Show us your stumps!

[jblnut]

What a mess this one was. It was fairly rotten on the face cut side and went over a little sooner than expected but it fell exactly where I wanted it to go and ended well.


2nd tree of the day was also a bit of a mess. I apparently can’t keep my saw level and ended up with the back cut lower than the face cut. This one took a fair bit of wedging to go the way I wanted but in the end I won !!


These three were uneventful. I got a little trigger happy with the big one in the background when it was already well on its way over. I strapped the small one in the foreground as it appeared to have a few cracks running up the trunk.

 

[chipper1]

1 stick o dynamite too many?

I was wondering if they have the drone problem over there across the pond .

 

[Billhook]

1 stick o dynamite too many?

Actually storm damage on a hollow Ash. Inside we were not happy to discover a large nest of Yellowjackets!

 

[Dacha]

What i did today.


Second time my saw got pinched. I called it a day.

 

[J D]

From what I see there's a good reason your saws getting pinched.
Probably be a good idea to seek a bit of guidance regarding your felling cuts before you decide to drop anything significantly bigger too

 

[Billhook]

Grey squirrel, showing us how to do a felling cut without a chain saw in a desperate bid to feast on some peanuts!

 

[Billhook]

 

[Billhook]

English Elm

 

[Billhook]

Another English Elm. succumbed to Dutch Elm disease, too big for me to deal with so I hired some professionals






Sorry no stump photo, but sad to see such a mighty parkland tree go. We had dozens on the farm in the 1970s but only one left now. There are many saplings in the hedges but they only live for about fifteen years then the bark cracks and the beetles go in taking the fungus with them

 

[Billhook]

 

[Billhook]

More sadness on the farm as the rain pours down and the tree roots are weakened followed by a mighty North Wind, this lovely Scots Pine came down

 

[Billhook]

I was a bit wary of cutting the tree as there was a very big root ball and I have seen videos of people being seriously hurt when they flip back, but the Teleporter was a good anchor and I took a twenty foot log away three foot diameter . Lucas Mill should easily handle it

 

[Billhook]

The shame about the pine was the fact that for years it provided shelter for the little Tawny Owl chicks as they left their nest box in a tree nearby

 

[TBurt2168]

Fir tree brought down today for some firewood for my house and shop