I’ve cut poison ivy vines 4” here. My place was over run in places when I bought it. PI and wild grape is what we have here. I cut it every time I’m close to it. Glad you got them trees down safe.
Wasnt too bad OAKley Dokley Used the saw kinda like a machete. I backed the truck close to the edge of the woods which helped.
That's how I hit my chaps with the saw idling down from high speed in one hand, just after letting go with the other hand to move a cut branch. It's dangerous cutting in a mess, the kevlar from the chaps wrapped in the chain and stopped it. I've been doing this for 45 years, but that one day, I was glad I was wearing chaps. I always do now.
NH mountain man thanks for the safety reminder. I find myself not wearing chaps the majority of the time. Not smart.
A follow up you wouldn't think of, I now was standing in the crown of a tree I had just dropped, with a saw bound up with kevlar attached to my thigh. I couldn't put the saw down, I had to unbuckle my chaps and drop them, to lower the saw to the ground. I have a friend who is a professional logger who cut into his calf but good, limbing a tree top. So many tripping hazards there, far more dangerous than the actual felling unless you have a barber pole. Stay safe.
I kept a bunch of maple sapling sections that are vine-scarred. I just need to figure out what to do with them
That one would make a sweet shillelagh. Even a forged axe/fantasy piece would be cool. Good to see you to. I have just a little spare time before the next big project.
Oh, those are nice. Thanks for the link. They will be on the to do list someday. I have to go pick the vine cut offs this weekend and see what else is there.
I went and looked at the twisted sisters vase and this is what caught my eye. We have lots of sea urchins around here. Hanging Ornament- Green Sea Urchin & Walnut (OR67)
They have controlled a lot of the kudzu in many places. We have pockets of bamboo and wisteria...I hate that stuff...
I'm just glad don't any of us have the strangler fig, that grows in tropical climates. This is a couple trees wrapped in the fig vine. The vine grows out on the limbs and then sends roots down around the tree, taking water and nutrition from the host. It will kill the tree in 30-40 yrs. That is the root network you see there. This was in Belize in '18...
Uncontrolled wisteria...pretty when it blooms and smells good, that is soon gone though. Tree at plant where I work.