Show us your stumps!

[VW Splitter]

Not very tall, but the largest diameter tree I’ve ever cut. 71”

 

[Billhook]

This is one I had to think about long and hard before cutting it. Probably one of the most dangerous trees I’ve stuck a saw in. A huge sycamore tree, heavy leaner, hollow and burnt after a fire in the area. 1/3 of the trunk was already gone. Was falling it just a little to the left of the lean. I really thought it would fall just as soon as I started sawing. Did a lot of sawing before it let go. Stump measured 54” x 11”. Good lord was looking after me.

Reaction wood, tree develops this incredibly hard timber to compensate for its loss on the other side

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

 

[Kodiak Kid]

74 inch Sitka Spruce with a bit of but swell. Around 100 foot tall and lack of decent scale.
60+ inch Sitka Spruce. 80 to 90 foot and poor scale.
Sitka Spruce 50 plus inches. 100' with decent scale.
Cut safe, stay sharp, and be aware!

 

[Backyard Lumberjack]

74 inch Sitka Spruce with a bit of but swell. Around 100 foot tall and lack of decent scale. View attachment 1003311View attachment 1003307View attachment 1003305
60+ inch Sitka Spruce. 80 to 90 foot and poor scale.View attachment 1003308
Sitka Spruce 50 plus inches. 100' with decent scale.View attachment 1003309
Cut safe, stay sharp, and be aware!

AK pix!!!

you da man there, KK!!!

 

[Kodiak Kid]

AK pix!!!

you da man there, KK!!!

Thanks bud! Glad you like the pics! I posted some more AK pics this evening on "the scrounge"

 

[Arbor1]

Great views of your work. I don't see how some of the trees fell so precisely. This looks like a science, but also is viewed as an art.

 

[Sierra_rider]

My only recent falling pics, 36" dead doug fir. Before someone chides me for my deep undercut, the top was very sketchy and the tree was perfectly balanced w/no discernable lean. I used wedges, but really only to chase my back cut...the deep face was enough to get it to go over. The back cut wasn't exactly my finest work, but I had to double cut both cuts.

 

[Section VIII]

Fell two standing dead with only a few branches at the crown this morning.

First one was hollow from ~8" below the ground (three sections of the trunk were holding the tree up like a tripod) up to ~9' high. I didn't realize it was hollow as high as it was until after I felled it. Only thing that helped me was it was slightly leaning already in the direction I needed it to go which is good because I couldn't use wedges due to the rot.

The photos I attached were from the second tree (didn't think to take any photos at first because I had to get both trees down and bucked by 12:30 pm). ~23"-24" DBH.

Power line was ~24' behind the back cut. The shed and camper was too the left and flowers, shrubs, and fruit trees were to the right (homeowner wanted to keep them undamaged). There was nothing to use as a redirect. I cut it high since I was trying to avoid multiple nails, eye/circle bolts, and easily visible since it was close to the gravel driveway. That and I can't bend over as much as I used to. I dropped it pretty much where I wanted it so it didn't clip the front porch. Ended up being close though to the house. I cut too far into the hinge than I intended but it worked and the tree had a little rot on one side. Ended up using five wedges due to the back lean/canopy mostly in the opposite direction than I needed it to go. Canopy was mostly all rotted and shattered into several pieces when it hit the ground.

Used my 441 C-M. Got both trees bucked and stacked to split at a later date.

 

[Pioneer]

20" spruce leaning back toward the buildings. Roped and wedged with the wind in my favor.




Big oak, 36x16". Two trees grew together to form one large one. Dry rot had it split and break off ten feet up. Cut the rest off at an angle, weird but it worked. Took us 3 afternoons to split the wood. Probably 2 cords from the one tree.

 

[Kodiak Kid]

Dooooe!!!

 

[chipper1]

My only recent falling pics, 36" dead doug fir. Before someone chides me for my deep undercut, the top was very sketchy and the tree was perfectly balanced w/no discernable lean. I used wedges, but really only to chase my back cut...the deep face was enough to get it to go over. The back cut wasn't exactly my finest work, but I had to double cut both cuts.

Nice job man.
Plenty of reasons to make a deep or even what many would say is an excessively deep face, hard for me to know what's going on there. There was one on the first page of this thread iirc, that I would have made much deeper than the poster did, but that's based on me sitting here in my living room lol.

 

[Kodiak Kid]

5 foot old growth Sitka Spruce.

 

[chipper1]

5 foot old growth Sitka Spruce. View attachment 1021573

Looks good bro.
How often are you touching up your chains, theres so much crap on those things

 

[Kodiak Kid]

Looks good bro.
How often are you touching up your chains, theres so much crap on those things

Thanks a lot Brett! Much appreciated!

Yeah all kinds of stuff grows on timber in an old growth forest. The trees themselves have micro environments on them! But the volcanic ash is the chains biggest enemy! Right now the ash isn't to bad where we're cut'n. On average I swap chains about every couple hours. Pretty much three chains a day. I haven't had to touch up with the square file yet this season. I've been strictly running ground semi skip. That'll all change once it gets colder and the wood and ash start to freeze! I'll be touching up with a square file about every other tank starting late fall then eventually go to strictly a round file tune during the peek of winter.
As of now. I grind anywhere from two to three chains each morning while having coffee and getting my morning arboristsite chat in with you guy's before I head into the woods fir work.



Be safe out there bud!

 

[Campbellcontractlogging]

You want stumps I’ll give you stumps!

 

[Campbellcontractlogging]

Stumps away.

 

[Campbellcontractlogging]

Thanks a lot Brett! Much appreciated!

Yeah all kinds of stuff grows on timber in an old growth forest. The trees themselves have micro environments on them! But the volcanic ash is the chains biggest enemy! Right now the ash isn't to bad where we're cut'n. On average I swap chains about every couple hours. Pretty much three chains a day. I haven't had to touch up with the square file yet this season. I've been strictly running ground semi skip. That'll all change once it gets colder and the wood and ash start to freeze! I'll be touching up with a square file about every other tank starting late fall then eventually go to strictly a round file tune during the peek of winter.
As of now. I grind anywhere from two to three chains each morning while having coffee and getting my morning arboristsite chat in with you guy's before I head into the woods fir work.

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Be safe out there bud!

Damn!

 

[Kodiak Kid]

You want stumps I’ll give you stumps!

LMAO! Nice work!

Here's one for ya!

With a plug cut, a couple relief cuts, ten pounds of tannerite, and the squeeze of a trigger. You can chair a four foot snag into a "Blown Throne"!

A chair fit for a king!

 

[J D]

You want stumps I’ll give you stumps!

Those stumps ain't right... the more you look the worse it gets