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Me and @Scotty Overkill took down a nice size pin oak that was leaning pretty good towards the neighbors house. I climbed this one. There was also a double trunk cherry tree that one trunk was rotted out that Scotty climbed, sorry didn't get any pictures of that one. It ended up raining most of the day and we were soaked to the core.
Cut off the and lowered down the branches that I could off of the pin oak. We only cut off the branches that needed to be cut off so it would not get tangled up in the other trees. It wasn't a good idea to piece it out because they didn't want the other tree's to be damaged.
Then we choked it up high with the cable used my truck as the anchor point for the pulley and pulled it over whole across the driveway using Scotty's truck. And used the bottle jack method for extra insurance. We made sure to put some large billets on either side of the driveway so when the trunk fell it wouldn't crush the driveway.

This is the best picture that I could get of the lean.

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A view from in the tree. The branch is tied off ready to be cut and lowered down.
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You can just see my truck on the other side of the small pines. Which is the anchor point for the pulley to redirect the cable.
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Scotty making the face cut just after he cut the pocket and inserted the bottle jack.
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Fell perfect and didn't damage the driveway!
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Me and @Scotty Overkill took down a nice size pin oak that was leaning pretty good towards the neighbors house. I climbed this one. There was also a double trunk cherry tree that one trunk was rotted out that Scotty climbed, sorry didn't get any pictures of that one. It ended up raining most of the day and we were soaked to the core.
Cut off the and lowered down the branches that I could off of the pin oak. We only cut off the branches that needed to be cut off so it would not get tangled up in the other trees. It wasn't a good idea to piece it out because they didn't want the other tree's to be damaged.
Then we choked it up high with the cable used my truck as the anchor point for the pulley and pulled it over whole across the driveway using Scotty's truck. And used the bottle jack method for extra insurance. We made sure to put some large billets on either side of the driveway so when the trunk fell it wouldn't crush the driveway.

This is the best picture that I could get of the lean.

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A view from in the tree. The branch is tied off ready to be cut and lowered down.
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You can just see my truck on the other side of the small pines. Which is the anchor point for the pulley to redirect the cable.
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Scotty making the face cut just after he cut the pocket and inserted the bottle jack.
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Fell perfect and didn't damage the driveway!
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Good idea to protect the driveway. I typically use tires laid out in an array. If it is a strong risk, I'll lay 3/4" plywood over the tires to help absorb the jolt. It's hard on the wood but very effective.
 

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I discovered the limits of my car today.
20" of snow with a 1" thick layer of ice near the upper surface was too much!
My cars belly got a good scratching and I broke a snow chain forcing my luck.
My car is a regular front wheel drive limousine.
Once the chain broke we called it quits and climbed the ~2km forest path by foot.
We were releasing young carp into a lake, hopefully some will survive and grow big.

A second car tried the same climb, made it about 50 meters further, got stuck and reversed back down.

A third vehicle, a tractor with rear wheel drive and differential blockage made it some 500 meters further.
Got eventually stuck too, turned around.

A fourth vehicle trying the climb was a 4WD large forestry tractor - that one made it up and down the forest path apparently without blinking.

Pictures are on my camera, can't upload any at this point.
 

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Yesterdays challenge:
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I felt better once other vehicles also failed to make the climb, a third car and a tractor are not pictured, the red one is mine:
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The good deed, repopulate the lake, the guys counted 77 live young carp.
They had to break through about 6" of ice, my small eBay ax came in handy:
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Also played around in my storage unit. Haven’t been in it for about 3 weeks. Can’t wait until some nicer weather. I’ll pull the majority of this stuff out, try to weed out the junk from the good stuff, and get somewhat organized. Had to pull the p51 out for a photo op too..
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Worked on tje hitch for my atv. Almost done. Gotta trim a little for clearance to get hitch pin in and pull off and paint it. Dont think i will tear this one apart.
Will get some pics mabe tomorrow if i get time to work on it after work.

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Made it back from walk and was light enough to get a quick pic. Hope to finish it tomorrow.
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Went for a walk to the bush to see how many trees blew over this winter. I shouldnt have to drop a tree this year lol.
My boy and i shot the 22 for a bit. Take the tree away for leanin and he wasnt so good lol.
Came home and finished the saw holder for the rear atv rack. Hopin to go cut wood this week.
Then washed the truck. It was getting pretty dirty from the back road today.
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Cleaned up the front end of my tractor, pulled bearing hubs and extracted about 6 feet of bailing twine from each wheel.
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All clean and reassembled. My OCD is happy.
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And then it was time to clean out my parts wash tank, I may have waited a little too long...lol!

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And again...my OCD is happy.

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