I may complain but I do give everyone a fair shake and tend to be a live and let live type of person. I don't wish ill will on any of my neighbors. Now if someone starts disrespecting me and my family for the way we live then things change. I'm from WI so we're experts at hiding our true feelings. WI nice
, ya know? Passive aggressiveness is our specialty!
The first time I shot a Ruger .44 carbine in the early 70s it was used to cut down a pine tree... Kids with a dad's gun.
My neighbors aren't interesting... we have no common interests. One day I cut up some trees for a woman who recently moved into a house with a neglected yard. The new woman and the chainsaw attracted a group of guys from the neighborhood. As I was walking back to my house with my saw I got to thinking that the guys that were still there should form their own AA chapter... Not my thing.
And more on the way…crazy
Next Door is made up of perhaps the largest batch of complete morons ever assembled, lolI love reading all the covidiots complain on the local Nextdoor App. Kids on dirtbikes, snow, outdoor burning, wood stoves, the price of heating propane, it's never ending lol. I've personally been the subject of a few posts. Mostly large fires that I made out near the road. Also my triple-port 066 got honorable mention one time and not from someone immediately adjacent to me either...the complainer was some distance away. To borrow a term from their vocabulary, loud chainsaws are the song of my people.
6” DOM, 3/4” wall, concrete filled?
The city folk think we shouldn't be allowed to defend ourselves from the criminals and thugs that are running rampant in all the big cities. Call the police and the nice criminal will wait 20 minutes for them to show up and protect us.
Not too long ago some thugs from MKE drove up the interstate, picked a random exit and then picked a house that was sitting alone in a woods. They broke in, tied up the family and robbed them. Thank God no one was hurt physically. If that happens here somebody's gonna be pushing daisies.
Never a more important time to practice situational awareness.
It's not just covidiots and citidiots on Nextdoor... A local firewood guy has a processor with a carbide toothed circular blade to cut the rounds to length. He's on the local Nextdoor claiming that firewood cut with a chainsaw presents a cancer risk due to the bar and chain oil so you should buy from him. I looked up a bunch of Safety Data Sheets for various brands of B&C oil and not a one has CA Prop 65 warnings or warnings for myriad other health risks... Amusingly the video he posted shows logs on the feed deck that were obviously felled with chainsaws...I love reading all the covidiots complain on the local Nextdoor App. Kids on dirtbikes, snow, outdoor burning, wood stoves, the price of heating propane, it's never ending lol. I've personally been the subject of a few posts. Mostly large fires that I made out near the road. Also my triple-port 066 got honorable mention one time and not from someone immediately adjacent to me either...the complainer was some distance away. To borrow a term from their vocabulary, loud chainsaws are the song of my people.
Now you just need a removeable ramp that you can roll the big boys up without dead-lifting?
I was thinking about it...possibly a hydraulic lift. For the time being, I "enjoy" the workout of lifting rounds onto the beam. If the round is too big to lift, I noodle it with a saw.
It's not just covidiots and citidiots on Nextdoor... A local firewood guy has a processor with a carbide toothed circular blade to cut the rounds to length. He's on the local Nextdoor claiming that firewood cut with a chainsaw presents a cancer risk due to the bar and chain oil so you should buy from him. I looked up a bunch of Safety Data Sheets for various brands of B&C oil and not a one has CA Prop 65 warnings or warnings for myriad other health risks... Amusingly the video he posted shows logs on the feed deck that were obviously felled with chainsaws...
I think the Timber Wolf brand has the hydraulic lifts. That would be easier than noodling.
Sorry, but I just gotta ask. Why the bad a** pieces of equipment like a skidsteer to log it and a quad to tow it, but a an electric shaver to cut it and shopping cart to haul it?
Well said! All of it, and thankyou for the compliment.Nice work. What some people don't understand, is cutting down the tree is usually the easy/non-labor intensive part. It's cleaning up all the brush and removing it where the costs comes from.
Even when it comes to trees that you have to climb, the climbing is still the easy part for me. Sure, climbing ain't easy on the body, but a climber can easily bury his groundie with more stuff than they can handle. The guys I work well with, will usually rush in and pull out the limbs while I'm moving up to my next work position. On the broad trees like the east coast guys have, the roles do reverse. I'm not especially a gifted climber, so the ground guys have lots of downtime while I reposition.
I don't like those short, but broad conifers. I luck out where I'm at, as most of our trees are taller, but with shorter limbs. The short limbs are easier to manipulate as a climber, easier for the ground guys to process, and you don't have to worry as much about them taking bad bounces and hitting things you didn't want to hit.
The worst were some crappy "valley" redwoods I was climbing awhile back. They were some toads, short for redwoods, but fat...the lower branches were so long that the tips would hit the ground before the butts were severed off the tree. I was surrounded by buildings, so I lots of rigging and/or getting creative with my cuts.
I would guess because the urban tree has no competition for sunlight and is pretty much by itself in the open. That seems like a logical reason why it's in no hurry to reach a canopy. I feel that explains shortness and big limbs. However, I'm no botanists or forester. Just a woodsman. Might even be becoming an urban woodsman now! 
