I got my disaster organized finally, after a couple afternoons of dealing with it. When I do tree jobs, I tend to take shortcuts at the property I'm working at, to get off of it as fast as possible. So when I take down the trees I leave everything in 8-10 ft logs and haul it away with a forklift and deal with it on my own property. That usually means, if I'm on a job, more than a couple days in a row, I end up with a log jam at my place. Lol! So it takes me some time to get everything sorted out and organized.
The small pile is all Cedar and the pile is 9'-ish wide and 4'-ish tall for reference. The big pile, is about 13'-ish wide and 7'-ish tall at the peak. The tree I just took down, was about 60' tall, not a very wide crown, maybe 30-40 ', but had 3 main leaders that were all of a 28" bar at the bottoms. You can see a couple of them in the second picture. The trunk, is still in the ground, and is about 3 1/2 -4' diameter and about 8' tall yet. I think it is Elm, but y'all can tell me if that's right. We really only have a couple tree types around the towns out here, Locust and Elm.
I have no idea how many cords this will produce, but it's alot! Lol! This is the biggest job I've ever done, and this was the biggest tree I've ever taken down. I did have help from a payloader, to help make sure the leaders went where we wanted them, because they were all leaning pretty good and there was a fire hydrant, and power lines to worry about. So I cut them up, he pushed them off the trunk. Took a bit of the risk out of it, even if it was "cheating" a little bit. I'd rather be safe than sorry!
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