Went to the scrounge site today with my younger brother and my son. Plan was to drop a fairly large 110 ft tall with large crown 28 dbh oak, a 20 dbh beech, a 20 dbh oak, and take 1 load out for younger brother. Other than nobody getting hurt, or any equipment getting destroyed, everything went wrong. 1st tree was the big oak, we put a rope on it about 40' up and used a block and tackle to another tree with the loaded truck in 4 low pulling. Tree still went backwards into the beech 4 ft away. The truck could not pull it off. So I put the ladder on the completely cut oak hung up on the beech, to untie the rope, and retied it on the bottom. Thought I might be able to pull it off the stump, nope. In the end I very reluctantly and cautiously stood under both trees and carefully cut the beech tree down. They came down with a wicked crash, no barber chair but they snapped a 12 dbh maple in two, half way up. Also uprooted a 15 dbh hemlock, another 12 dbh maple and has a 10 dbh maple bent like a C along with a few other pecker poles. What a flippen mess. I did get about 30 ft of each big trunk bucked after. And on the plus side we now have a few more trees to take out of there. I do need a few whisky's to calm the nerves as it was high stress for me anyway, so many variables the could have gone wrong resulting in injury. Still have the rest of the trees still to tackle so nock on wood.
