke the stump and just fell apart as it rocked off the stump.....sure am glad I had that strap on there, though it is in 3 pieces now!:help:

Iyiyi, good chains, big wrap, cinch. Please guys, don't expect pizzazzed nylon straps to do the work, I've found their 'shock value' to be severely lacking: Its your life, don't be messin' with it eh! I do admit to wrapping 1" crap rope 6+ times around small split trunks (like 'whipping'), in retrospect I was probably lucky.......... (piece of snapping 1/4 poly near took off one of my fingers one day whilst boating, no joke, I have a permenant 6" scar across the outside of my bicept, makes for good bs stories 'Oh ya, the gunfight of '76, I was there........gah.).

Nuff said.

 

[Log Splitter]

It's the right front.....

Yeah, it's time for a tube on that one. The tractor is actually borrowed from the in-laws, but I use it as needed.

Ah yeah, 4WD, I see now. Funny, I was thinking that tire was mounted backwards.

My Kubota is 4WD too, but the diesel is only 26 hp. It seems you've got me beat on both tractor HP and the size of your largest saw.

Boy, it gets expensive trying to keep up with everybody on this site.

 

[Peacock]

Ah yeah, 4WD, I see now. Funny, I was thinking that tire was mounted backwards.

My Kubota is 4WD too, but the diesel is only 26 hp. It seems you've got me beat on both tractor HP and the size of your largest saw.

Boy, it gets expensive trying to keep up with everybody on this site.

Don't look now, but I'm eyeing a 660!

PS-It isn't my tractor!

I'd love to have a Kubota, heard nothing but good things about them.

 

[Peacock]

Iyiyi, good chains, big wrap, cinch. Please guys, don't expect pizzazzed nylon straps to do the work, I've found their 'shock value' to be severely lacking: Its your life, don't be messin' with it eh! I do admit to wrapping 1" crap rope 6+ times around small split trunks (like 'whipping'), in retrospect I was probably lucky.......... (piece of snapping 1/4 poly near took off one of my fingers one day whilst boating, no joke, I have a permenant 6" scar across the outside of my bicept, makes for good bs stories 'Oh ya, the gunfight of '76, I was there........gah.).

Nuff said.

I only asked it to hold tension, not stay together after the tree fell. It did it's intended job as far as I see it!

 

[Sprig]

I only asked it to hold tension, not stay together after the tree fell. It did it's intended job as far as I see it!

Oh good good, my bad fer not understanding it (but ya didn't 'splain Lucy!), still, ya did fine imho, so, there.