Cutting a havy leaner

[Whitespider]

Yes. Your tax dollars...

I have had close calls...

Go back to "your" forum where the other elite hang out.
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[slowp]

If memory serves me, didn't you once post a comment regarding never personally dropping big trees yourself?


If I am wrong, lets see some pics to critique your work.

You don't have to have "dropped" a big tree to know what is the right thing to do. If one sees something that is obviously not safe, one should try to let the unsafe one know, faller or not. And don't get all worked up over the emoticon. I use it on the logging forum too for the fallers.

 

[Whitespider]

You don't have...

Go way already.
Christ... you're like a bad penny carryin' the plaque.
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[stihly dan]

Box elder is not the same as ash but it's bark is a clone. Last fall I helped process an 85-yr-old leaning ash tree that died suddenly. I thought I had some really good firewood until I tried to split it. The years and years of leaning had twisted the grain so badly that it stalled out a 30-ton splitter. We tried everything to save it and had to give up. I'll let it dry all summer and try again, but that stuff could be bon fire bound.

It chips off near the perimeter so that doesn't work either. I've read that the twist is caused by the tree trying to straighten up. Enormous internal stress builds up and the cellulose literally goes berserk, almost like a burl. This is the first ash tree that I've encountered that did this. Elm is far more common.

noodle time for some big block overnighters.

 

[cantoo]

slowp, just go away. You add nothing that anyone wants to know here. I had high hopes for awhile but then you came back. I don't really care about the "Like" button but I sure would like a "Eject" button.

 

[Whitespider]

slowp, just go away.

Yeah slowp
Don't move come here
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[Greenthorn]

Some people just don't care, we have people run cones over and drive right on through all the time.

Exactley, had a car swerve around our dump truck and cones one day, missed me by 3 feet doing 30 mph, just drove right on through.
Some drivers are just oblivious to the fact of what damage a vehicle can actually do, and should never be allowed to drive.
You can only be "so" safe or "so" prepared, and there's ALWAYS a possibility of some other being to **** you up.


Oh yeah, forgot the Obligatory..."nice job!" c5

 

[Gypo Logger]

Looks like a good job on the falling felling job. The only other thing I would have done is plunge a bar tip width thru the centre of the holding wood before doing the back cut.
With heavy leaners I usually keep cutting till the tree is well committed so as to reduce butt shatter and fibre pull.

 

[c5rulz]

Looks like a good job on the falling felling job. The only other thing I would have done is plunge a bar tip width thru the centre of the holding wood before doing the back cut.
With heavy leaners I usually keep cutting till the tree is well committed so as to reduce butt shatter and fibre pull.

A good friend is a faller and has a class "C" certification. He has worked forest fires for decades across the county. He looked at the tree a week earlier and advised against bore cutting this one fearing that the stress on this tree could easily bind the bar in the tree. My initial plan was to bore cut it until he recommended against it. He use bore cuts most of the time and sets with wedges. He cuts with safety in mind rather than production

 

[Gypo Logger]

A good friend is a faller and has a class "C" certification. He has worked forest fires for decades across the county. He looked at the tree a week earlier and advised against bore cutting this one fearing that the stress on this tree could easily bind the bar in the tree. My initial plan was to bore cut it until he recommended against it. He use bore cuts most of the time and sets with wedges. He cuts with safety in mind rather than production

Correct, now that I saw the extreme lean one may be wrong to plunge out the heart, but if the tree were sound you could still make you first cut as a plunge behind what would be your holding wood before cutting your face which would be steep but shallow.
Another way to reduce the weight of a heavy leaner is to aim the tree a few degrees away from its natural lean if space allows.

 

[Gypo Logger]

BTW, who has been causing the trouble here? Lol

 

[svk]

slowp, just go away. You add nothing that anyone wants to know here. I had high hopes for awhile but then you came back. I don't really care about the "Like" button but I sure would like a "Eject" button.

The sad thing is that she does have value to add to certain conversations but instead chooses to post purposely inflammatory statements and troll this place.

 

[Gypo Logger]

The sad thing is that she does have value to add to certain conversations but instead chooses to post purposely inflammatory statements and troll this place.

She probably just needs a good spanking. Lol

 

[brenndatomu]

If memory serves me, didn't you once post a comment regarding never personally dropping big trees yourself?


If I am wrong, lets see some pics to critique your work.

I find it a lot easier to just get logs delivered.

 

[Westboastfaller]

BTW, who has been causing the trouble here? Lol

Lol, WHO? lets just say you have company this week.

At AS we don't have a forum @$$hole...
'We all' take turns.

OMG...did you say somebody cut their face?

My turn my turn after this.
See if my arrogant condescending ways come through in my upcoming advisory.
I been known to ruffle a few feather..
Hell my user name was enough to ruffle feather 'here' but I suppose a part of me knew that.

 

[Ironworker]

And yet I still know enough to not let a bicyclist ride under a tree that's in the process of being removed, what's your point.

 

[Gypo Logger]

Lol, WHO? lets just say you have company this week.

At AS we don't have a forum @$$hole...
'We all' take turns.

OMG...did you say somebody cut there face?

My turn my turn after this.
See if my arrogant condescending ways come through in my upcoming advisory.
I been known to ruffle a few feather..
Hell my user name was enough to ruffle feather 'here' but I suppose a part of me knew that.

Ya, I did say I cut my face, but it was a shallow but steep cut so was hinged down and holding by a fibre. Lol

 

[old CB]

A year or so back I needed to drop a tree across a road, not terribly unusual. I had cones and live help watching for traffic. Had just dropped the thing when a UPS guy pulls up and jumps out—those guys can’t sit still. I told him I’d have the way clear in 3–4 minutes, but he wanted to help. Didn’t need the help, but it made him feel better to do something. And I had him on his way in no time.

A couple days later the same UPS guy brought a package to my place. When I opened the door he seemed surprised to see me and blurted out, “Don’t you have roads to be blocking?” LOL.

 

[olyman]

We cut stuff into the road everyday.....set up cones and go to work. Sometimes we block the road right off for a few and drop it right across the road and then cut it up in a few pieces and move it with the skidsteer so its not blocking the road and open it back up. A side street we'll just block right off until we're done.

good reply to knowitall

 

[olyman]

If memory serves me, didn't you once post a comment regarding never personally dropping big trees yourself?


If I am wrong, lets see some pics to critique your work.