Layed down a nice willow on Wed. Taped at 37" on the butt and 81' to the first useable size piece of firewood. It had been firekilled 5 years ago and finally dropped its bark this spring. That stuff came off in slabs 2 ft wide x 6' long - big enough to kill a guy. I was worried that the butt would be half rotten. I was worried about the wrong thing.
First problem was falling a stick that size with a 24" bar. My undercut showed solid wood by the chips so I went to it. Too bad the top, sloping cut didn't meet the bottom cut on the off side of the tree - once again I had allowed the bar to drop and had cut with a downward slope (going awayi from me) so when I switched sides the problem was obvious. Much whittling at it to get the 'wedge' out and clean out the dutchmen.
At least it did fall where I aimed, right alongside the fire pile which saved me a bunch of work.
Inspection showed that while the butt was solid, only a couple feet up was a burned out hollow. That hollow burn ruined the bottom 22' of log. All there was was a shell. Had I been able to see that before falling I probably would have walked away.
Log is still out there waiting for both clean up and working up (what is good). Went out the next dayi to do that but on the way my F150 decided that out in the boonies was a good time to drop the link between the slave cylinder and the clutch. Great...I got to practice driving it home using clutchless shifting.
Harry K
First problem was falling a stick that size with a 24" bar. My undercut showed solid wood by the chips so I went to it. Too bad the top, sloping cut didn't meet the bottom cut on the off side of the tree - once again I had allowed the bar to drop and had cut with a downward slope (going awayi from me) so when I switched sides the problem was obvious. Much whittling at it to get the 'wedge' out and clean out the dutchmen.
At least it did fall where I aimed, right alongside the fire pile which saved me a bunch of work.
Inspection showed that while the butt was solid, only a couple feet up was a burned out hollow. That hollow burn ruined the bottom 22' of log. All there was was a shell. Had I been able to see that before falling I probably would have walked away.
Log is still out there waiting for both clean up and working up (what is good). Went out the next dayi to do that but on the way my F150 decided that out in the boonies was a good time to drop the link between the slave cylinder and the clutch. Great...I got to practice driving it home using clutchless shifting.
Harry K