Two Small Leaning Alders Must Die

[slowp]

They are about 5 or 6 inches in diameter, and are typical leaning for the sunlight.
Here's the plan. I just cleaned out blackberries around them and around a bigger alder for hiding behind or stepping around. I'm going to treat them as two trees, so will have to high stump to get room for the saw to work. I'll cut deep for the undercut.
It's the two in the center of the picture.


The view from the front. The duck behind tree is the bigger one on the right with the scratch marks.


Only one saw will be used. Does this sound like a plan?

Interesting: There is another alder that should die behind them, but it is leaning in a bad direction so I'm hoping it will go towards the light after these are out and will change direction. Or not.

 

[chucker]

?? maybe get your Barbie pistol out to send a few rounds into them to do the job right hey??

 

[rwoods]

Where are the pros when you need them? This non-pro would cut the right one first just as I would if it were a single tree which means a high stump. Next I would cut the stump off and then cut the second tree as if it were a single tree - probably your stated plan. You could cut the second tree then the double stump, but I wouldn't recommend that as the second tree could do some funny things as it bounced off the high stump. I don't know about the one saw part - it looks to me to be the ideal justification for the three saw plan. Ron

 

[northmanlogging]

don't look like they are grown together enough to try both at once, may be easier to high stump em and hack the stump later. tis not like your going to need spring board or anything...

 

[066blaster]

Just pull em out by hand like a bad weed.

 

[2dogs]

Leaning towards the sun means leaning towards California. Tell your trees it is a false sense of security they have. Yes we have sun but have no water. Maybe they will stand back up.

I would just salami cut them and let the trunks fall straight down and then cut them low to the ground. Easy peasy.

 

[slowp]

I'm thinking of being fancy. I don't have 6 saws to load up the micro crummy. But I'm thinking a mini Coos Bay cut might be interesting.

It rained here a little last night but I told it to go south. Meanwhile, the weather people are grimly warning us of a major cool down. It'll get into the 30s at night. Scary!

 

[Gologit]

I'm thinking of being fancy. I don't have 6 saws to load up the micro crummy. But I'm thinking a mini Coos Bay cut might be interesting.

It rained here a little last night but I told it to go south. Meanwhile, the weather people are grimly warning us of a major cool down. It'll get into the 30s at night. Scary!

You mean you don't have ten saws, eight extra bars, a five gallon bucket full of freshly sharpened chains, twelve EPA approved gas cans, a falling lever, a crow bar, two bottle jacks, one of those Roger RamJet Space Cadet helmets, a fully equipped tool box with every size wrench and screw driver known to man, a camera mounted on your helmet that gives everybody watching a bad case of vertigo, a sledge hammer, a ball peen hammer, five axes, forty seven wedges in various lengths and colors, a come-along, eight hundred feet of rope, full body armor and a first aid kit capable of treating half the population of Lewis County? And you're not carrying any of that stuff in a full sized 4wd diesel pickup with tires taller than you are?
Jeez girl...how do you ever get any wood cut?

 

[slowp]

I have wasted half the day away already, if that counts. If the trees don't go as planned, It'll be

THE EPA's FAULT.

 

[HuskStihl]

Well, borrow Bob's GoPro camera and make a video! This is the unprepared amateur in me talking, but I'd probably just cut them down. Not entirely sure I'd even bother to turn my brain on while doing it. Or, pick up a narrow kerf setup and do the mini-coos. Better yet, get a drill and a sawzall and do a mini GOL. Those little wooden door stoppers might make perfect sized wedges. Totally off-piste, but if you found the jack for one of those "smart cars", you might could get a jack in the back for safety

 

[slowp]

Here are the two. Nothing special done.

DAMAGE to the leave trees! Fire that cutter!




I put them back up and tamped them in. We shall hope they thrive.
The Limbing Saw.

The falling and bucking saw. It looks like a slopping back cut from this angle, but I double checked and it really isn't. Really!

Then it was time to RELEASE THE CONIFERS.
Before.

After. By this time it was warm and the sun was out and they said we would be in for a smite tonight and through the whole weekend and probably beyond so I quit, changed into T-shirt and shorts, grabbed a book, pulled out the deck chair and absorbed vitamin D rays. Yup, it was 60ish out there...Summer!

 

[madhatte]

I think you should blame the EPA for that dangerous "sun" stuff while you're at it.

 

[slowp]

Yup, they need to control the sun better and I'll blame the EPA because The Used Dog got hot on our walk and I had to slow down for him, thus not getting as good of a workout and endangering my life.

 

[Trx250r180]

those lil guys are great for practicing the coos cut ,it's what i tried for practice before the bigger ones ,i just did a 1/3 deep face ,nothing too deep so i was able to get a usable hinge ,yes like northman said ,high stump them

 

[treeslayer2003]

You mean you don't have ten saws, eight extra bars, a five gallon bucket full of freshly sharpened chains, twelve EPA approved gas cans, a falling lever, a crow bar, two bottle jacks, one of those Roger RamJet Space Cadet helmets, a fully equipped tool box with every size wrench and screw driver known to man, a camera mounted on your helmet that gives everybody watching a bad case of vertigo, a sledge hammer, a ball peen hammer, five axes, forty seven wedges in various lengths and colors, a come-along, eight hundred feet of rope, full body armor and a first aid kit capable of treating half the population of Lewis County? And you're not carrying any of that stuff in a full sized 4wd diesel pickup with tires taller than you are?
Jeez girl...how do you ever get any wood cut?

you forgot that loadlock jack thingy..........I don't know what i'll do tomorrow cuz I ain't got one.....

 

[rwoods]

You guys still forgot an item or two. I always do. Takes me longer to load and unload than it does to cut and always the right length sharp chain is left back home. I jest somewhat except the chain part - seems I am always a drive link or two too short or too long. Ron

 

[2dogs]

You mean you don't have ten saws, eight extra bars, a five gallon bucket full of freshly sharpened chains, twelve EPA approved gas cans, a falling lever, a crow bar, two bottle jacks, one of those Roger RamJet Space Cadet helmets, a fully equipped tool box with every size wrench and screw driver known to man, a camera mounted on your helmet that gives everybody watching a bad case of vertigo, a sledge hammer, a ball peen hammer, five axes, forty seven wedges in various lengths and colors, a come-along, eight hundred feet of rope, full body armor and a first aid kit capable of treating half the population of Lewis County? And you're not carrying any of that stuff in a full sized 4wd diesel pickup with tires taller than you are?
Jeez girl...how do you ever get any wood cut?

Except for the extra chains and the body armor you just described my truck, though you forgot the 1/2 mile of wire rope.

 

[2dogs]

" seems I am always a drive link or two too short" Ron

We already knew that part.

 

[rwoods]

Don't forget the loose screws. Ron

 

[slowp]

You guys still forgot an item or two. I always do. Takes me longer to load and unload than it does to cut and always the right length sharp chain is left back home. I jest somewhat except the chain part - seems I am always a drive link or two too short or too long. Ron

That's the beauty of The Micro Crummy. It wheels into the shop fully loaded. When I'm ready to go kill alders, it is loaded and ready to go.