Trees you've cut

[longleaf]

I would like to do the testing one day. Around here if you have lived here your whole life and you go back 5 generations you will find a common ancestor nearly every time.

 

[Rob Stafari]

Did some more old fence row clearing last week. Dirty rotten ash trees. Some uprooted snags. All in a tangled mess of old barbwire, honeysuckle, multi flora rose and other random chit. It was a no fun stressful day. Everything came safely down. Only a minor blow to the hard hat after a small branch hung up in a neighboring bush fell loose while setting a line. I knew it was there, but I was far more concerned with the bigger stuff on the other side of me that would've done real damage...

 

[RI Chevy]

Nice job on the leaner. Making it go where it didn't want to.

 

[Rob Stafari]

I was hoping the one snag I pulled over would break the other one and save me some of the nerve racking cutting. Alas, it did not. It was easy enough to cut off the top first then tackle the wedgie. Now the llamas and emus won't get crushed or escape a broken fence. Nor will the neighbors or their kids get smacked on the head. All in all twas a success.

 

[Rob Stafari]

That smaller leaner was a bear. It was uprooted and hung up on a boxelder with a branch on the backside. Was glad I cut the hinge smaller. Had to break it loose and roll it off the stump to get that branch around. 3 to 1 was almost not enough.

 

[merc_man]

LOL. Yessir. Even if you think you are 100%, your not. Someone, somewhere along the lines wayback met someone out of the bloodlines and had a child. [emoji4]

Yes. If you go back 4 generations i think it is our family last name got changed. Weird lol

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[blacksmith]

Nice work @Rob Stafari, looks like it was a little bit of a pain.

 

[Rob Stafari]

Thanks @blacksmith, it was. I don't like having to carry high leverage side cutters as one of my felling tools, but I like getting tangles in barbwire even less. Being an old fence row meant I was also leery of cutting at fence level, so all my notches and back cuts were at an uncomfortably high height. Was a good workout to say the least.

 

[MustangMike]

My results came back 17% Ireland/Scotland/Wales. It is from my Father's Mother's Father's side of the family. It is the only part of my ancestry that did not come over around the turn of the century (they came over a long time ago), and were involved in the Fur trade with Canada. They must have been a little important as one of them is buried in Trinity Cemetery.

There was some inherited land in the NYC area, (near the GW Bridge), but it was lost during the depression.

Beautiful day here today, will be taking the Grandson's for a bike ride, my first time out this year!

 

[00wyk]

So nice! Just got back from a mini holiday in the UK. Couple days each in Edinburgh/Stirling, Welsh countryside, Salisbury, and London. So beautiful over there! Didn't make it to Ireland on this trip unfortunately, but I'll be back to visit your island. Is yours a working castle with modern residence? We got to see The Castles of Stirling, Edinburgh, Raglan, Carreg, Caerphilly, Coch, and Windsor. Also the Llanthony Priory, Tintern Abbey, Salisbury Cathedral. Some in ruins, some in part ruins, some maintained still functional. As a craftsman who is regularly trying to put major bandages on houses that are barely over twenty years old, it just amazes me the quality and pride of the craftsmanship they were able to create so many hundreds of years ago. You live in quite the special part of the world. Perhaps I'll be able to visit your little slice of it on my next trip across the pond.

Castles come in all shapes and sizes. Our local castle is now owned by Austrians since the family sold it off decades ago. The Austrians dump an ungodly amount of money into restoring it every day. Castles are very expensive. We maintain the Estate that surrounds it. Much more affordable. The castle itself is on about 30 acres or so. Our estate sprawls across the mountainside to the river, making the castle landlocked. We all get along mostly...

After seeing so many ruins basically living within scaffolding for years and years, I started telling the natives it must take a long time to make ruins. It's usually appreciated as the Irish and I share a rather sardonic humor.

