Trees you've cut

[TheDarkLordChinChin]

Now THATS more like it!


Big beech trees beside a house and a cottage.

We did a job for this woman in August, cutting up big windblown cedar and beech/sycamore trees in her garden. She wanted any taken down that could reach any of her buildings.


Her property is located on the highest point of the parish. Its very exposed. Its surrounded by cut and replanted forestries. It over looks a big lake.


She had 16k worth of damage to her buildings after storm eowyn in January.


Today there were 80mph winds forecast. Id say they got up to 60 or 70mph at the peak. We had gusts of 40 and 50mph helping us with these trees. For once the wind was blowing in the right direction.














Beech hinges pretty good.

 

[TheDarkLordChinChin]

The biggest tree.


I hit metal in my back cut.




Husqvarna 394xp with 36 inch bar






She sat up quite high when she landed.





Big old tree.





Another good one.





We got paid and get to keep the timber. Its will be April or may before the ground is dry enough to get it out.

 

[davidwyby]

nice, big stuff

 

[lehman live edge slab]

Large white pine i cut last spring for a coworker at his cabin. When I cut the stump I had about 1” of bar sticking out of other side of stump on my 066 wirh a 36” bar and large factory dogs. It was touching the eve on the sauna next to it and had to miss the little porch by lake. He hooked a cable to it just a safety, was leaning well and could have gotten without one but just in case.

 

[SawAddictedFarmer]

We had something like that it was a shingle oak 3ft across that had rotted out the middle and one side. I was like 14 and just grabbed a saw and started cutting and realized real quick it wasn't going were I thought I was. I got away uninjured and plenty scared enough not to do something that stupid again.

 

[Nathan lassley]

Dropped an ash and a cedar yesterday, first time in a long time that I've felt like falling anything but I have been enjoying bucking with our new ms462 which is a pretty sweet saw. I did this with my 372 clone.

 

[Nathan lassley]

Asbestos national forest?

The Sierra national Forest was called that because most fires never got big then an area that hadn't burned in 120 years went up all at once.

 

[TheDarkLordChinChin]

We topped these two cedars today.
Pretty standard job for us.

Before





After





Cedar tapers off fast. There was only 20 foot of tree left above this cut.





A stem must have torn out of this tree at some point. This tear was about 12 or 15 feet long.

 

[ferris]

Nice work, but I really don’t understand these people. Why do they want to cut off the upper part of a tree

 

[Hinerman]

Nice work, but I really don’t understand these people. Why do they want to cut off the upper part of a tree

see pg 243, post# 4855

 

[TheDarkLordChinChin]

Nice work, but I really don’t understand these people. Why do they want to cut off the upper part of a tree

I dont ask questions anymore!

 

[TheDarkLordChinChin]

Awkward, rotting, ivy clad ash trees.

Buildings, gates, fences and power lines all around.

I had to get out 2/3 of the way along this twig, throw the rigging rope further out and around the branch, get the tag end back, tie a running bow line, pull it tight and then cut the branch off close to where I was positioned.





We couldn't drop or lower the very end piece as it would have hit either the insulated power line, the roof of the shed or both.

We had a pulley set higher up and on the furthest away stem.

I cut an open face on the top of the branch and then cut up from the bottom while the men on the ground pulled up.

This way we managed to clear all the hazards.






Just not simple. I used two ropes and two tie in points because the tree had ash die back and I didn't trust it 100%.

The silky is a great tool. Great for pulling ropes back to you, great for quickly getting rid of annoying twigs and great for cutting stuff without the noise and danger of the saw. Sometimes there's just too much ropes, climbing and rigging gear and general clutter in the tree to safely use the chainsaw. Not all that often, but sometimes.

Here im using the silky to retrieve the rigging rope after throwing it around a branch out further than I intended to travel myself.





Look at all the woodlice under tge ivy.

 

[davidwyby]

Mostly easy minus the odd rotten one that tries to kill you. Siberian elms again, similar to cottonwood with its wet, stinky fibrous mess, and propensity to rot.

 

[davidwyby]

 

[TheDarkLordChinChin]

Mostly easy minus the odd rotten one that tries to kill you. Siberian elms again, similar to cottonwood with its wet, stinky fibrous mess, and propensity to rot. View attachment 477941View attachment 477942View attachment 477943View attachment 477944View attachment 477945

Which jonesred is that?

 

[davidwyby]

Which jonesred is that?

2188= 390 by @Stump Shot

Just realized I forgot to send you your Christmas present…

 

[Outback]

Looks like a 2188.

 

[Maintenance Chief]

Mostly easy minus the odd rotten one that tries to kill you. Siberian elms again, similar to cottonwood with its wet, stinky fibrous mess, and propensity to rot. View attachment 477941View attachment 477942View attachment 477943View attachment 477944View attachment 477945

Those Husqvarna axes are my favorite.

 

[Fleethirte]

I didnt cut it down but had to cut it smaller so the tractor could pick it up. Peacon tree that used up the 36 inch bar on the 880 clone i put together

 

[davidwyby]

Those Husqvarna axes are my favorite.

I don’t love it but I don’t hate it. It doesn’t have a soul because it’s not wood but can’t break it. Long way from home, only bring one axe, have to depend on it, hard poll. Decent splitter for what it is and good chopper. According to Ben Scott on the Tube, if you were only going to buy one axe, this would be the one, and I agree. I want to try filling the handle with foam and see if it dampens vibrations, supposed to,