TMFARM 2009
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so i have 15 standing dead ash. some are in bad places, im not willing to drop them due to height and surroundings. (100' + trees)
anywho, last week i started felling on an easy tree, bingo it dropped right where i wanted it.
started second tree, notched it seemed ok, noticed a little rot dead center approx 3" wide.
so i spin around and started back cut and (crack !pop! pop pop) im like only an inch into the back cut and all heck broke loose. top exploded widow makers rain down so i ran, about ten feet away i stopped and turned around just in time to see the tree had set back going the opposite direction just then a branch hits the ground and swings around and busts my mouth open (loosening my front teeth) and takes my left glove clean off my left hand.
the center top dropped right on my cs 450p dead on the bar!
needless to say i was ticked, but also very happy that i survived with little injuries.
now for some pics.
pic is after i sliced it with my 370. didn't think of taking pic before.
the only damage to the saw.
so tonight i decided to take my fiskars and chunk up some of the stump. i built a fire in the pit.
a little revenge on the tree. see the pic in the firepit thread.
the cs590 made quick work of the entire 110' long trunk.
pics of that will come tomorrow.
sadly the trunk was solid just 20" higher than where i had cut.
begs the question: if i had cut it higher, would it not busted off the stump? or do you think it would have resulted the same?
im rather wigged out about cutting the others. i've heard of others having widow-makers fall trying to fell standing deads recently.
i haven't ran into this before all the years i have cut and logged and cleared fence-rows. i haven't had tops break out and fall before the tree started to go.
anywho, last week i started felling on an easy tree, bingo it dropped right where i wanted it.
started second tree, notched it seemed ok, noticed a little rot dead center approx 3" wide.
so i spin around and started back cut and (crack !pop! pop pop) im like only an inch into the back cut and all heck broke loose. top exploded widow makers rain down so i ran, about ten feet away i stopped and turned around just in time to see the tree had set back going the opposite direction just then a branch hits the ground and swings around and busts my mouth open (loosening my front teeth) and takes my left glove clean off my left hand.
the center top dropped right on my cs 450p dead on the bar!
needless to say i was ticked, but also very happy that i survived with little injuries.
now for some pics.
pic is after i sliced it with my 370. didn't think of taking pic before.
the only damage to the saw.
so tonight i decided to take my fiskars and chunk up some of the stump. i built a fire in the pit.
a little revenge on the tree. see the pic in the firepit thread.
the cs590 made quick work of the entire 110' long trunk.
pics of that will come tomorrow.
sadly the trunk was solid just 20" higher than where i had cut.
begs the question: if i had cut it higher, would it not busted off the stump? or do you think it would have resulted the same?
im rather wigged out about cutting the others. i've heard of others having widow-makers fall trying to fell standing deads recently.
i haven't ran into this before all the years i have cut and logged and cleared fence-rows. i haven't had tops break out and fall before the tree started to go.