gr8scott72
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My friend had a large oak blow over at his house a couple of days ago when a storm passed through. There was actually one good sized area near there that was affected. Several big trees down.
This tree was about 36" at the base and about 10' - 12' up (out I guess, now) split into 2 sections that were about 28" each. It had smashed through 4 different yards and almost took out the back deck on the 4th house.
They started with about 8 guys at about 8:00 with 2 of them having chainsaws. I showed up about 8:30 with my 394xp.
I was a little late because I had just delivered this for $150 total to two people:
They had most of the small branches already cut up and some of them already to the road. I was going to take pictures of the tree but they already had alot of it cut plus it was raining. Nasty day. We had to move the wood about 40 yards to the front street as it was way too wet to get the trailer to the back.
We loaded the truck and trailer up pretty good and I took it home.l I didn't take pictures of the 1st load in the trailer but this picture shows it. There was some on the ground here already but not much.
Came back with wheelbarrow and started loading up again.
Here's the 2nd load:
Went back for a 3rd and final load but didn't take pictures of it. Only the trailer was loaded completely full with just one layer.
My friend also took 2 truck bed loads to one of the other guys that was helping.
By the time we got done, we were down to me and 2 other guys. I swear one of them was related to Hercules. Geez he could through some wood around.
Here's the last chunk I cut and the root ball (and ME):
I unloaded the 3rd trip at about 4:30 so that's a solid 9 hours with the only breaks being the trips to unload. I didn't even stop for lunch. (got my belly full of chilly now tho)
Full day, but I'm already feeling it. I'm gonna be hurtin in the morning.
This tree was about 36" at the base and about 10' - 12' up (out I guess, now) split into 2 sections that were about 28" each. It had smashed through 4 different yards and almost took out the back deck on the 4th house.
They started with about 8 guys at about 8:00 with 2 of them having chainsaws. I showed up about 8:30 with my 394xp.
I was a little late because I had just delivered this for $150 total to two people:
They had most of the small branches already cut up and some of them already to the road. I was going to take pictures of the tree but they already had alot of it cut plus it was raining. Nasty day. We had to move the wood about 40 yards to the front street as it was way too wet to get the trailer to the back.
We loaded the truck and trailer up pretty good and I took it home.l I didn't take pictures of the 1st load in the trailer but this picture shows it. There was some on the ground here already but not much.
Came back with wheelbarrow and started loading up again.
Here's the 2nd load:
Went back for a 3rd and final load but didn't take pictures of it. Only the trailer was loaded completely full with just one layer.
My friend also took 2 truck bed loads to one of the other guys that was helping.
By the time we got done, we were down to me and 2 other guys. I swear one of them was related to Hercules. Geez he could through some wood around.
Here's the last chunk I cut and the root ball (and ME):
I unloaded the 3rd trip at about 4:30 so that's a solid 9 hours with the only breaks being the trips to unload. I didn't even stop for lunch. (got my belly full of chilly now tho)
Full day, but I'm already feeling it. I'm gonna be hurtin in the morning.
Boy I bet that truck didn't want to stop to well did it. (been there) 
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