Trees you've cut

[Kerfed]

I’d like some more jobs like that, miniskid does make chipping nicer though.

 

[chiselbit]

Yesterday's fun. 20 to 24 inch Doug firsView attachment 287126

Nice shootin

 

[huskyboy]

 

[Pincher]

Decided to take down a basswood that was crowding other more desirable trees today. Took a couple 8" wedges and help from a breeze to go down.

 

[smokey7]

What's the reason for the high stump? I am always interested in the reasons.

 

[Pincher]

What's the reason for the high stump? I am always interested in the reasons.

Reason one, at ground level the stump was weak and rotted where I needed the hinge. In the picture of the notch you can see it was still hollow.
Reason two, it shortened the distance the canopy had travel away from the stump (less damage to trees I wanted to keep).

 

[TheDarkLordChinChin]

I had assumed it was full of metal

 

[~WBF]

What's the reason for the high stump? I am always interested in the reasons.

As answered, you want to get above the rot.
In certain type of timber, you want to stand erect.
Makes you a smaller target, better vision and for better escape. Right?
You usually will see indicators of heart rot
( may have presence of heart rot conks)
You can 'sound it' with your axe, otherwise.

Your strongest wood fibers are at the ground in a healthier tree though. (When needed)
It shortens where the top hits but lengthens the travel. You can still gain 2 feet: on flat ground at that height.
It's also a good trick when you want to jump fences, now and then
That's a Swanson undercut, btw.
It's as wide as its deep. (1:1 ratio) 45° or pitch. A humboldt is 6/12 pitch at about 26°.
Humboldt is harder to marry up your cuts
but not as grabby in say Hemlock with a Ceder
chain but it's very dangerous in some hardwoods. It's just not wide enough.
Couple tricks I use in small Hemlock with big dogs is slam in first without the dogs. I actually do that anyway. Secondly, you can take 13° from the top and same on the bottom for a pie cut.

Tha all I know. Then I got expelled from cutting class.

 

[Pincher]

Good information for heart rot indicators. I just looked at it.

 

[Eduardo K]

I dropped this tree today for a buddy. I had to wedge it over it’s back lean. I only had to worry about getting it to fall where it wouldn't get hung up and it was solid at the stump for the most part. One side faced an open field and I was able to push it that way. Its the biggest tree I've taken down in decades.
I ended up limbing it and bucking it with the 7910. That saw got heavy, so much so I was thinking about smaller ported saws. A shorter, light bar is definitely in my future.

 

[pwheel]

Dropping a few snags today in back of my neighbor's house.

 

[huskyboy]

 

[Eduardo K]

Did you plunge cut and go around the base to make your back cut?
I’ve seen guys fall big trees with short bars, but never with a stump cut so level and even.
Nice work!

 

[RI Chevy]

Looks like plunge cuts at the red arrows...

 

[Eduardo K]

Looks like plunge cuts at the red arrows...

Right on, swept it out from the sides and left a trigger in the back maybe. I didn’t even look at the log. Thanks for pointing that out.

 

[dirter]

My wife and I just finished 16 acres of crop tree release in 16 days, well except for going to work and rainy days.

 

[chiselbit]

Saturday in the burn, lots of 3’ footers. Zoom in and you can see my pickup that’s where I started that morning, dropping everything up out of the draw. No processing, just put it on the ground and go to the next tree.

 

[HYPERSAWS]

View attachment 289191 Saturday in the burn, lots of 3’ footers. Zoom in and you can see my pickup that’s where I started that morning, dropping everything up out of the draw. No processing, just put it on the ground and go to the next tree.

I bet that's scary smashing all them burnt whips

 

[TheDarkLordChinChin]

I bet he loves wedging them.

 

[chiselbit]

Certainly lots of wedging. It’s the unburned understory that’s horrible. Nothing bends like it should, everything is sharp, it looks like an anti logger designed the perfect logger traps to maim and kill