Really ugly trees

[ronT2]

Happy birthday Mark, looks like a fun day along with a few tense moments thrown in for good measure.

 

[andrethegiant70]

Fall is my favorite season and you got a really nice example. That day looks perfect, Mark.

Lots of folks watch football in the fall.... I never bother. There's way too much other good stuff going on outside and winter's coming fast!

 

[heimannm]

Josh hasn't done much felling on his own, I'm not sure where he got the idea that was how it should be done but I tried to coach him the rest of the day to keep it more horizontal.

Someone in this area has done a lot of tree removal with that sort of back cut so there are a lot of stumps that look like that. I think the theory is/was it was less likely to set back on you, not sure why they thought that.

My camera is a Nikon Coolpix, my kids gave it to me for Fathers Day a couple of years ago. If I'd learned how to use it 10 seconds faster the first photo I ever took with it would have been the tornado passing over our little town.

Mark

 

[wendell]

Happy Belated Birthday!! :biggrinbounce2:

 

[warjohn]

Good job getting them all down with no damage.

 

[rmh3481]

Very nice Mark! Looks like you couldnt have had a nicer day to spend your Birthday. Hope you had some fun afterall.

Best wishes,
Bob

 

[thomas72]

Looks like a full day of work. Let me guess, you had a 8n tractor hooked to the tree.

 

[Sprintcar]

Fine way to spend the day. I hate them maples, found everything from rocks, nails, fence wire wrapped on itself, never found any money, maybe may luck will change. Good job guys.

Tell Jeff I was waiting for the picture of the Timberbear flying through the air.

 

[heimannm]

Thomas - AC D17, not much better than an 8N however.

Jerry - I have personally addressed those 600 Series saws, they all start quite reliably. We have one (650) that actually starts on the first pull every time. I suspect someone may have deceived us and put an XL under the Mac dress.

I have an old wrench and a rail road spike that I found in the ashes of the wood furnace...some how I managed to miss them when cutting up the tree. Of course these came from maple trees.

Somewhere up in this corner of the state there are stories of the civil war long gun found in a tree...apparently someone leaned the gun against a tree and never took it up again, over time the tree simply grew around it.

For those that cut wood in the forest, you have no idea what you can discover when cutting into a farm or city tree. Over the years a lot of the city trees will have been "doctored" with wires and cables, lead patches, concrete fillings, etc., etc. When the Weber crew took down the first big sycamore across the street, we hit something iron in the tree about 30' up where the limb was still over 21" diameter.

Mark

 

[sefh3]

At this point it's all done but the cutting, splitting, and cleaning up but since the football game is about to start, I must head for home and listen to the radio as Iowa beats Michigan in the Big House.

Great photos and thanks for posting them. We'll just ingore this comment here.

I'm was hoping to see some of those big Mac's in action for the bucking duties.

 

[heimannm]

Has it really been more than a year???

Returned to Doug Reuscher's today to help him get some wood ready for winter. From earlier in this thread you can see that we started on some of the big, old, ugly maple trees at Doug's last year.

First up, again a leaner, but with the corn out of the field we could just drop it where it wanted to go.

The SP105 was the weapon of choice for the heavy work today...

One down, a few more to go.

Mark

 

[heimannm]

Next up, another leaner but this one wanted to go into the yard. No problem with that.

This one is a bit hollow as well...

And there it goes...I am back behind the tree out of harms way

Two down

Mark

 

[pioneerguy600]

Nice picts Mark,...you shure have a lot of limbs to contend with.Good firewood though, thanks for posting the picts.

 

[heimannm]

The next two were leaners as well, but not exactly where we wanted them to go so we didn't get any photo's of them in progress. Doug hooked up the tractor (tuned up this year so it was running much better than last time out).

Here they are laid out end to end...again they were ugly.

Mark

 

[heimannm]

That's very typical of yard trees around here Jerry. They just grow up like weeds and can get pretty unruly.

I had a big surprise while bucking up one of the big stems today. As I was cutting I noticed a wad of fur in the kerf, thought I must have hit some kind of nest in the hollow tree but couldn't image a bunch of grey squirrels in this part of the state. Next thing I knew a large raccoon appeared out of a hole. I guess the bark of my McCulloch SP81 convinced him not to argue with me as he just took off. That was a first for me, never had one ride it to the ground and wait for me to come along to chase him out.

That's where he was...

Doug was helping today with his 026, nice little saw for contending with a lot of limbing on a project like this.

This one was around 30" in diameter but the PM800 and SP81 with 28" bars made short work of it.

And there you go, PM800, SP81, SP70, SP105, and the SP60 for the little stuff.

Mark

 

[NORMZILLA44]

Nice picture's Mark. I love take down's. For sure with hollow stump's, and rot for holding would, it doesn't alway's go where you plan. Been there many time's. You are wise to have pulled some.

 

[Kenskip1]

Ugly trees

Around here we have a few. This one is a dead oak.The first picture is from my phone, the others from my box brownie,however I now have a front porch filled with nice burning oak Ken

 

[heimannm]

I did use the new Dolmar 7900 for some of the work today and it is really nice and smooth, but I think it lack the grunt of the PM800 or SP81.

At one point Doug was running his relatively new 460 and I had the 7900 going. We traded for a few cuts to compare...the 460 had a chain that really needed sharpening and I had a bit of a time getting my saw back...

I was working up another stem, this one took all of the 32" bar. Those ugly old rotting maples are still rather hard on the chain however so some time before the third tank of fuel was completely gone I called it quits and headed for home in time to meet the technician replacing the LCD in my notebook computer. Good service contract we have at work...

Making sure the chain is oiling up properly.

Getting it done.

And that's all folks...

Mark

 

[heimannm]

Ken - A few weeks ago I drove from Dallas to College Station and back one week. I saw a lot of similar looking trees just begging for attention. No lack of chainsaw opportunities in the Lone Star state.

Mark

 

[Kenskip1]

Mark, How right you are.I have access to more free fire wood here in Texas than I did when I was in NY.Mesquite can be sold as fast as it is split and stacked.This is all Mesquite, Ken

Same for this