saved a house

[tony marks]

went to take a pine dn that was described as 8 inches .. turned out to be to wide for the 16 inch bar to fell rite.. on top of that the holding wood was in rot to the point that if hehad took the chance hisself it most likely would have landed on his house..as it was.. i had to put my thinking cap on to keep things going rite myself..it went good,so his money was well spent. just scares me if he had tried it himself..2 small kids etc.he had an poulan something so i tried to show him how to fell .. i think he understood.no biggee ,just felt good when i left..any stoiries like this anyone.. where u actually probably saved somebodies house..still gotta sharpen my saw tho as thw base was full of dirt ingrained into the wood by bugs..

 

[fishhuntcutwood]

Not a house, but a guy's face, and probably his life. I was out helping a guy at work clear some of his newly bought property. He had a couple of alders that were blowdowns, still attached to the root, tangled in other trees, and on an extremely steep grade. Kinda the same thing, he had his Wildthing and was just going walk up to it, and cut down from the top, and stand behind the tree and have at it. I stopped him just as he was starting his cut, and showed him how to cut a relief notch in the bottom and then to come in from the other side of the tree, as the remaining, rooted portion was loaded and under tension, and would have nocked him on his butt when the cut was made, that is if the tree chairing didn't kill him first. Made me feel good, as he saw what happened as I finished the cut, the rooted part shot out about two feet in the direction where was previously standing, the felled portion twisted and fell down the hill the rest of the way, and didn't chair because of my undercut. He said, "Wow. Thanks man. That would have hurt."

Felt good to have shown him that.

Jeff

 

[runninghot]

Not a house or a guy, but some pigs. Got a call to clear out a tree that was leaning in the "wrong direction". It turned out to be a huge old goosed out Poplar with heavy back lean over a pig house. When I saw it I couldn't believe it was still standing, with a big canopy and almost nothing there at the stump. The power company had told the farmer that if it falls on it's own accord and takes out the lines, it is their responsibility, but if he cuts it and it clips the lines, he pays. Nobody mentioned the pigs! I set up for the job with two cables pulled by two backhoes, then the wind came up, so I had to sleep on it with thoughts of the stump collapsing when I started to cut. The next day it went as planned, and took every bit of the 42" bar to get it over. Some side drift on the way down and it took out an Acacia (more firewood). Funny thing about that tree, rotten all the way at the stump like that, but fifteen feet above it all turned back into healthy way on up to a broad canopy. After that we celebrated with a barbecue.....roasted pork!