Some big stuff today
The other man got to test his new 661 on this old sycamore
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Can you see the pull rope? We had the tree hooked up to a 100 horse tractor and she was only just able to pull it over. Dry ground too
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He completely clogged the bar on his 661 with sawdust. I had to finish the tree with the 461.
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I really, really hate sycamore. Another, much smaller tree on the same job went sideways and landed on my 461. Luckily all that was damaged was the handlebar and fulel tank. The tree barely had any side lean. It was a tall straight tree with a small top. We had a pull on it with the tractor as it had a good back lean. Once the tree was standing up straight on the hinge it broke off sideways damaging my saw, two fuel cans and nearly killing aaron. He had left a solid 2 inches of hinge the whole way across, the trees girth was less than 20 inches. There's just no strength in them at all.