It was time to make the saw work today - I needed to drop this mess:
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This was the tree I hung the kids swing in when we moved in, but the ash yellows have got to it and it's constantly dropping branches, some of them quite large. It's gonna trash a vehicle eventually. I took off some of those branches that I could, so as to shift the weight to the downhill side. Then I took this left one just to reduce the mass, as I could not be sure if there were vertical cracks between any of those different sections.
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It came down where I wanted it to:
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What a mes to clean up! I got to spend time with the 62cc clone on the bigger end:
Not going to win any races but I'm more than happy with it. This was round ground chisel as I had just dropped my square ground loop into the dirt on the cut before.