Here's the Rock of Cashel under repair:

Ireland lured me in with it's rustic nature and gorgeous scenery. I really do feel like I've stepped back in time. The pace is also a bit more to my liking now that I've put half a century behind me. Castles here are wide and varied since there were so many different rulers and invaders, from Normans, Vikings, Saxons, English, French, Irish etc. Many ruins date back to about the 9th century when Vikings started to arrived. Some are still the county or town seats to this day. We've thousands of castles, abbeys, priorys etc etc. Most are in ruin. My wife's family seat has been in ruins for centuries up in Meath:

Here's the Rock of Dunamasc in county Laois. Just views like this remind me how much I love this place.

 

[CrystalRiver1]

I was hoping the one snag I pulled over would break the other one and save me some of the nerve racking cutting. Alas, it did not. It was easy enough to cut off the top first then tackle the wedgie. Now the llamas and emus won't get crushed or escape a broken fence. Nor will the neighbors or their kids get smacked on the head. All in all twas a success. View attachment 178144 View attachment 178145 View attachment 178146 View attachment 178147

Hey, is that a pair of those burly flightless birds that are man-killers?
Just read a gnarly news story last week about one them "taking out" his owner who was raising & breeding them for a business venture...as the story goes he fell down and the overgrown Baby Huey made short work of him!

 

[Rob Stafari]

Hey, is that a pair of those burly flightless birds that are man-killers?
Just read a gnarly news story last week about one them "taking out" his owner who was raising & breeding them for a business venture...as the story goes he fell down and the overgrown Baby Huey made short work of him!

Yes they are! I call them the devil birds and do not turn my back on them. The one likes to get a little peckish. Scary when they jump and swipe those prehistoric claws of theirs!

 

[Crzybowhntr]

View attachment 171985 Biggest ash tree I ever cut.

I have one very similar to that in size If my kids horses don't quit cribbing on it, I won't have to cut it down. They're like beavers...

 

[CrystalRiver1]

Yes they are! I call them the devil birds and do not turn my back on them. The one likes to get a little peckish. Scary when they jump and swipe those prehistoric claws of theirs!

Y-I-K-E-S!!!!!!

 

[blacksmith]

Thanks @blacksmith, it was. I don't like having to carry high leverage side cutters as one of my felling tools, but I like getting tangles in barbwire even less. Being an old fence row meant I was also leery of cutting at fence level, so all my notches and back cuts were at an uncomfortably high height. Was a good workout to say the least.

I agree that's the worst making high notches and back cuts. The only thing worse than that is making a notch and back cut on a leaner with a 28" bar, I had to do that once and it was absolutely miserable!!! The most unnerving part was that if something gose wrong you have no place to run.
Did you trash any chains by running into any hidden barb wire?

 

[Nutball]

Echo 310

 

[blacksmith]

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Echo 310

That's one bigazz tree! What kind is it? It looks like there's poison ivy on it I wouldn't go near that thing I am highly allergic to that crap!

 

[RI Chevy]

Just asking, but does the photo imply that you cut that base with that little Echo?
I try and stay clear of trees lined with poison ivy as well. I generally get it from the breeze.

 

[Rob Stafari]

I agree that's the worst making high notches and back cuts. The only thing worse than that is making a notch and back cut on a leaner with a 28" bar, I had to do that once and it was absolutely miserable!!! The most unnerving part was that if something gose wrong you have no place to run.
Did you trash any chains by running into any hidden barb wire?

No chains were harmed that day. Chain is still on saw, but I haven’t looked at it. Was still cutting ok at end of day. 24” 8 pin square ground. The less time i spent under those trees the better. I did clear an escape route for everything. They were narrow and small with only one place to go, but they were there and used. Wasn’t hanging around to watch those brittle things fall. Of course most of them didn’t go anywhere till I got around to the pull side of the rope.

 

[Nutball]

The echo 310 was used to cut metal wires half way up the trunk.

It's a hackberry, with poison ivy.


42" bar square skip stihl (SSS)

Siberian Elm so I'm told


I see now the 2188 had a muffler mod for the hackberry, but not for the elm. MM made a big difference when using a 42" bar.