The working man, and chainsaw thread!!!!!!!!!

[NORMZILLA44]

Yep I agree great info. Still cutting with the forestry crews. Man I was tired, and sore this last weekend. Starting to bounce back today I think.

 

[madhatte]

My last week or so has been all about storm clean-up. Here's some bits of the fun. These are all landscape trees and not in a proper forest, so the challenge to me was keeping them off of buildings and cars.

Here's a red oak ~24" on the stump. This one fit in a narrow space between a building and a parking lot. Wish I'd thought to get a pic of it standing.

Here's another red oak a couple hundred feet away on another side of the same building. That's a big transformer under the right side of it. Missed both.

Another view:

Here's a partial video. Stupid camera battery died.

[video=youtube_share;TOK7SOtbcNg]http://youtu.be/TOK7SOtbcNg[/video]

A fir in a tight space:

a sweetgum:

and a hickory (thanks, 056kid for the ID):

Got a couple sycamores left to drop and this job will be done. It's been fun cutting unfamiliar species in unfamiliar spaces.

 

[NORMZILLA44]

Great stuff Nathan!! Yeah man, and we got something in common, me and my gang are fellow tree dismantlers! Tight quarters, and places bull rope rigging, porta wrap, blocks. Always different, and interesting. We also get some nice falling clear jobs from time to time, but most of it is disecting.

 

[HorseFaller]

Okay Madhatte got to ask. What is the other slice out of your face cut for? This may very well be a greenie question, but with all the sis wheel talk in falling picks. I thought I had that figured but this makes me wonder. Course it could just be a flare you cut off or a different type of a Dutchmen. Sorry to ask, but.

 

[madhatte]

Great stuff Nathan!! Yeah man, and we got something in common, me and my gang are fellow tree dismantlers! Tight quarters, and places bull rope rigging, porta wrap, blocks. Always different, and interesting. We also get some nice falling clear jobs from time to time, but most of it is disecting.

I WISH we had rigging and stuff. This job was all about faces and wedges. Walked away from a few because I just couldn't see a safe lay. Once they were on the ground, we pieced 'em up and left them for the loader. Had one bumped over when it was convenient for the operator. We are days ahead of them.

Okay Madhatte got to ask. What is the other slice out of your face cut for? This may very well be a greenie question, but with all the sis wheel talk in falling picks. I thought I had that figured but this makes me wonder. Course it could just be a flare you cut off or a different type of a Dutchmen. Sorry to ask, but.

Simple: them's HARD hardwoods, and my chains are all ground for softwoods. I cut the root flare off to make my powerhead's power go further. I would adjust my chains as necessary if I was going to be cutting that type of wood more. Only takes a few seconds and makes a big difference in cutting as well as wedging efficiency. I'm sure there are better ways to accomplish the same but this is what I came up with.

NOTE: these cuts did not affect the face or the fall at all. They were not for steering the tree but for cheating power out of the saw.

EDIT: here's another following the same logic. 34" stump is reduced to 27", 28" bar on a MS440. I don't like to high-stump because they would want me to flush-cut them later and I don't want to rock my chains. Low stumps save hassles.

 

[RandyMac]

fiber puller

:hmm3grin2orange:

 

[madhatte]

Now, how did I know YOU were gonna show up and say that?

 

[HorseFaller]

Just checking. Thanks man. Had just never seen it in the face cut is all


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I am here: http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=48.916347,-122.121209

 

[RandyMac]

Now, how did I know YOU were gonna show up and say that?

At your service.

 

[NORMZILLA44]

Now, how did I know YOU were gonna show up and say that?

He let you off easy, thought for sure it was going to be why cheat inches. Go six cubes LOL! He must have been in a good mood LOL! Carry on Nathan nice stumps, and technique:msp_thumbup:

 

[NHlocal]

...I finally got the video clip from the home owner on a job I did last fall, I got away with two different :msp_scared: "WOW, that
could've ended a whole worse" :msp_scared:...take a look and feel free to comment and/or criticize, I appreciate any and all of it.

Topping and Dropping Two Red Oaks Beside The Barn..wmv - YouTube

Work safe! ::thumbsup::

 

[madhatte]

why cheat inches. Go six cubes LOL! He must have been in a good mood

He's right, of course. No replacement for displacement. I work with what I have, y'know? That includes feeble muscles and plastic saws...

 

[RandyMac]

He's right, of course. No replacement for displacement. I work with what I have, y'know? That includes feeble muscles and plastic saws...

buck up, buttercup

 

[NORMZILLA44]

LOL! Good shiat Nathan! I'm knowing the Randy lingo pretty good eh? LOL! Working with what you got what I have seen is pretty good stuff my friend! I am impressed:msp_thumbsup: Randy good video on your tree take down. I think on your top it did not look like it needed to be tied off. You should have been able to put it on that lawn were the tree fell. If you can't face it and fall it without help, rope it, and pull it were you want it. Even if you have to top it higher, sometimes we have to chunk em out, even firewood size. Could not tell if you were still tied off while you topped it, or just had a flip line. Always be tied off or both, and never use the rope you are tied off too. Always have two ropes, and sperate them. And when that top starts to go set back in to your flip line, and did in with the spurs. Also if you had to tie the top off that rope should have been below you. There are many options that come with time, and experience, and trial and errors. Not ripping up on you, but trying to help, because there was some good there, and your technique has some good. The tree falling by the barn I could not tell if you had a wedge, did not see one saw you pulled it, but you don't want it to set back. I did not see your stump well, but looked like to much holding wood was cut, that thing broke free too fast, and lost the steering to quick. More holding wood, and more stump shot. Also we have had a few next to buildings, that sometimes could roll and we have used what we call a dead man, where we use Bull rope, and tie the butt off to another tree, or stump so when the tree falls if it rolls, the bull rope will catch the butt of the tree, and stop it, you can also stump it higher, and tie it off to it's own stump. Look at John topping this fir, over 100 plus feet up, he set back, and dug in, you should have seen the catapult on this one. Good vid, and you got some experience! You can also drop tops, and limbs with the porta wrap like we got, and let your rope run, and then catch.

 

[HorseFaller]

...I finally got the video clip from the home owner on a job I did last fall, I got away with two different :msp_scared: "WOW, that
could've ended a whole worse" :msp_scared:...take a look and feel free to comment and/or criticize, I appreciate any and all of it.

Topping and Dropping Two Red Oaks Beside The Barn..wmv - YouTube

Work safe! ::thumbsup::

Might I suggest a portawrap and a ground guy.

 

[RandyMac]

Seems to me that I have a good blackmail photo of Nate. Now where is that?

 

[madhatte]

Seems to me that I have a good blackmail photo of Nate. Now where is that?

Oh no you don't, Red Hat!

 

[NORMZILLA44]

Oh you two LOL! Now I gotta see the photo!:biggrin:

 

[RandyMac]

Oh no you don't, Red Hat!

Hmmmm....there is red in that photo.

 

[NORMZILLA44]

Speaking of blackmail photo, Jeanie was on her way home last night, and 101 was shut down just north of Cloverdale. A dude failed a suicide attempt driving off the Cloverdale grade. So he then strips to nakedness, and run down the freeway toward on coming cars. Took five fireman to tackle him, or play pickle if you will!