Show us your stumps!

[Bill G]

648 grapple skidder you can dig at them roots and push them over but your right the good ones are in crazy spots

My brother has a 548G grapple and a couple newer ones. I was down to day scouting some trees we could not get to last winter. We got in a hell of a fix trying to get an Ash out last winter. I told him he needed to hang the iron but he would not listen. About a week later one of the skidders was laying on its top four wheels in the air at the bottom of a ravine. He hung the iron then.

 

[rwoods]

Ouch.

Ron

 

[Kodiak Kid]

This is the stump from that big snag I cut the other day. 3' 10" The entire snag wasn't quite mulch, but it was entirely all punk. I really don't like cutting big tall snags. Never have! They are just too sketchy! Plain and simple. A faller really must be aware of his surroundings and have several escape routes at the ready!

 

[Kodiak Kid]

This is one side off a decent size double that was entirely gone with the exception of the sap ring! Hollow and mulch! I was s**ting bricks and sweating bullets facing up this hazard, as I was doing it above my head and under its heavy lean! I couldn't bore the back side to test for soundness without compromising what little wood was left holding after face up! Both trees off the stump. Stihl had all their crown! Very deceiving!

I apologize fir the dark photos. The pictures were taken right at day break.


Cut safe, stay sharp, and be aware!

 

[Old-Feller]

Pardon the duh looking selfie, it was cold, but it was a good day cutting aspen. The cool looking basswood stump was after flush cutting the quad stump down. I'll get some more pics later, but these were some good ones I had on my phone. As for the bad shots, hangs, or the ones I've lost over backwards, we won't talk about those. lol.

Wow! Michigan Aspen looks nothing like "UTAH" Aspen? Utah Aspen has a silvery white bark.

 

[chipper1]

Wow! Michigan Aspen looks nothing like "UTAH" Aspen? Utah Aspen has a silvery white bark.

Yeah, everything's better here .
Aspen, cottonwood, poplar are all in the same genus, populus(poplar also called popple by many). Here(MI) many call them poplar or cottonwood, he's not the norm in that aspect, I like to call them Aspen just to mess with people myself lol.

 

[Old-Feller]

Here is what ours looks like! The root system is all inter-connected. Quaking aspen

 

[Sierra_rider]

This is one side off a decent size double that was entirely gone with the exception of the sap ring! Hollow and mulch! I was s**ting bricks and sweating bullets facing up this hazard, as I was doing it above my head and under its heavy lean! I couldn't bore the back side to test for soundness without compromising what little wood was left holding after face up! Both trees off the stump. Stihl had all their crown! Very deceiving!

I apologize fir the dark photos. The pictures were taken right at day break.
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Cut safe, stay sharp, and be aware!

You running your 660 until you get your new 661 properly accessorized? I pulled my ported/machined 066 out the other day for some falling, I forgot how awesome those saws are. It pulls a 36" with an 8 pin with authority.

 

[Leeroy]

Yeah, everything's better here .
Aspen, cottonwood, poplar are all in the same genus, populus(poplar also called popple by many). Here(MI) many call them poplar or cottonwood, he's not the norm in that aspect, I like to call them Aspen just to mess with people myself lol

Do any Michiganers use the ever popular "popular" trees? Lol

 

[chipper1]

Do any Michiganers use the ever popular "popular" trees? Lol

I've heard that many times lol.
Same guys who sell wood by the chord .

Here is what ours looks like! The root system is all inter-connected. Quaking aspen

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Beautiful.
If I was in there, they'd be quaking.

 

[Sierra_rider]

This time of the year is always awesome because of the Aspens. They're just starting to turn color up in the high country.

 

[chipper1]

You running your 660 until you get your new 661 properly accessorized? I pulled my ported/machined 066 out the other day for some falling, I forgot how awesome those saws are. It pulls a 36" with an 8 pin with authority.

Did someone say 660. I've had a few, but I only used them a few times a yr. Most everything I do can easily be done with a ported 70cc saw, even if I need to run a 36" on it, which I'll probably do tomorrow, I'll try to get a few pics, it's a bit nasty, but nothing like this one . Good thing the side I needed it to go was alive, I stopped as soon as she started spraying brown wood, glad I did.



Even found a kid in the stump after I pulled all the junk out to flush cut it lol.

 

[Sierra_rider]

Did someone say 660. I've had a few, but I only used them a few times a yr. Most everything I do can easily be done with a ported 70cc saw, even if I need to run a 36" on it, which I'll probably do tomorrow, I'll try to get a few pics, it's a bit nasty, but nothing like this one . Good thing the side I needed it to go was alive, I stopped as soon as she started spraying brown wood, glad I did.
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Even found a kid in the stump after I pulled all the junk out to flush cut it lol.

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I can see why that tree needed to come out, nice work.

My falling partner got me a couple of pics from the last time I took the 066 out cutting. I don't pull it out often, but I love running it when I get to cut larger timber...I run a 36" almost exclusively on mine. I do have a 42" for it, but I rarely run that.

