Spent the last two days doing some tree removal. 4 Silver maple, 1 oak, 1 gumball, and topping 1 elm.
Silver maple #1. Camera angle carefully hides the less-than-perfect stump.
Silver maple #2. Rather proud of this stump/notch/hinge.
Monster oak - I forgot to put a tape on this one. I bet it's 4 1/2 feet across.
I had intended it to fall directly towards my truck, but it went to the right.
Here's the stump and notch. You can see there was a bit of rotten wood to that side. There was also a few branches pulling it that direction. I tried to leave a bit more holding wood on the other side to help keep it straight, but I guess it wasn't enough.
2 of my sons helping, and a nice view of that big oak. Ever since I started doing a bit of milling, I now see all these logs for their milling value rather than their firewood value. Wish I had a bandsaw mill now, and room to do it all (and a market to sell the slabs!)
The other trees weren't worth taking photos of, except the big gumball in the front yard. Forgot to get any pics except for the one with my boys working. Had a house and power line to work around, but all came down well and safely.
Silver maple #1. Camera angle carefully hides the less-than-perfect stump.
Silver maple #2. Rather proud of this stump/notch/hinge.
Monster oak - I forgot to put a tape on this one. I bet it's 4 1/2 feet across.
I had intended it to fall directly towards my truck, but it went to the right.
Here's the stump and notch. You can see there was a bit of rotten wood to that side. There was also a few branches pulling it that direction. I tried to leave a bit more holding wood on the other side to help keep it straight, but I guess it wasn't enough.
2 of my sons helping, and a nice view of that big oak. Ever since I started doing a bit of milling, I now see all these logs for their milling value rather than their firewood value. Wish I had a bandsaw mill now, and room to do it all (and a market to sell the slabs!)
The other trees weren't worth taking photos of, except the big gumball in the front yard. Forgot to get any pics except for the one with my boys working. Had a house and power line to work around, but all came down well and safely.
