Tree Felling Technique Thread

[Deets066]

Even with the seal leaking a bit they still work fine. I use em at work all the time, never had an issue. Use em for picking up overhead cranes to change wheels.

 

[Coltont]

Is that the deal that has two feet one for the ground and one for the tree that you crank up?


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460D is the best jack ive found.

 

[Skeans1]

460D is the best jack ive found.

I’d rather have a shovel on them then a skidder reach up 30+ feet and 60k works good.


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[Skeans1]

Even with the seal leaking a bit they still work fine. I use em at work all the time, never had an issue. Use em for picking up overhead cranes to change wheels.

There’s no chance of a gust of wind with an overhead crane though like a falling jack can see.


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[hseII]

A 45 ton Silvey or Borntrager jack takes a hell of a seat to fit in the stump safely, but the good part is they are self contained with a pressure gauge and check valves internally.


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Borntrager now offers a model that works with the Enerpac pump Deetsy shared previously.


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[Deets066]

There’s no chance of a gust of wind with an overhead crane though like a falling jack can see.


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No chance?

 

[Skeans1]

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No chance?

Still short take a 200’ fir a little wind up high you’d be amazed how far that gauge moves.


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[hseII]

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No chance?

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[Deets066]

Still short take a 200’ fir a little wind up high you’d be amazed how far that gauge moves.


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Mine doesn’t have a gauge, nor do I fall timber that’s 200’ tall. But I do work on and install cranes that are well over 250 ton.

Trees are a hobby

 

[Deets066]

I’m not tryin to start a pissin match here, your advice is sound. And if your gunna put a jack in a tree it should be one that was designed for it. Just was sayin what I had worked for what I have done a few times.

 

[Skeans1]

Mine doesn’t have a gauge, nor do I fall timber that’s 200’ tall. But I do work on and install cranes that are well over 250 ton.

Trees are a hobby

I make a living cutting both mechanical and by hand to me jacking isn’t something a hobbyist really should be doing a lot can go bad fast. Plenty of guys have been killed using jacks that do it everyday for a living.


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[Skeans1]

I’m not tryin to start a pissin match here, your advice is sound. And if your gunna put a jack in a tree it should be one that was designed for it. Just was sayin what I had worked for what I have done a few times.

Sorry just don’t want to see someone get hurt getting the idea anyone can do it, it’s like blow down or cutting snags there’s stuff that really needs to left to the guys doing it everyday.

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[Deets066]

To me, jacking a tree is safer than climbing it and putting a pull rope in. I’d rather tip it from the base than put tension on the top on a leaner.

 

[Deets066]

Sorry just don’t want to see someone get hurt getting the idea anyone can do it, it’s like blow down or cutting snags there’s stuff that really needs to left to the guys doing it everyday.

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Blow downs and snags are stuff I use equipment for and try to refrain from cutting on. Agreed 100%

 

[Skeans1]

To me, jacking a tree is safer than climbing it and putting a pull rope in. I’d rather tip it from the base than put tension on the top on a leaner.

I won’t disagree there getting on the spurs or taking a ride up on the heel rack.


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[hseII]

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[huskyboy]

These last two tornado salvage logging jobs we did would be near impossible without the doosan. Some of this chit you couldn’t barely even walk through when we first started it. Tension everywhere.

 

[Skeans1]

These last two tornado salvage logging jobs we did would be near impossible without the doosan. Some of this chit you couldn’t barely even walk through when we first started it. Tension everywhere.

Does that one have the full shovel gear on it or is it an excavator? What size is it?


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[huskyboy]

Does that one have the full shovel gear on it or is it an excavator? What size is it?


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Dx140, I think with a Perkins in it. I’ll get a pic of the claw/grapple attachment on it, have to clear the snow off it this morning. Not a huge excavator I guess, but surprisingly agile and powerful. Good for what we do with it.

 

[XP_Slinger]

Found a large and surprisingly healthy soft maple in my stand the other day. Expected heart rot or at least very large heart wood at this size but I think because it was a single trunk it was doing well. It had 51ft of clean trunk before the first limb.