The past 7 days were hectic.... Kinda like most of the year had been, but we did some monsters the past week. Started out last Wednesday with two MASSIVE red oaks, around 80' tall trees with huge canopies and almost 4' diameter trunks. Had to piece some of them out, the job went without a hitch, but the homeowner wanted all of the wood. I estimated around 3-4 full cord maybe more in those two trees. Then it was off to another location Monday evening where we had 4 oaks to remove, one of them being a massive tree as well. Got two of them down so far, homeowner is cleaning up those as we speak and we'll be back out there tomorrow to remove the largest of the 4. I'll be getting a nice piece of that wood, close to 3 cord. Tuesday evening we had three 70' poplars, we had to climb and piece them down as well. ..... Good times, ah yes good times! The big trees we did on Wednesday and Thursday, blacksmith got a taste of some really big wood that evening!
The two oaks we did on Monday evening, got the tops out of two of them. Some pics I took from the tree, I rarely take my phone up because bad things happen to phones when your in trees..... What a view, though!!
No way I could do what you do sir. Just looking at the pic's from the tree view made blood rush to my feet. I'm a big scaredy cat when it comes to heights.
Love the view from up top! It also makes me pine for deer season! I planned on hanging some tree stands this week but it hasn't happened yet. Don't like to do it when the trees are wet and we've been wet. I also tend to get aching legs just looking at the climbers. As you know, it has been many, many moons since I used those but it has not yet been long enough! In that 4th picture, was that just being off a bit or was a saw in need of sharpening? As usual and as expected, you do good work....and plenty of it too.
Are you talking about the big oak stump in the 1st post? That cut looks weird because I did the bore cut on that one. It's a three stage cut. And it was a tad off but not too bad for a 40+" trunk....
not just me..... blacksmith is in some of those pics too. He's come a long way in climbing and topping trees.....
