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

[madhatte]

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

Bar oil is red for a purpose. Sometimes gravity assists. That's not blackmail; that's basic physics.

PHTPTPHPTPHPTPHPTPHPTPHPTPHPT!!!

 

[RandyMac]

Bar oil is red for a purpose. Sometimes gravity assists. That's not blackmail; that's basic physics.

PHTPTPHPTPHPTPHPTPHPTPHPTPHPT!!!

just keep thinking that
:hmm3grin2orange:

 

[madhatte]

"Pinch" yourself and make sure you really meant to say that...

 

[RandyMac]

"Pinch" yourself and make sure you really meant to say that...

is that pinch as in open flippy cap?

 

[paccity]

looks good nathan. what are they going to leave the stumps or grind them. at least it's been spring like for weather.

 

[NORMZILLA44]

Been loving the weather here too Frasier, really nice! Burning brush, and a little cutting for us in the am at one of our hunting ranches.

 

[madhatte]

looks good nathan. what are they going to leave the stumps or grind them. at least it's been spring like for weather.

Yeah, they'll be grinding for MONTHS. That is, after the mess is cleaned up. Plenty of stumps are still buried under piled branches.

Note: weren't ever an 064 what had them flippy caps.

 

[paccity]

very good. months? how many trees you knock down?

 

[Rounder]

Thought you'd like this Norm. 660 cutting some real #### timber today. Hope all's well pard.
- Sam

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[RandyMac]

 

[paccity]

oh sh##, i'm bleeding.

 

[RandyMac]

stihls have "that" time of the month...............LMAO!!!!

 

[Eccentric]

oh sh##, i'm bleeding.

Damn flippy caps!

Who's Homelite 540 is that in the background Fraser?

 

[paccity]

don't remember, maybe randy would know.

 

[NORMZILLA44]

Great pics Sam! Doing good thanks brother! Burned brush all day, got some firewood. Tommorow a couple hazard removals, will have pics.

 

[NHlocal]

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.

Hey Norm, I appreciate your pointing all those things out. As I said, on the top the home owner wanted minimal lawn damage so I
tied it off, would've been easier to just let it fall. My mistake was being in a hurry and going way too aggressive. I didn't use my climb-
line to tie it off, had a separate line (bull rope). I had my flipline with one wrap around the trunk when I topped it. What is the advantage
of tying off the rope below me when I topped it? :msp_confused: I had the rope natural crotched around the trunk on a stub (can't see it in the video)
so it would be easy to lower it down. Good call on the holding wood on the second tree, I kept the saw in the cut a bit too long. Don't
know how much help it would've been seeing how much the top caught the other tree. I saw the top was gonna hit when I was up taking
limbs out of it BUT, being in a hurry I didn't want to take the extra time to cut out the limbs that would hit. I said all that to try to let you
know what I was thinking as I was going through the take down. Again, I really appreciate you pointing out where I need to be thinking
different on how I'm working. Also, I don't have any one for ground crew, just me. The home owner helped a little but no way I'm gonna
count on him for any type of "groundie work". :msp_scared: I don't have any one to work with here, just DVD's and videos to learn from.
Your comments are a big help.
Thank you very much!!! ::thumbsup::::thumbsup::::thumbsup::
Work safe. :msp_thumbsup:

 

[madhatte]

very good. months? how many trees you knock down?

Didn't keep a count. Thinkin' ~100? More? Less? Hard to say.

Who's Homelite 540 is that in the background Fraser?

Pretty sure it belongs to Farley9n, GTG host. He's got a lot of really cool toys.

 

[NORMZILLA44]

Cool Randy and just trying to help. Glad you did not take offense, because you are doing good work. I guess maybe more slack in the line, and you would not have to put rope lower for the top. Next time give it more slack, and you will have more room between you and the swinging top. Yeah it is hard, and I am spoiled that way to have help. Maybe you can team up with somebody in the near future, and learn each other a little sure helps having a partner. If you get a porta wrap, and have a ground guy, you can let the rope run-slack and then the top will clear you by plenty, and then lower it as well. My card reader is down, but I have some cool pics from today. We took those two oaks down, and the uprooted one that was leaning against the other tree, we decided if we cut underneath to drop it down would not have been good, because it was limb locked on one side, and was going to roll. So I put a call in to Jeanies's dad that's my future father in law. He lives ten minutes from the job, he brought his truck and winch we put a block in a tree across the pond, and ran the bull rope over to the winch line, and pull it over backwards, away from the house, and everything else.

 

[RandyMac]

Pretty sure it belongs to Farley9n, GTG host. He's got a lot of really cool toys.

He sure does, has two chainsaws that I would dearly love to have, A Jonny 111S and a Solo 680.

 

[parrisw]

Cool Randy and just trying to help. Glad you did not take offense, because you are doing good work. I guess maybe more slack in the line, and you would not have to put rope lower for the top. Next time give it more slack, and you will have more room between you and the swinging top. Yeah it is hard, and I am spoiled that way to have help. Maybe you can team up with somebody in the near future, and learn each other a little sure helps having a partner. If you get a porta wrap, and have a ground guy, you can let the rope run-slack and then the top will clear you by plenty, and then lower it as well. My card reader is down, but I have some cool pics from today. We took those two oaks down, and the uprooted one that was leaning against the other tree, we decided if we cut underneath to drop it down would not have been good, because it was limb locked on one side, and was going to roll. So I put a call in to Jeanies's dad that's my future father in law. He lives ten minutes from the job, he brought his truck and winch we put a block in a tree across the pond, and ran the bull rope over to the winch line, and pull it over backwards, away from the house, and everything else.

Port wrap is a must if you have to lower a top, there is no way I'd do it with just tying it off, that's asking to get you thrown off the tree. With porta wrap you can let the top run down and slowly bring it to a stop, then you are also not shock loading the stub, which is very important if working with dead trees, you don't want it to snap in half if you shock load it, that would be real bad news if you were up there.