Rudolf73
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What's up Aussie brother's! Hello from the redwood country.
Just enjoying the nice warm winter weather, how are things in Cali ?
What's up Aussie brother's! Hello from the redwood country.
Whats the go with owh weather one day its that windy it would blow a dog of his chain, then freeze ya ass off the next and then today 22 deg C swettin ya ring out cuttin wood.Supposed to rain the next three days,cant win.:msp_mad:
I was traveling this weekend so was unable to wish you all a Happy Picnic Day and Bank Holiday.
My apologies. :hmm3grin2orange:
Whats the go with owh weather one day its that windy it would blow a dog of his chain, then freeze ya ass off the next and then today 22 deg C swettin ya ring out cuttin wood.Supposed to rain the next three days,cant win.:msp_mad:
Move up to Queensland Andrew, nice and warm
And in summer Rudy?
Have a summer house in Tasmania, I hear they have some nice trees also
But here where I am in Toowoomba its not so bad actually, in summer its gets to about 35C max and around 0C minimum in winter. Humidity isn't so bad either.
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Got an address at the Tassie house avail please mate?
Have a summer house in Tasmania, I hear they have some nice trees also
But here where I am in Toowoomba its not so bad actually, in summer its gets to about 35C max and around 0C minimum in winter. Humidity isn't so bad either.
Yeah Tassie does certainly have some nice trees
Have a few photos of the weekend's work. I was asked by the overall group manager to go to a different property this time which is a much younger orchard with only small Casuarina windbreaks. Basically the manager wanted a few areas felled to improve vehicle access between patches of the same citrus variety - this simply improves efficiency when picking and moving picking bins around. Easy job, under an hour and probably about 8 trees per spot in 4 areas. The 261 and Stihl RSC was used and on a few occasions I had the thing actually cutting through sand so I could stump them down low enough to not interfere with vehicle movement. Full chisel and dirt does not mix. By the time I'd finished with less than 1/4 tank of fuel the chain was shot. Quick grind when I got home and all was good...
One of the areas where I cleaned up the smaller trees. I also had to avoid dripline while cutting...
Later that day (Sunday) I headed back out to the other property about 50km away but only knocked over about 5 trees before I called it quits. The employee who got excited and dropped the remainder of the N/S rows has really made by job difficult. Due to a strong N/W wind that came in about 2 minutes after I arrived I had to head home as it was getting too dangerous and difficult. If he had have left a few bloody N/S trees left I could move around depending on the wind.
For example this quite large tree had 3" of wedge lift yet still refused to topple into the slight headwind and against a reasonable lean - to make it easier to drag these trees out they all have to be felled in a specific direction. I had to bore cut a bit of the hinge to finally get it to go over. I pulled the pin after this one as without a lie there would have been over 100 wedge strikes to topple it - with a good flu kicking in I was well and truly stuffed and even had the next day off work I was that stiff and sore. After this tree dropped I sat down and took about 10 minutes to recover. This is the first time ever that I've had to whip out 12" wedges, double stack them, yet still not get the tree over!
The worst bit was that when I was pulling the saw out of the bore cut I clipped both wedges with the chain and shot them both out the back of the cut - the tree just sat there into a slight headwind with a gaping backcut yet no wedges to hold it. To say I shat myself was an understatement as I was expecting a gust of wind to hit it head on any second and have it topple over backwards, shearing the hinge off completely in the process. Luckily it decided to fall the right way as I scrambled to get more wedges into the backcut...
Your a determined man
Next you will be putting a scissor type porta power in the back cut
It may just be the angle of the picture Matt but it appears you have your top wedge stacked directly on top of the bottom one. Much better to angle them about 45 degrees offset from each other so they aren't as likely to shoot out.
Am looking at adapting a 25 tonne barrel jack
Are you going to turn the back cut into a large notch to get the jack in their?
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