I'm 6'1" for reference, sorry for the blur, but I prefer to keep my face and who I work for, anonymous.

 

[chipper1]

I can see why that tree needed to come out, nice work.

My falling partner got me a couple of pics from the last time I took the 066 out cutting. I don't pull it out often, but I love running it when I get to cut larger timber...I run a 36" almost exclusively on mine. I do have a 42" for it, but I rarely run that.

I'm 6'1" for reference, sorry for the blur, but I prefer to keep my face and who I work for, anonymous.

Nice, but you need to keep your head up when the crane is lifting those tops over your head .
I don't do that many big trees and most are compromised or softwoods so they cut fairly easily. The main place I find myself wanting a larger bar is on when I don't want to be on the low side or theres a fence or some other obstacle in the way where I can't get around the back side or I'd be boxed in even on the high side.
Good example here. This one was full of all sorts of debris, dang city folk, then again I've done trees in the country where the kids filled them with rocks where a stem broke off . This one also had quite a few nails I hit on the upper portion, I'm guessing a fort of some sort.



Here's all the lower I went with the stump, they were still pleased as it really opened up the back yard/parking and it was hanging over the house too.



I was proud of my calculations on the stem, didn't even touch the cement pad .



But as the good book says, pride comes before the "fall", and I ended up swinging(by a rope) another tree right onto my truck on this job . What do they call that, the school of hard knocks .

 

[Old-Feller]

Nice, but you need to keep your head up when the crane is lifting those tops over your head .
I don't do that many big trees and most are compromised or softwoods so they cut fairly easily. The main place I find myself wanting a larger bar is on when I don't want to be on the low side or theres a fence or some other obstacle in the way where I can't get around the back side or I'd be boxed in even on the high side.
Good example here. This one was full of all sorts of debris, dang city folk, then again I've done trees in the country where the kids filled them with rocks where a stem broke off . This one also had quite a few nails I hit on the upper portion, I'm guessing a fort of some sort.

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Here's all the lower I went with the stump, they were still pleased as it really opened up the back yard/parking and it was hanging over the house too.

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I was proud of my calculations on the stem, didn't even touch the cement pad .

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But as the good book says, pride comes before the "fall", and I ended up swinging(by a rope) another tree right onto my truck on this job . What do they call that, the school of hard knocks .

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Look at the BRIGHT SIDE, At least it was YOUR TRUCK!!

 

[Bill G]

But as the good book says, pride comes before the "fall", and I ended up swinging(by a rope) another tree right onto my truck on this job . What do they call that, the school of hard knocks .

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Well the way I see it is posting the description along with a pic of a miscalculation is a true measure of a man/woman. Some would have left the above portion out but a true man like yourself showed the good and the shall we say "not so good" I commend you for that.

 

[Bill G]

Look at the BRIGHT SIDE, At least it was YOUR TRUCK!!

100% TRUE

 

[chipper1]

Look at the BRIGHT SIDE, At least it was YOUR TRUCK!!

It's much like when I backed a truck into a shipping container in the yard(at a company I worked for), I walked in and got the safety guy and showed him, he said why do you seem so happy about it, well I'm a new driver and it's my first accident, noone was hurt, I didn't get a ticket, and the truck won't need to be towed to the yard, what's not to be happy about .

Well the way I see it is posting the description along with a pic of a miscalculation is a true measure of a man/woman. Some would have left the above portion out but a true man like yourself showed the good and the shall we say "not so good" I commend you for that.

If you never screw up, your either Jesus or a liar .
It doesn't bother me if someone knows I screwed up, I like to say "I've messed up more times than most people ever will, but because of it, I can now do more things than most people will ever be able to do".
Many people doubt my experience, I think it mainly comes from their lack not willingness to try things themselves. As a teacher, I'm sure you know what I mean when I say, you can go to school for an education or you can learn to do something yourself, either way will cost you; one difference is when you do it yourself, you get experience. Experience is what you get when things don't go as planned, I have lots of experience .

 

[Bill G]

As you said if you never screw up you are either Jesus or a liar. I do not want to get biblical but the message rings true in many situations.

Proverbs 24:16-18
16 For a righteous man may fall seven times
And rise again,
But the wicked shall fall by calamity.​

17 Do not rejoice when your enemy falls,
And do not let your heart be glad when he stumbles;
18 Lest the Lord see it, and [a]it displease Him,
And He turn away His wrath from him.

 

[chipper1]

As you said if you never screw up you are either Jesus or a liar. I do not want to get biblical but the message rings true in many situations.

Proverbs 24:16-18​

16 For a righteous man may fall seven times​

And rise again,​

But the wicked shall fall by calamity.​

17 Do not rejoice when your enemy falls,
And do not let your heart be glad when he stumbles;
18 Lest the Lord see it, and [a]it displease Him,
And He turn away His wrath from him.

Reported, this belongs in the "Falling " thread .