Hello all,
Just thought that I would share a couple of pictures from a tree that I fell yesterday. This is the first time that I have taken a camera with me while cutting, so bear with the photography. I don't personally burn firewood (natural gas), but we do in our shop at the farm. I can cut enough in a day or two to heat the shop for the year, so then I cut for friends, family, etc. A vast majority of the wood that I take is fence row ash, elm, cherry that is dead or leaning into the fields. The rough stats on this tree are 51" at the widest part of the back cut and then about 42" dbh. I paced the tree off at 30 paces or my guess 95 feet. It had some nasty rot and also had EAB damage. Everything went as planned for what it is worth. It is always a little touchy with these trees (rotten, fence row, lean) and usually keeps me on my toes.
I used an open face notch about 70 degrees with not much depth. I tried to keep as much hinge wood as I could with out all He77 breaking loose. I cut the smaller side of the back cut first and placed a wedge. I would have liked to leave more hinge wood here but I just plain and simply ran out of tree. I wanted my first wedge and then only wedge to be in semi-solid wood. Then I proceeded to the larger side with intentions of a second wedge. By the time I had enough room to set a wedge the trunk spilt vertically(which sent me exiting @ a 45)
uttahere: which is visible in one pictures of the tree. I returned to finish the backcut for a couple more inches to try and even my hinge wood. I cut a few more inches and decided to exit the scene with saw in tow. By the time I was at a safe distant the tree was beginning its decent. My plan was to give it a few taps with my felling axe, but this way worked better. Probably not the prettiest stump but there is only so much polish you can put on a turd. Hope you guys enjoy. Almost forgot I buck the wood into 16-20 foot lengths and haul it out with our Komatsu WA 120 and spilt all of my wood by hand with a Stihl maul. We do have a spilter and plenty of tractors, but I like the manual way better. Now hopefully I can figure out the picture posting.
Carlyle
ps. That is a neighbor that stopped out to see me in the tennis shoes, so please no flames :angry2:
Just thought that I would share a couple of pictures from a tree that I fell yesterday. This is the first time that I have taken a camera with me while cutting, so bear with the photography. I don't personally burn firewood (natural gas), but we do in our shop at the farm. I can cut enough in a day or two to heat the shop for the year, so then I cut for friends, family, etc. A vast majority of the wood that I take is fence row ash, elm, cherry that is dead or leaning into the fields. The rough stats on this tree are 51" at the widest part of the back cut and then about 42" dbh. I paced the tree off at 30 paces or my guess 95 feet. It had some nasty rot and also had EAB damage. Everything went as planned for what it is worth. It is always a little touchy with these trees (rotten, fence row, lean) and usually keeps me on my toes.
I used an open face notch about 70 degrees with not much depth. I tried to keep as much hinge wood as I could with out all He77 breaking loose. I cut the smaller side of the back cut first and placed a wedge. I would have liked to leave more hinge wood here but I just plain and simply ran out of tree. I wanted my first wedge and then only wedge to be in semi-solid wood. Then I proceeded to the larger side with intentions of a second wedge. By the time I had enough room to set a wedge the trunk spilt vertically(which sent me exiting @ a 45)
uttahere: which is visible in one pictures of the tree. I returned to finish the backcut for a couple more inches to try and even my hinge wood. I cut a few more inches and decided to exit the scene with saw in tow. By the time I was at a safe distant the tree was beginning its decent. My plan was to give it a few taps with my felling axe, but this way worked better. Probably not the prettiest stump but there is only so much polish you can put on a turd. Hope you guys enjoy. Almost forgot I buck the wood into 16-20 foot lengths and haul it out with our Komatsu WA 120 and spilt all of my wood by hand with a Stihl maul. We do have a spilter and plenty of tractors, but I like the manual way better. Now hopefully I can figure out the picture posting.Carlyle
ps. That is a neighbor that stopped out to see me in the tennis shoes, so please no flames :angry2:
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