Trees you've cut

[TheDarkLordChinChin]

The machine makes light work of everything.

 

[TheDarkLordChinChin]

Some big stuff today

The other man got to test his new 661 on this old sycamore






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








He completely clogged the bar on his 661 with sawdust. I had to finish the tree with the 461.










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.

 

[TheDarkLordChinChin]

Some leylandiis from the same job. Everyone has leylandiis.








This one had heavy side lean. The hinge held and the tree fell on course. Teliable trees to cut. Not like sycamore.

 

[Powerstroke Cowboy]

Glad everyone is okay!

 

[Maintenance Chief]

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.

Are you guys able to get skip sequence chain?

 

[davidwyby]

and keep the RPMs up and pull the bar out to clear chips often…watch some west coast fallers.

 

[TheDarkLordChinChin]

Are you guys able to get skip sequence chain?

Not easily. There's a UK website that sells Oregon skip chain per drive link.
However, if you use this website you have to order from the country you want the product shipped to. This doesn't work for me.
If I order from my address here in Ireland it means I have to have it shipped here to ireland. This website won't ship anything to ireland unless you order over a certain amount.
The more you spend on an order the higher the import charges are going to be.
Normally if I wanted something posted from the UK I would have it sent to an address just across the border and drive up there to collect it, that way I don't pay any import charges.
Or alternatively I'd have something sent to an address in the UK and collect when I'm over there.
But with this website I would first have to be in the UK to order something to an address there. I'm usually only in the UK for a couple of days which is not long enough to order something and wait for it to arrive before I leave.

So long story short, no, I can't get it and dealerships here either don't know what it is or deny its existence.

 

[TheDarkLordChinChin]

and keep the RPMs up and pull the bar out to clear chips often…watch some west coast fallers.

Yeah, I should have told him that but I thought he knew

 

[davidwyby]

Not easily. There's a UK website that sells Oregon skip chain per drive link.
However, if you use this website you have to order from the country you want the product shipped to. This doesn't work for me.
If I order from my address here in Ireland it means I have to have it shipped here to ireland. This website won't ship anything to ireland unless you order over a certain amount.
The more you spend on an order the higher the import charges are going to be.
Normally if I wanted something posted from the UK I would have it sent to an address just across the border and drive up there to collect it, that way I don't pay any import charges.
Or alternatively I'd have something sent to an address in the UK and collect when I'm over there.
But with this website I would first have to be in the UK to order something to an address there. I'm usually only in the UK for a couple of days which is not long enough to order something and wait for it to arrive before I leave.

So long story short, no, I can't get it and dealerships here either don't know what it is or deny its existence.

Maybe try cowboy skip

Grind off every third cutter. Should come out to alternating lefts and rights.

 

[Catbuster]

The biggest thing with keeping your bar un-bound from saw dust is, well, keeping the chips from becoming dust and keeping enough power to the chain to keep it turning-until it’s cleared itself out of the wood.

I run 32” full comp on a saw that (I think) makes less power than that 661 here in hardwood country. I don’t have too many problems unless I go too low on my rakers.

 

[davidwyby]

@TheDarkLordChinChin nah seriously

It’s a thing

Comes out semi skip ish IIRC

 

[TheDarkLordChinChin]

We have been working through some big macrocarpas this week.
I hate them.
Dog ignorant trees, very heavy timber and the branches are covered in little round cones that catch onto each other. Nothing ever hits the ground.





These trees were planted in 1967. 70 feet tall and a good 4 foot diameter.

 

[TheDarkLordChinChin]

We have been working through some big macrocarpas this week.
I hate them.
Dog ignorant trees, very heavy timber and the branches are covered in little round cones that catch onto each other. Nothing ever hits the ground.

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These trees were planted in 1967. 70 feet tall and a good 4 foot diameter.

Before and after. We just used the chipper as a tractor to pull big pieces down

 

[Brush Ape]

Dug with sharpshooter and pickaxe. Echo 7310. I’d recommend it for it’s class. Pretty amazing for what I’ve put it to.

 

[TheDarkLordChinChin]

Sycamore

 

[TheDarkLordChinChin]

Beech

 

[They call me Mr. Kibbs]

Beech


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Pretty work!

