MN Ripper
ArboristSite Operative
Haven't been on AS a lot this summer but thought I'd make a new post. Started this spring with clearing a nearby landowners 40 acre property of all the damaged trees he had, this land had not been cut on by anyone else other than the landowner and he had not cut in many years. Its mainly red oak and sugar maple, but I got some cherry and elm from it too. I picked away at it on Saturday mornings when I had time by balancing some cutting and hauling it out to the road with a friends ATV or my own garden tractor & cart where I could transfer it to my truck/trailer. Sometimes my friend came too when he had time and I shared some firewood with him for all his help.
Most trees were just large poles with the tops laying on the ground nearby (like the one in the video below) or worse still attached at the break point. Any tree on the ground or the main standing trunk collecting rain like a funnel I made my priority. I'm used to just cutting logs that the tree service drops off for my firewood so this was a nice change of pace to get some practice felling and cutting different ways than I normally do and each one was a different challenge. I filled more than what I need for a winters worth of firewood this past weekend so I only will go back a few more times this year to finish a few remaining trees. Next year there are more broken and standing dead ones to continue on with.
I treated myself to a new saw mid summer so that has added to the fun too. I'm throwing in picture of an average Saturday haul for me in this picture it was cherry at the time of the picture and I know everyone likes videos so I'm including that too, one I made for my brother in law in TX-who says whats a Dolmar?
[video=youtube;Z0gEXnGy754]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0gEXnGy754[/video]
Most trees were just large poles with the tops laying on the ground nearby (like the one in the video below) or worse still attached at the break point. Any tree on the ground or the main standing trunk collecting rain like a funnel I made my priority. I'm used to just cutting logs that the tree service drops off for my firewood so this was a nice change of pace to get some practice felling and cutting different ways than I normally do and each one was a different challenge. I filled more than what I need for a winters worth of firewood this past weekend so I only will go back a few more times this year to finish a few remaining trees. Next year there are more broken and standing dead ones to continue on with.
I treated myself to a new saw mid summer so that has added to the fun too. I'm throwing in picture of an average Saturday haul for me in this picture it was cherry at the time of the picture and I know everyone likes videos so I'm including that too, one I made for my brother in law in TX-who says whats a Dolmar?
[video=youtube;Z0gEXnGy754]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0gEXnGy754[/video]