Steve NW WI
Unwanted Riff Raff.
A friend of mine is the property maintenance guy at a local business. He asked if I'd help with some down trees in return for the wood. I said sure, figured even if it was all junk wood, it's still wood, and it's the friendly thing to do.
We got out there this morning, and on the first drive around, there were a couple red oaks, at least one white oak, some cherries, a bunch of elm, and of course some box elder.
(Sorry guys, no on site pics unless I get the owner's OK, don't want to do anything to tick him off.)
We started on a big red oak limb that was blocking a trail, I got the 7300 hung up trying to cut it off the tree, and I had to pull the bar and chain off. First time in a long time I've had to do that, but I'm sure it ain't the last. I was missing my tractor, the pickup couldn't pull the whole limb out of the brush it was in, I had to wade in and cut it out in sections to get it out in the open, but it wasn't bad compared to having to block it up in the blackberry thicket it was laying in!
After that, it went pretty uneventfully, and in 2 1/2 hours round trip, counting goof off time, stuck saw time, and scouting time, I was home with this nice load of red oak:
It was nice to have help, and he enjoys doing this sort of stuff as well. Bonus: he could actually keep the cuts the size I wanted (20" or so), most of my help can't!
He's off tomorrow and Monday, hopefully get back there on Tuesday for another load. I'm betting we can have a load in my driveway in a shade over an hour if we work at it, now that we have a bit of a system.
We got out there this morning, and on the first drive around, there were a couple red oaks, at least one white oak, some cherries, a bunch of elm, and of course some box elder.
(Sorry guys, no on site pics unless I get the owner's OK, don't want to do anything to tick him off.)
We started on a big red oak limb that was blocking a trail, I got the 7300 hung up trying to cut it off the tree, and I had to pull the bar and chain off. First time in a long time I've had to do that, but I'm sure it ain't the last. I was missing my tractor, the pickup couldn't pull the whole limb out of the brush it was in, I had to wade in and cut it out in sections to get it out in the open, but it wasn't bad compared to having to block it up in the blackberry thicket it was laying in!
After that, it went pretty uneventfully, and in 2 1/2 hours round trip, counting goof off time, stuck saw time, and scouting time, I was home with this nice load of red oak:
It was nice to have help, and he enjoys doing this sort of stuff as well. Bonus: he could actually keep the cuts the size I wanted (20" or so), most of my help can't!
He's off tomorrow and Monday, hopefully get back there on Tuesday for another load. I'm betting we can have a load in my driveway in a shade over an hour if we work at it, now that we have a bit of a system.