 

[TheDarkLordChinChin]

Today we cut down some more windblown spruce trees.
Thistle on a hill beside a house that some Americans live in.
A really quiet, out of the way place. You have to drive up a gravel road that goes through two gated fields to get to it. Really nice.
Anyway, some big trees blew down in the storm there.


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One of them was fairly rotten.



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There was one remaining spruce that didn't blow down. It was also the biggest.
What's more, there were low voltage cables behind it and then the house behind those.
I got a friend of mine to come with a digger to pull it over for us. The lad is only 23 and has 5 diggers, 4 tractors, silage baling outfit, tri axel low loader, slurry tanker and agitator, hedge cutters, a tarmac spreader and now he's on about buying a tree shears. Works non stop. He started out doing fencing but does literally everything now.

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Then we went and reduced a cedar for a neighbour of mine. A neighbour who doesn't like to part with money.
One of the guys got his first climb in.


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Okay, heres a story for you.
We did those two jobs on the same day.
One for some American blow-ins good half hour down the road and the other for some locals right beside me.

We only finished off the job for the Americans today. The priority was to get the trees on the ground, not to cut them up. They were in no panic to get the timber processed and the mess cleared.

The other job, the one for the locals was high priority. There was another storm promised and they texted me in a panic looking for that cedar tree reduced the next day.

I agreed to come to them the next day since they had been unlucky in the two previous storms. In storm Daragh in December three big leylandi trees belonging to them fell across the road and onto their neighbours house, shed and lorry. I think i posted pics of that job in this thread. In storm Eowyn in January another big leylandi tree belonging to them snapped off and crushed a different neighbours hay shed.

So I felt a bit sorry for them and came to reduce this other tree on short notice so it couldn't uproot or snap and cause more havoc. Plus, they're my neighbours and they're going to get me to cut the trees that fell into the hay shed, more on that later.

When I say they're locals, she's local. She grew up a little further down the road in a big old manor house but she spent a lot of her life in the UK. She makes designer clothes, she even made an outfit for lady gaga. He's from Dublin, south Dublin. That's the wealthy part of Dublin. He has a posh sounding second name, it's definitely far from the chainsaw that he grew up.

They bought this house half a mile from me on the urgings of her father.

I mentioned earlier that she grew up in an old manor house. That's her father's family. He has a posh second name, but he's still a Catholic. In Ireland there's a divide between catholics and protestants. It's not as a big a deal as it used to be but it's still there. The church of Ireland protestants are mostly descended from English settlers and are usually wealthier and have a reputation for meanness and keeping everything they can to themselves. They were the ruling estate here when Ireland was ruled by England. They're a small minority, most catholics don't  really consider them to be truly irish, at least implicitly. There's a lot of history there.

But this guy is a Catholic. Lives in a big fancy protestant house from hundreds of years ago, has some of the best land around and is rotten with money. He recently sold a commercial forest for 1.3 million. My friend aaron who works with me told me that his mother used to work in that house when she was a teenager. Making beds and serving breakfast. She got paid £4/day, that would have been in the 1990s.

So you get the picture I'm painting of these people, they're not exactly poor.


We did that job a month ago now and they're only just after contacting me looking to pay me. This is after not wanting to pay me what I was asking to begin with.

And that's after them trying everything they could to not pay me for the first job I did for them. In the end I agreed to let them pay me cash for that first job in exchange for me not charging them the vat. I also allowed them €100 for the woodchip, which I sold.

So they ended up paying €1600 instead of €2200. For a three day job involving three people (4 on one day) and a chipper. 6 weeks after the job was done.


You want to know what's even better? They didn't look after the people whose property the trees fell on. They made them pay half my bill, didn't fix the shed or fix the lorry. They only fixed the damage to the house.


Those trees that fell into the hay shed that I mentioned earlier? They're still lying there, the farmer still can't use his hay shed. They wouldn't even cut overhanging branches stopping him from accessing his yard. I did that pro bono when I topped the cedar. They're waiting to get clearance from they're insurance before they do anything. They might not even get the insurance to pay. They probably won't.


So they have fcuked over two next door neighbours, pissed me off no end and generally made they're bad name worse.





I told him to leave the money in an envelope in the local filling station for me but he said "he won't get there today". It's 3 miles down the road.


I think I'm going to tell him to fcuk right off when he finally gets round to cutting the trees that are lying in the hay shed.


Oh and those Americans? They tipped us €200. Last time I did a job for them they tipped €50 and gave me an old dolmar saw.


