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These trees where cut by clearing crews for the power company. 2 or 3 of those trees are close to 50-60ft long. White oak, red oak and a mystery tree I thought was a beech, but looking at it up close I aint sure. All firewood. I used my homemade skidding winch behind a tractor to get the trees out of the woods and onto the road and then just skidded them down the main hiway to my house. Broke the amsteel rope twice right in the middle of the road and on the last tree, I bent the safety hook rendering it useless. I have ordered a couple of tube type thimbles to install in the rope and hope that will prevent the hook from cutting the rope.
While I was getting the trees, I had to set halfway in the hyway with the tractor loader. I had a flagger directing traffic but I had one guy just about pizz me off. He stopped directly in front of the tractor blocking the road and almost in contact with the loader bucket. I started yelling at my flagger to tell him to get out of the way, I was winching off a steep bank and I wanted to pull up incase the tree took off down the bank and hit the tractor. He had me trapped in a bad spot because I had already winched the tree to the edge of the drop off and I really needed to move the tractor. After yelling some more for him to move he finally figured out I needed him to move and lurched ahead and then pulled off the side of the road getting out of the car. The worse went thru my mind but I pulled up and went back to winching as he walked up to the tractor. He started telling me about some trees the power company had cut across the road that was on his property, I told him I knew about them and was told I couldnt get them. On no he says. I want you to get them. They will just lay there until they rot and I was the only person he knew that could get them out. I guess he was referring to the winch. Of course, I will be glad to get the trees. I drove up his driveway yesterday to talk to him about the trees, just to make sure we where on the same page about me taking the wood, and on the side of his drive, just out of sight from the road, is a huge white oak that was cut down and left. I estimate probably 2 full cords of wood and I can drive right up to it. He wasnt home when I went to visit, but I am hopeing he wants that tree gone too. I also am willing to bet I break my winch rope again dragging that tree home.
This is the cool kids thread.
cars,guns,whiskey,maple syrup and some times firewood and chainsaws.
Mini GTG here on the hill around the 2nd or 3rd saturday of Novembrrrrrr.
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