Yes sir. Needed to have been cut not long after it was hit. The sapwood was bad punky and full of grubs. Woodpeckers had worked over the top of that stub
Another little job we did Wednesday morning... Another neighbor had an elm tree leaning towards their house, he had an arborist drop it for him. They live a mile or less from us and didn't have any equipment to move it. We found out about it, checked it out. I've never seen bittersweet vine, but this place has the biggest wisteria vines I've ever seen. That's a vine stump with a sweet gum tree on top... And this is a big water oak with a couple big vines in it. Looks like the strangler fig we saw in Belize one year... It took a little bit with the grapple, but we cleaned out the privet hedge and vines, made getting to the wood better Got a nice trailer load, dumped it where the sun can bake it this summer...
Helped another neighbor yesterday morning with a bushy water oak. Not much room to work with, house on left, goat fence on the right. Side lean towards the house... Notch towards small pecan tree on left side of driveway. Wedge on back corner A nudge from the 'Bota Got it safely on the ground...a bit more right than I wanted But no damage to the fence and it didn't hit house or golf cart. The goats liked the treat of oak leaves. Used grapple to hold limbs that were over the fence as I cut them off... I don't really like water oaks, they have very small twigs on the branches, makes pulling limbs difficult All cut up and loaded. He will move brush to the burn pile... A decent little load...glad we have a splitter, very knotty.
What do you do with all your idle time Jeff? Are your days somehow 48 hours long? Great job as always.
Kinda looks like Pin Oak from around here miserable knotty stuff has a distinct odor to it also Nice Job !!!
Good job getting it on the ground. Do you use the smaller splitter for knotty logs or just a single wedge on blue samson?
Nice work T.Jeff, as usual. Missed this original post, My first saw I was given a Crapsman. Anti-vibe is/was total crap on it. I still have it in a case like that and it hasn't been opened in about 10-12 years. The gesture was very nice though. It's nice to have spare saws just in cast you get on or 4 stuck, lol.
Here lately, with our knees, more like a squeaky gate... Cut up the limb wood from the tree above and the lightning struck tree from the plantation job, plus a few smaller logs from same tree. Took me about all day to get this tote done.
The neighbor we helped in this thread with the pines...A day off, another tree job called us again the other day, they had gotten the single wide moved in, when the EMC came to look at installing the power line, a nice bushy willow oak was in the way of a straight shot to the house. Could we take it down... Of course, it had limb weight and side lean towards the house... Made a good face cut, got a couple wedges in place Cut my back cut a bit deeper, tree sat down hard on them...time for some Kubota power... There she goes... We got 3 trunk sections... We did some limbing The neighbor did a good bit more, he's got a nice pile of limb wood to cut up Ready for the service line now F150 had a little squat to it... May take Blue Samson up there later and split the knotty pieces for them.
A neighbor/cousin across the creek from us had a 4 dead pines he needed dropped. After the rain moved out Saturday morning, we got together with another friend that operates a boom truck... 1st pine had no clear landing zone, so we pieced it down Boom fully extended, about 60' or so... Used the Echo XS2511T to limb and top this pine There goes the top... Had to swap over to the Echo XS4910 next cut... XS4910 spitting out the chips Last cut... The other 3 trees were able to be dropped with just a saw and wedge... 3rd tree Last tree, this one is straight and big enough to mill...slight lean towards his house On the way to the ground safely
It sure is nice having good neighbors. Our gifted us with a large water oak he had taken down this year.
