Simple case of running a rope off of the back of my ute and swinging heavy leaners around on the rope. If I was doing this to heavier trees I'd have used chains and not rope. This is a handy little trick to get trees going where they don't want to go.
A wind also came up which really didn't help much and it caught me out on a couple of trees where I got the 7900 stuck and had to cut it out with the little 353 - the trees were too small to get a wedge in behind the bar and I couldn't be stuffed doing any fancy boring cuts etc. The more hingewood left on eucalypts the better (and safer). I decided to run a loop of new Carlton full chisel on the little 353. Up until today I've been running Carlton semi chisel. I have to say that out of the box I'm not a big fan of Carlton LM full chisel. It seems to need a bit of work to get it cutting properly unlike Stihl RSC or Oregon LGX. I was running RSC on the 7900 with an 8 pin rim and a well used yet still like new GB Pro Top in 20" 72DL 3/8" .050".
The little Husky had a GB Powertech (solid but fixed sprocket) in 18" .325" 72DL .050" with an 8 pin rim. Great little saw this thing and one of the reasons I'd like to get my mitts on a 346XP one day.
Ended up dropping 60 trees in about 90 minutes. Most of them basically felled themselves with a few quick cuts...
Oh and I found the stench in my shed finally after laying some baits that got absolutely mauled. I'm gonna call this guy "Roborat" as he knocked down quite a bit of strychnine wheat I laid out. Normally if mice or rats eat strychnine baits they get about 18" away at best. He was on the other side of the shed and had come back twice for a feed...
Sad part is I only found him by tracking the blowflies
I have a video too (nothing special) but will get it up ASAP.
Oh and I thought I'd put up some Google Earth images to show you guys the area of these properties. I've been working in the red areas and today was where the red arrow is. The Casuarina windbreaks stand out as darker, thicker lines of trees...
The last property was here where the larger Casuarinas were...
The first properties were here. I have also outlined other windbreaks that I have felled for them. The only North/South or South/West windbreak that wasn't felled is higlighted in green. There was about 8,000 trees felled in this image alone...