Trees you've cut

[Coltont]

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It's a shame the deer didnt eat all the stump sprouts 50 years ago

 

[Lightning Performance]

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Bet it has a few cool slabs in it. The rot adds color if it didn't get punky.

 

[SpaceBus]

Bet it has a few cool slabs in it. The rot adds color if it didn't get punky.

I find the prettiest boards/slabs I've milled come from dead standing trees that didn't get ravaged by fungus. Especially the dead standing fir logs I've milled. Usually the sap wood is flaky and dry rotted, but after cutting off those slabs there is usually a very dry and very solid cant hidden inside. The weirdest trees I've milled are dead standing tamaracks that turn out to be entirely filled with fungus. Tamarack is supposed to be very rot resistant, maybe even more so than cedar, but any time I find a dead one it is full of mycelium. The firs and spruce trees tend to have bracket mushrooms all over them when they die standing, but the tamaracks only show the fungus on the inside.

 

[Lightning Performance]

Brown heart rot will do a number on any tree.
The sap rotters produce nice color but you only have a few years of a window to harvest them. Now many maples can live just fine with three fungus run through the sap wood. Two kinds in white oak. These produce very nice spalted wood without turning it all to punky mush. Three other fungi will wipe out the sap wood in fifteen weeks of warm wet weather in open cell wood like maple or red oak.

 

[Nathan lassley]

I'm sitting on what is left of an old logging road from when our place was part of a mill operation over 100 years ago, there's still remnant stumps around. That stump has the best back cut and notch I've ever seen considering how burnt up it is. That was during the 89 powerhouse fire, we found some hand tools left by miramonte crew 4 the local boys.

 

[logger nate]

 

[logger nate]

 

[RI Chevy]

2 for 1 deal

 

[huskyboy]

 

[chipper1]

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You got me with that first picture lol.
Nice job.

 

[chipper1]

I just haven't seen much english ivy here in SW MI. Probably only a handful of times. The poison ivy grows on every kind of tree though [emoji1787]

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What's up bud.
I'll vouch for you on that!
Dropped a couple pines Sat down in Freeport that I thought had PI on them, but it was leaves of five, so I just cut them down, or was that let them thrive lol. Dang things had mulberry growing up through them and around the secondaries and the cable lines on two sides, and there was a little bit of ivy around one side of the primary, but it was pretty small. The worst was all the crap around the secondaries, probably spent and hr getting it clear altogether.

 

[chipper1]

Cut five decent sized Balsam Fir trees today. Limbed them on the south side as high as I could reach with the powered and manual pole saw to help fall them in the right direction. The second and third tree pinched my 460 and I had to finish the job with the MS150. I made my felling cuts a bit differently today and tried the bore cut. My felling cuts were much flatter using the bore cut, but with my wife putting tension on the trunk with the felling winch the tree wanted to pinch my bar. The third tree also had a ton of sweep and spun while coming off the trunk and landed right onto the bar of my 460. I don't usually post pics when I fell trees, I just don't have that kind of time, but today was exciting since the trees were 20-35' from the house/power lines!

I'm thinking about replacing the bent 20" bar on the 460 with a 16-18" bar. I have a spare 24" bar and chain for the big trees, so I'm leaning 16", which would also make this boat anchor a bit more user friendly.

Did you say the felling winch lol.
Put a new clutch in mine a couple weeks ago.

It made me some cash the week prior on this job so I figured it was time.
This is one of the trees I dropped on this little, but steep hill.

 

[SpaceBus]

Did you say the felling winch lol.
Put a new clutch in mine a couple weeks ago.
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It made me some cash the week prior on this job so I figured it was time.
This is one of the trees I dropped on this little, but steep hill.
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Heh, I guess it is a skidding winch, but I use it as a felling winch half the time!

The clutch job didn't look too bad. I had the cable come off once when my wife was a bit over zealous at max length.

 

[chipper1]

Few more from that job.

 

[chipper1]

Heh, I guess it is a skidding winch, but I use it as a felling winch half the time!

I'm totally razzing you .
I would say that's what mine gets used for around 90% of the time .
All these were winch "encouraged", the cherry was leaning towards a power line and the poplar were punky on the outside and I didn't trust wedging them, besides the wedges would have been on my bar by the time they did anything.

Had to take one branch out of the cherry so it didn't take out the little shed, it would have went to the left more no problem, but there was a nice maple they wanted to keep.

 

[chipper1]

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You guys and those stihls .
Looks like you swung that one a little, sure hope you're not sticking around the stump to find out if it went far enough .

 

[chipper1]

The clutch job didn't look too bad. I had the cable come off once when my wife was a bit over zealous at max length.

Not bad, just a few hrs, if I did them more I'm sure I could have knocked it out in under 2. It was just over 400 delivered so the cost wasn't too bad either, at least to me. I want to replace the smaller sprocket/axle shaft and the bearing it rides on(probably the same assembly), and put a new chain on it so all the parts match up/wear the same. May not be a big deal, but they were all showing wear and the bearing was a little tight and not from being new.

 

[SpaceBus]

Not bad, just a few hrs, if I did them more I'm sure I could have knocked it out in under 2. It was just over 400 delivered so the cost wasn't too bad either, at least to me. I want to replace the smaller sprocket/axle shaft and the bearing it rides on(probably the same assembly), and put a new chain on it so all the parts match up/wear the same. May not be a big deal, but they were all showing wear and the bearing was a little tight and not from being new.

I've only had my V3507 for two years now, but due to a few rookie mistakes I've got a couple of nice kinks in the cable. One of these days I'd like to pick up a new cable that is a bit longer and keep the original as backup.

 

[Coltont]

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Your operator is cocky and likes to take chances or hes got a really strong machine and knows how to utilize its power.

 

[huskyboy]

Your operator is cocky and likes to take chances or hes got a really strong machine and knows how to utilize its power.

Doosan is sturdy healthy girl and the man holding the reins is good. Your speaking from past experiences with operators and weak machines?