Fallen oak on a steep grade

[joe25DA]

Yesterdaymy wife was working at home, she calls and says I think a tree fell it shook the house. I said ok, probably just a branch. Nope it was a 60’ oak and it made a mess. To make matters worse we are listing the house and a photographer is coming Monday morning. Normally cutting up an 18” oak is a fun job, but along with all the trimming, weeding and house work we have to do the tree fell on a 60* slope and that’s no exaggeration. Hard to tell from the pictures. The tree took the sumac down, and yes it looks better with them, I cleared the whole bank when we moved in and it looked terrible. It just missed my irises, garden and a rhododendron. Started the cleanup today, had to go to a baseball game this afternoon so hopefully I can finish tomorrow. The real ***** of it is I can’t just roll the rounds down, I’d ruin the flowers so each one I’ll have to carry and carefully. I started with my Dolmar 540, chose it for good power with a sharp 16”x3/8” chain and it has a brake, on the hill I set the brake when I’m moving around which is hard enough without worrying about bumping the trigger.

 

[JRM]

Yikes! I hope you are able to clear it before pictures. Maybe they can come back for that side of the property once your all cleaned up.
No way of dragging long sections down, in a somewhat controlled manner?

 

[HansFranz]

18” oak on a 60* slope

Stay uphill of that mutha as much as you can when cutting on it!

 

[joe25DA]

Yikes! I hope you are able to clear it before pictures. Maybe they can come back for that side of the property once your

Yikes! I hope you are able to clear it before pictures. Maybe they can come back for that side of the property once your all cleaned up.
No way of dragging long sections down, in a somewhat controlled manner?

Stay uphill of that mutha as much as you can when cutting on it!

It’s all bucked up now. I have about half of what I cut down. What’s left will be tricky. The trunk was bigger than I thought, I ran out of fuel in the Dolmar, I had the bar buried with 10’ to go. I grabbed my freshly built 2171 jonsered with a new 20” total bar and 3/8” Stihl rsc chain. This saw has a new oem 372XP top end and K&N filter. Was a former rescue saw that was straight gassed early in its life. I converted back but kept the K&N and full wrap handle bar. I got rid of the snowblower pull handle. This saw is super fast.

 

[a. palmer jr.]

Looks like quite the mess. I fully expect that here sooner or later, I have a few trees in my yard that have hollow places in the trunk. They were trimmed a few years ago so the tops aren't quite grown back. They are too close to the house to suit me though..

 

[joe25DA]

Today I loaded up the pile onto my truck. I still don’t have a fireplace/stove so my cousin will take it. Seemed like more when I rolled them down the hill. Also fired up my SXL HOMELITE, made a few cuts saws runs very well. And if your loading onto a 1ton squarebody, you have to have the saw that was used in tandem with thousands of those trucks in the 70s - 80s. Takes a lot more weight than this to move those springs

 

[link]

The limbing you would be way better off with something like this;
Plenty capacity to cut all those miles of 4" branches.

 

[link]

ASo this is Birch, if Oak is 600 hard and Spruce is 400 hard, this is 500;
Remember; 4" branches... this is 14".

 

[joe25DA]

I used my Dolmar 540 to limb. I chose that saw because I needed to limb and buck. That saw has the nimbleness and grunt to do both. I ran 4 saws on that tree, 540, 2171, SXLAO, and my 661 (not pictured yet).

 

[JRM]

The limbing you would be way better off with something like this;
Plenty capacity to cut all those miles of 4" branches.

I could think of some much more efficient ways to limb a tree than a top handle saw...or for that matter that noise maker in the video. I mean no offense, if it works for you then thats great. But neither is the most efficient use of time or energy.

 

[joe25DA]

I have 2 of the best top handles ever, Poulan S25 and a 201T, I have a top handle echo too that’s a solid saw. Most of the limbs broke and it didn’t have a lot to begin with. The south side (the way it fell) had the limbs. The north side faced dense woods, few limbs that got sun. I was mostly cutting 12”-20” trunk. I could have gotten the bigger saw sooner, but I just wanted to get off that hill as quick as possible. Pushed the Dolmar till it was empty and finished with the 2171.

 

[KMSwr]

Today I loaded up the pile onto my truck. I still don’t have a fireplace/stove so my cousin will take it. Seemed like more when I rolled them down the hill. Also fired up my SXL HOMELITE, made a few cuts saws runs very well. And if your loading onto a 1ton squarebody, you have to have the saw that was used in tandem with thousands of those trucks in the 70s - 80s. Takes a lot more weight than this to move those springsView attachment 1003448View attachment 1003449View attachment 1003450View attachment 1003451

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Today I loaded up the pile onto my truck. I still don’t have a fireplace/stove so my cousin will take it. Seemed like more when I rolled them down the hill. Also fired up my SXL HOMELITE, made a few cuts saws runs very well. And if your loading onto a 1ton squarebody, you have to have the saw that was used in tandem with thousands of those trucks in the 70s - 80s. Takes a lot more weight than this to move those springsView attachment 1003448View attachment 1003449View attachment 1003450View attachment 1003451