bjorn773
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Great video Brad!! As a woodburner, I can't help but salivate over all that prime firewood. Good stuff.
VIDEO: Topping and dropping a 58" DBH Oak tree
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There wasn't a bit of rot anywhere in this tree!
bjorn773
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Please tell me someone is making firewood out of that bad boy... it would be a crying shame if it went into a dump.
bjorn773
ArboristSite Operative
I saw a lot of good wood going into that chipper... sniff sniff
7sleeper
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Yes, he does. The funny think is, is that he has cut for years, and we didn't even know what chaps were. Back before the days of cell phones, he spent many an hour out getting the biggest pieces of firewood he could, ALONE. He would cut and load 300-500 pound pieces all by himself, regularly! He's a mans man. Too bad he didn't pass those physical traits on, lol
He's never cut himself once, but I agree, he still needs a pair.
Don't worry they will come out very soon when you start splitting all the wood by hand! :jawdrop:
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s13rymos
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Very cool vid! you did good in my opinion 
pinemartin
tightwad
Nice job . I could have used that 72in bar for the red oak I had to deal with this morning it was just shy of 70in DBH. I do have pictures if anyone is interested.
. I could have used that 72in bar for the red oak I had to deal with this morning it was just shy of 70in DBH. I do have pictures if anyone is interested.
Nothing more than 3"-4". Everything else was bucked into firewood. I did most of the trunk with the 084. I could only make 6 cuts per tank of fuel, lol.
Erick
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Hey man... trees on the ground, nobodys bleeding, and nothing got crushed..... job well done.
My 50 incher's will droop a little laying on their side, I bet that 72" looked like you should be shooting arrows with it.
Nice vids
My 50 incher's will droop a little laying on their side, I bet that 72" looked like you should be shooting arrows with it.
Nice vids
Erick
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Nice job
Duhhhhh!
YA THINK!!!
I bet that 72" looked like you should be shooting arrows with it.
Nice vids
You basically had to start with the end of the bar, and then work the rest of it back into the cut. Otherwise, it just kept trying to make my back cut lower than I wanted.
bjorn773
ArboristSite Operative
Boy, the big saws do love fuel, don't they. I was amazed how fast my 385 drank a tank, and that hasn't been ported.... YET
pinemartin
tightwad
here you go.
30in limb rounds
Stihlhead posing with the trunk
30in limb rounds
Stihlhead posing with the trunk
dingeryote
Blueberry Baron
I dunno Brad.
That stump looks better than most I have seen that were 1/2 the diameter.
I suspect you're a smidge hard on yourself as a critic.
With that floppity long bar drooping, it's gonna be a struggle to get things lined up perfect on the face cut, and I'm waiting for someone to chime in on how to do it better as well.
Maybe a shorter bar and going in halves on the face, then cleaning it up....like I gotta do without a 6' Bar? LOL!
Nice clean takedown no matter how ya look at it.
No property damage, nobody lost an eyeball.
Call it a win!!
BTW bucking with that thing is cheating!!
It would be at least a weekend of buzzing for most of us. LOL!!
Then there's the CSM guys who are gonna put you on a wedgie list for not making planks outta that thing, or calling them to do it.
Too bad ya don't heat with wood, that Oak would justify a new stove.
Stay safe!
Dingeryote
That stump looks better than most I have seen that were 1/2 the diameter.
I suspect you're a smidge hard on yourself as a critic.
With that floppity long bar drooping, it's gonna be a struggle to get things lined up perfect on the face cut, and I'm waiting for someone to chime in on how to do it better as well.
Maybe a shorter bar and going in halves on the face, then cleaning it up....like I gotta do without a 6' Bar? LOL!
Nice clean takedown no matter how ya look at it.
No property damage, nobody lost an eyeball.
Call it a win!!
BTW bucking with that thing is cheating!!
It would be at least a weekend of buzzing for most of us. LOL!!
Then there's the CSM guys who are gonna put you on a wedgie list for not making planks outta that thing, or calling them to do it.
Too bad ya don't heat with wood, that Oak would justify a new stove.
Stay safe!
Dingeryote
Nice vids. I ran RiverRat2 modded 084 a couple years ago and watching yours I want one.
That is a big one for sure!
nice job brad,
but i did'nt see your "favorite" saw in amongst the action ???
what gives ??
but i did'nt see your "favorite" saw in amongst the action ???
what gives ??
I did the face with the 066 a a 32" bar. There was no way I could handle the 084 an 6' bar doing that. I wouldn't have had any cleanup had I not had to change angles on it.
I probably spent no more than an hour bucking it up.
There was one other guy running a stock 460 on the smaller end of it.Similar threads
