Had a lady call me last week with a big red oak hanging over her house...it was around 70-80' tall, with several large limbs fouling the house. We took on the job Sunday morning around 8:00am, were finished up by 2:30pm. Trunk had a slight lean towards the house, after taking the weight off of the leaning side we rigged it at around 50' and pulled it with the cable down across the yard. Went smooth and incident-free! Sent my cutting partner up the tree, he's getting better at climbing. Rigged and towered several branches, the others were left to free fall..... You can see the curvature to the large trunk, house is 20' to the right in this picture. Trunk was around 27" diameter at waist height... Ended up with two heaping trailer loads of good stuff!! Pic of my trusty 041AV Super, she's felled HUNDREDS of trees for me under my ownership. You can see my custom bucking spikes (we forged them from an antique Jeep leaf spring), and my own designed dual port muffler.... Started splitting my take of the wood yesterday, found some unique pieces and goofed around a little...
Nice job Scotty. Lots of good wood there, easy splitting too I love that saw, been around the block and still working hard So you just took the limbs off the lean-side, then pulled it over?
It's holding up pretty good, but I DID snap the tip off in July. Flattened it back out, put it on the bar and welded the rivets onto it.....I gotta get a new tip. It's lasted me a year under fairly heavy use (literally around 150-200 trees PLUS bucking), so I'd say it's done well.....lol
That saw is a legend in my book.....I love that thing... as for the limbs, there's more to it than that really. Properly rigging them is half of the issue (learning where the center of gravity/tipping point is takes practice), making the proper cuts removing them is a big part to. Some branches call for "snap cuts", others we use a reverse wedge cut, even a "3 o'clock" or "7 o'clock" wedge cut. All depends on the weight of the branch, type of overhead rigging/pulley, etc.......
Nice work with a nasty leaner. That oak reminds me of a couple we cut a couple years ago....and we did it with a 16" bar! Did just fine.
Oh yeah, I know it's complicated work that takes experience to master. I was just curious about the general process . Working as a guy on the ground, I always enjoy watching the climbers in the tree
Just got home and I'm dragging the splitter out of the barn as we speak. I'll post pics of the splits later. Gonna make a bunch of squared off splits from this stuff for cribbing the ends of my new wood cube that I'm getting ready to start building.......
Another job well done, premium btu's right there, will make some nice splits. I split a pile of walnut and elm tonight.
Well everything I kept from that job (the 16 biggest rounds from trunk and some of the limbs) is split and in the pile waiting to be stacked....I kept all the nice squared-off stuff in its own pile to be used as the end of my soon-to-be new cube.... got started right after work.... Got 30 splits out of each one of the big rounds.... Daughter was helping her dad.....we saved the stump for last....it's too long so I'll cut each one of those splits down to a smaller length. Now I gotta stack it all. A small job to do tomorrow and then another big job on Sunday......it just keeps coming!
Nice looking rounds. Is it against FHC policy to ask what the going price is for dropping such a tree? I had 4 smaller (max. 20" diameter rounds) red oak taken down this spring (see avatar) and cut to 16" rounds. I kept it all and paid $500ish. Have gotten about 3/4 of it s/s.....now I wait , as I've learned from this site just how long it takes to be ready to burn . Had I known, I woulda gone for the maples or even the popple . Glad we got a TSC nearby. Hello, biobricks
Nice job there Scotty! We have mostly red oak here and we love it. Beautiful tree, splits nice, high btu..... cant go wrong. Love the pics bro!
