Cut wood in this heat that is. It's 75°F at sunrise with humidity in the high 80% range and supposed to hit the triple digit mark in the afternoons for the rest of the week, then the long range forcast says highs in the low 80's to mid 90's.
A property that I manage the ponds on was hit in the storms this past weekend and the owner wants me to clean up the place. Remove all the trees that are on the roads, drop all leaning trees and remove all the widowmakers that are hanging. He wants me to cut all the trees that got blown over so the stumps flop back and fill in the holes. 95% of the trees are Red/White Oak and Sugar Maple, with the rest a mixture of Sassafrass, River Birch and Big Tooth Aspen. Luckily I have the use of a JD4720 4/wd tractor with enclosed cab (a/c) and grapple bucket.
But, I can't sit in the A/C all day long. I figure that it'll take at least 4 weeks to do the clean up - there's well over 100 trees that got the tops blown out, snapped off or blown over, and there's another 20-25 dead Oaks around the ponds that he wants dropped and cleaned up too. The trees in the woods I can leave, just get the rootballs cut off. (ain't looking forward to that) I'm not looking a gift horse in the mouth with all the free wood (and get paid to clean it up), but I just wish that it would have happened when it was cooler out. Most of the trees are 12"-30" DBH. They're calling it straight line winds, but there's a path thru the woods in 2 places where trees are dropped/tops ripped off/uprooted and the trees fell anywhere from 9:00 to Noon to 3:00 if you were to describe how they fell by using the face of a clock.
Just 2 weekends ago I brought home 8 loads of River Birch that I cleared out this Spring and now this. (40' long, 40,000# rated pintle hook trailer behind a KW 7 yd dump truck). Still have to cut that up and split it too before it rots........
I figure start at 5 a.m. and quit by noon. Any tips for cutting in the heat?
A property that I manage the ponds on was hit in the storms this past weekend and the owner wants me to clean up the place. Remove all the trees that are on the roads, drop all leaning trees and remove all the widowmakers that are hanging. He wants me to cut all the trees that got blown over so the stumps flop back and fill in the holes. 95% of the trees are Red/White Oak and Sugar Maple, with the rest a mixture of Sassafrass, River Birch and Big Tooth Aspen. Luckily I have the use of a JD4720 4/wd tractor with enclosed cab (a/c) and grapple bucket.
But, I can't sit in the A/C all day long. I figure that it'll take at least 4 weeks to do the clean up - there's well over 100 trees that got the tops blown out, snapped off or blown over, and there's another 20-25 dead Oaks around the ponds that he wants dropped and cleaned up too. The trees in the woods I can leave, just get the rootballs cut off. (ain't looking forward to that) I'm not looking a gift horse in the mouth with all the free wood (and get paid to clean it up), but I just wish that it would have happened when it was cooler out. Most of the trees are 12"-30" DBH. They're calling it straight line winds, but there's a path thru the woods in 2 places where trees are dropped/tops ripped off/uprooted and the trees fell anywhere from 9:00 to Noon to 3:00 if you were to describe how they fell by using the face of a clock.
Just 2 weekends ago I brought home 8 loads of River Birch that I cleared out this Spring and now this. (40' long, 40,000# rated pintle hook trailer behind a KW 7 yd dump truck). Still have to cut that up and split it too before it rots........
I figure start at 5 a.m. and quit by noon. Any tips for cutting in the heat?