Amazing isn't it? The locals with lots and lots of money won't pay they're neighbour who was charging them "mates rates" but the foreigners who I don't think have much always pay more than I ask.

 

[davidwyby]

 

[silveradol9h]

Okay, heres a story for you.
We did those two jobs on the same day.
One for some American blow-ins good half hour down the road and the other for some locals right beside me.

We only finished off the job for the Americans today. The priority was to get the trees on the ground, not to cut them up. They were in no panic to get the timber processed and the mess cleared.

The other job, the one for the locals was high priority. There was another storm promised and they texted me in a panic looking for that cedar tree reduced the next day.

I agreed to come to them the next day since they had been unlucky in the two previous storms. In storm Daragh in December three big leylandi trees belonging to them fell across the road and onto their neighbours house, shed and lorry. I think i posted pics of that job in this thread. In storm Eowyn in January another big leylandi tree belonging to them snapped off and crushed a different neighbours hay shed.

So I felt a bit sorry for them and came to reduce this other tree on short notice so it couldn't uproot or snap and cause more havoc. Plus, they're my neighbours and they're going to get me to cut the trees that fell into the hay shed, more on that later.

When I say they're locals, she's local. She grew up a little further down the road in a big old manor house but she spent a lot of her life in the UK. She makes designer clothes, she even made an outfit for lady gaga. He's from Dublin, south Dublin. That's the wealthy part of Dublin. He has a posh sounding second name, it's definitely far from the chainsaw that he grew up.

They bought this house half a mile from me on the urgings of her father.

I mentioned earlier that she grew up in an old manor house. That's her father's family. He has a posh second name, but he's still a Catholic. In Ireland there's a divide between catholics and protestants. It's not as a big a deal as it used to be but it's still there. The church of Ireland protestants are mostly descended from English settlers and are usually wealthier and have a reputation for meanness and keeping everything they can to themselves. They were the ruling estate here when Ireland was ruled by England. They're a small minority, most catholics don't  really consider them to be truly irish, at least implicitly. There's a lot of history there.

But this guy is a Catholic. Lives in a big fancy protestant house from hundreds of years ago, has some of the best land around and is rotten with money. He recently sold a commercial forest for 1.3 million. My friend aaron who works with me told me that his mother used to work in that house when she was a teenager. Making beds and serving breakfast. She got paid £4/day, that would have been in the 1990s.

So you get the picture I'm painting of these people, they're not exactly poor.


We did that job a month ago now and they're only just after contacting me looking to pay me. This is after not wanting to pay me what I was asking to begin with.

And that's after them trying everything they could to not pay me for the first job I did for them. In the end I agreed to let them pay me cash for that first job in exchange for me not charging them the vat. I also allowed them €100 for the woodchip, which I sold.

So they ended up paying €1600 instead of €2200. For a three day job involving three people (4 on one day) and a chipper. 6 weeks after the job was done.


You want to know what's even better? They didn't look after the people whose property the trees fell on. They made them pay half my bill, didn't fix the shed or fix the lorry. They only fixed the damage to the house.


Those trees that fell into the hay shed that I mentioned earlier? They're still lying there, the farmer still can't use his hay shed. They wouldn't even cut overhanging branches stopping him from accessing his yard. I did that pro bono when I topped the cedar. They're waiting to get clearance from they're insurance before they do anything. They might not even get the insurance to pay. They probably won't.


So they have fcuked over two next door neighbours, pissed me off no end and generally made they're bad name worse.

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I told him to leave the money in an envelope in the local filling station for me but he said "he won't get there today". It's 3 miles down the road.


I think I'm going to tell him to fcuk right off when he finally gets round to cutting the trees that are lying in the hay shed.


Oh and those Americans? They tipped us €200. Last time I did a job for them they tipped €50 and gave me an old dolmar saw.


Amazing isn't it? The locals with lots and lots of money won't pay they're neighbour who was charging them "mates rates" but the foreigners who I don't think have much always pay more than I ask.

Thats also very common here in the oilfield of ND. I dont deal with it much but my wife has her own hair salon here and she sees it all the time. The locals with all the oilwells on their property won't tip a dime but the folks that come here from out of state to work tip the best. And the locals are always the most rude and demanding. I dont think it was always that way here, but there have been too many generations now that didn't have to worry about real work and rely only on that oil check.