This majestic giant died sometime in the last year or so. Today I took it down. That's an MS661 w/ 36" bar and it was still a couple inches short of the full diameter at the base. The main trunk was completely solid and gun barrel straight. I got 2 x 12.5 foot long logs perfectly clear on all four sides, one 8 ft log with 2 knots on one side and a dandy 8' log with the crotch. Not much firewood in this one. The crown branches were dead and exploded/vaporized when they hit the ground. Great day in the woods, today.
right down the middle! Nice Job! looks like you cut the hinge and bore cut right behind it. Do I read that right? Fell cut looks to be bias cut into the bore back cut. Is that right? I can see why the bias cut would be, make sure you intercept the back cut. I’ve never seen that or noticed it before. It answers questions I’ve had. and leaving the hinge fat on the right pulled it right right down the middle
Yes, that's exactly correct, except I didn't leave the hinge fat on the right on purpose. I was shooting for an even hinge. I also had to clear out several smaller trees to create an open landing zone before I took on the big one.
I saw the clear cuts. Good idea. Also taking note that the left side is a s#it load more cut to get to a place where the fell cut is short and sweet, even if it’s 30 degrees from the hinge. learning a lot from that first pic.
I really liking it. Lot's of torque. Not as heavy as I thought it would feel, but def wouldn't want to lug it around all day.
Heck no. I'm lucky that all my trees are within 1500' or so of my house at max. I can bring as many different saws as I want for any given jog. FWIW, on this one I really didn't need to "limb" it. There were no branches on the main trunk, 45' up to the crotch, so I just bucked out the saw logs. The crown was pretty dead and basically blew up pretty completely when it hit the ground. Of course, if anyone wants to come over and scrounge some primo oak crowns for firewood, then yes, a smaller saw would be in order.
Thanks, I really maxed out the tractor skidding those logs up hill over crummy ground. That butt log is probably 1.5-2 tons.
Logs stacked up off the ground and end sealed. There's actually one more 8' x 20" log on a different pile too.
