Phase 2 logging

Hopefully you get the chance to meet he & Miss Carol in person one day. Great folks!
T.Jeff Veal, nice work on the rigging and dropping of that leaner brother! Always a little pucker factor on those. I too have used that prayer more than a few times lol.

 

Thanks, my friend. I'm just a humble servant.

 

Y'all some great folks up there. Sure enjoyed seeing y'all again..
Trying to be extra careful.
There is quite a few in the backyard area I could use you, Barcroftb Scotty Overkill Haftacut skillz on...
Told the homeowner we will use man lift or climbing deer stand to get that cable up high...lol...

 

Throw bag & line plus a heavy sling shot or air cannon is way cheaper.

 

We used a throw bag and jet line on the first 2 trees. I have a bigger rope to pull cable up.
Need to find a good slingshot. Thanks for the idea......

 

T.Jeff Veal you want a bigshot or APTA for pull line installation. I can easily and accurately hit about 75 feet. Higher with a little more effort.

 

Climbing stand is actually a great idea jeff!

 

I used one years ago on a job we did

 

I was on my 7 days off, so we made some nice progress.
Friday morning, we finished cutting up the tops of a couple trees. Got 1 load by late lunch
Our goal for that afternoon was rigging and dropping the big red oak at the corner of the pool. It was tall with limb weight and lean towards the corner of the house. It was too big at the base for the climbing stand, so a 10' step ladder got it high enough to attach. I was able to climb and trim some limbs, attaching the cable about 30' up. Found out I haven't used a climbing stand in years, little pucker factor a few times, wasn't used to his stand.
Lot of wedge pounding, tension on the cable, we dropped it 90° to the lean.
Sorry for the long video...

After it was on the ground safely, Brad, the homeowner, told me to take a break, he would do the limbing
The 9' butt cut headed for the trailer
Got the 2nd load of the day ready for home.
Saturday, our son and his FIL came with us, got another load of skinnies and then we dropped 2 sweet gums...

 

Started off the week Monday morning, with very dry conditions. Bucked and moved the gum logs from Saturday
Then we started dropping more oaks

Miz Carol taking a break among the victims
We got 1 load that morning
The neighbor with the mill came up and wanted the rest of the pine logs, we moved those for him Monday afternoon.
Tuesday morning, we bucked and loaded what was down from Monday.
Then we started on the back left corner.
Dropped 9 trees here...Brad is putting a pole barn here
These trees are tall. This stem was 62.5' to where it broke off.
2nd load of the day. Had a big oak do a partial split on me.

 

That looks like a huge oak trunk did you measure it?

 

Wednesday, we cleared what oak we had down. Made another load
The resident doe and her fawns stopped by to check us out. We see them regularly.
That afternoon took down a couple gums...

Thursday started good, then hung a big root with the grapple while the tractor was rolling. Heard a loud pop and fluid sprayed. Blew 1 of the metal lines
Of course, didn't have any wrenches with us. Trip home, got wrenches, took line off, it's 1 long piece. Took it to our NAPA store. Guy was able to fix it...
New line is about $30-40, but shipping is $100......
Must have gotten our quota for the week. Log yard is full again
Brought tractor home Friday morning, moved enough to finish this pile. About 7.5-8 cords here
We are in the area behind the pool now.

 

About 30-31" at the stump, probably 25-26" DBH, lot of butt swell

 

Miz Carol had to model the MS461 with the 32" bar

 

We were back at the site July 6th. It was a sweet........gum........ day.
Carried a small load over to a friend to use for erosion control. He also wanted the hollow log, we noodled it in half, he wants to make something with it
Then we loaded the saw logs we had already cut
Proud of the F150 and trailer. Heaviest load we have pulled, I think....
The mill said they would take more, so we cut 3 more big gums down.

Gave it a nudge to make sure it went in the right direction, pool is behind the tractor
Those 3 trees made the 2nd load
Another heavy load
Haven't been back since then, was on quarantine and then work week.
Did start another stack of oak logs...
Making room to dump loads next week. Hope to be back on-site Monday morning.

 

I say about the same thing when the cut isn't quite right, the wind is off, or there are a lot of dead branches overhead, or when things are starting to go wrong and I have to scramble and hear His still quiet to get it not to be a disaster....

Sca

 

Wowzers thats a lot of doing, and a lot of wood!
Nice!
Sca

 

Got all the logs but 2 big, short butt cuts off the ground and stacked. Dumping area is ready for more now.

 

Looks great T.Jeff Veal , how is this year compared to other years firewood wise?

 

This is our biggest year so far, harvesting wise.
We do have several orders in already. 1 cord has been picked up, so far.