Can you trade with the Amish? If they take it for their mill, you get X number of cutoff loads? Bucking that thing up off the ground is intimidating, especially the first one, but isn’t hard even with a smaller saw. It’s hard to explain though. If you want I can send you a PM with a step by step or my number and I can talk you through it. We run into stuff laid out like that pretty regular on our ground. Owl
Might want to wait until the ground is finally frozen. Or is it already frozen up by you? Buck and split on site. Haul the splits back in a small yard cart/ dump trailer that fits behind the ATV.
No frost now, there was earlier... I've got a couple heavier duty trailers for the wheeler that work good when the grounds not soft.
A block n tackle set up to a nearby large tree would allow an ATV to pull that tree to one side or the other...
I’d put on an extra layer of stubborn and get it out. This was the maiden voyage of my reworked log arch I had bought used. Wasnt worth much in its original configuration. Anyway this was the biggest branch I’ve ever seen. Or technically half the tree split off at the crotch. At the bottom of a hill we never took firewood from with the JD farm tractor. Figured I’d test it to the max. Truth be told I didn’t make it up the hill with all that weight. Kept cutting pieces off and trying again. Frozen roots on the hillside offer zero traction. It all made it home eventually.
That’s a premium long straight knot free oak log. The perfect size imo and it will be easy to split. Lots of straight edge splits that will make a nice stack. It may take a week, month, or year to figure out a way to disassemble, but I’d get it. Good luck! Anxiously awaiting the cut up pictures
Jo191145, that log is huge for an arch and atv!! Just think of how much your load weight was in comparison to your "tractor" weight. Sent from my SM-S536DL using Tapatalk
Not much else to do today with the “winter” we’re having so far.. And I didn't want my FHC man card taken away..
Awesome!! Keep cutting toward the top. You might be able to get it light enough to hook a chain and pull it across with the 4 wheeler
That reminds me of a joke I heard the other day… What do you call an Amish guy with his arm in a horse’s rear end? A mechanic.
