promac850
formerly promac610
Well, I woke up to find a note on the door from pops. Turned out one of our trees broke in half during a pretty wicked storm last night. So I had some work to do.
As for pics of the fallen tree half before it got cut up, long story short, there was a technical difficulty that did not allow the camera to take pics. However, here are a few pics that show the remains after cutting the limbs off. I used the 250 for this job. Yes, I limbed out the tree with the 250. My arms felt a little tired at first, but quickly got used to it.
Still a little more clean up to do yet, but only about 15% of the metric crap ton of wood that was on the ground.
The story behind this tree is that 20 some years ago, it got hit by lightning right down the middle and both halves were almost on the ground. My neighbor and the previous resident of this house bolted the tree back together, and it healed and lived for quite some time. Obviously some of the tree rotted out and literally became soil for the branches to root into.
It held up, until last night... it looks like a strong wind from the north finished off this tree which is dry, but alive, for good. The other half still stands, we're going to take it out soon, though. It's a danger to the power lines a little north of it and possibly little white shed you see in the background.
So far, three heaping loads of small branches with leaves (mostly 1" or less) to the big burn pile (that's gonna be a hell of a bonfire when we light it up this winter... there are more seasoned branches from the trees my neighbor took out of his yard last year) and one truck load of bigger branches, and a few pretty good sized rounds. The Ranger did the hauling work. Each of those heaping branch hauls were piled up about 2 feet over the top of the cab, some branches hanging over the bed sides as well.
Ah, the fun I had with that old saw...
As for pics of the fallen tree half before it got cut up, long story short, there was a technical difficulty that did not allow the camera to take pics. However, here are a few pics that show the remains after cutting the limbs off. I used the 250 for this job. Yes, I limbed out the tree with the 250. My arms felt a little tired at first, but quickly got used to it.
Still a little more clean up to do yet, but only about 15% of the metric crap ton of wood that was on the ground.
The story behind this tree is that 20 some years ago, it got hit by lightning right down the middle and both halves were almost on the ground. My neighbor and the previous resident of this house bolted the tree back together, and it healed and lived for quite some time. Obviously some of the tree rotted out and literally became soil for the branches to root into.
It held up, until last night... it looks like a strong wind from the north finished off this tree which is dry, but alive, for good. The other half still stands, we're going to take it out soon, though. It's a danger to the power lines a little north of it and possibly little white shed you see in the background.
So far, three heaping loads of small branches with leaves (mostly 1" or less) to the big burn pile (that's gonna be a hell of a bonfire when we light it up this winter... there are more seasoned branches from the trees my neighbor took out of his yard last year) and one truck load of bigger branches, and a few pretty good sized rounds. The Ranger did the hauling work. Each of those heaping branch hauls were piled up about 2 feet over the top of the cab, some branches hanging over the bed sides as well.
Ah, the fun I had with that old saw...
