chads
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THe Insurance company gave me a few choices on this tree and if I wanted insurance to cover the property it had to go.
It is a troublesome cottonwood tree anyway being messy and full if fluff in the spring and next to the garage.
After getting a few estimates that were out of sight. I decided to save a few thousand bucks and hired a helper to get it down.
I took a few of the large limbs off the back side so we could get it to fall the right way and miss the garage.
THe ash to the right was dying and it came down too.
Not sure if it was hollow we chained it before cutting it.
THe 460 was doing pretty good with the 36" bar and was going to town till it spit the starter rope out on the back cut and it got cut off.
Being that far along I had to keep going. It stalled or ran out of gas and I had trouble getting the bar all the way out without it running.
I had to remove the head and finish it off with the Makita 6401.
I rolled one of the rounds to the street and painted free wood on it.
A few minutes later the neighbor dropped by with a 1/2 ton pickup and hauled 5 loads that night.
A few weeks and a bunch of rain later he said he had gotten 11 or 12 loads out. A few other people pulled 2 trucks and a big trailer or two out.
I ended up with the big rounds from the fork down that no one could get on the truck or really even move without a tractor.
I'm guessing they were about 3-400 lb.
THe 460 got a new starter cover and was good to go again so I went over and started to noodle them up.
I took pic as I was waiting for the neighbor to return from unloading.
He got 4 one layer loads of the blocks that day but the truck was not rounded over since he was 4 houses down he just made more trips so he could just slide them off easily.
THe blocks look small but after handling a couple alone we opted to do the rest together.
I wonder how many cord they got from the tree.
Chad
It is a troublesome cottonwood tree anyway being messy and full if fluff in the spring and next to the garage.
After getting a few estimates that were out of sight. I decided to save a few thousand bucks and hired a helper to get it down.
I took a few of the large limbs off the back side so we could get it to fall the right way and miss the garage.
THe ash to the right was dying and it came down too.
Not sure if it was hollow we chained it before cutting it.
THe 460 was doing pretty good with the 36" bar and was going to town till it spit the starter rope out on the back cut and it got cut off.
Being that far along I had to keep going. It stalled or ran out of gas and I had trouble getting the bar all the way out without it running.
I had to remove the head and finish it off with the Makita 6401.
I rolled one of the rounds to the street and painted free wood on it.
A few minutes later the neighbor dropped by with a 1/2 ton pickup and hauled 5 loads that night.
A few weeks and a bunch of rain later he said he had gotten 11 or 12 loads out. A few other people pulled 2 trucks and a big trailer or two out.
I ended up with the big rounds from the fork down that no one could get on the truck or really even move without a tractor.
I'm guessing they were about 3-400 lb.
THe 460 got a new starter cover and was good to go again so I went over and started to noodle them up.
I took pic as I was waiting for the neighbor to return from unloading.
He got 4 one layer loads of the blocks that day but the truck was not rounded over since he was 4 houses down he just made more trips so he could just slide them off easily.
THe blocks look small but after handling a couple alone we opted to do the rest together.
I wonder how many cord they got from the tree.
Chad
