Green briar...roots look like a sweet potato...Google Image Result for https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7008/6645104923_4717ba4821.jpg
The temps have been upper 80's - low 90's with high humidity and dew points...feels like 100+ some days.
Except for 4 straight pieces we put on the trailer, it all went on their burn pile. We have used the XS400 some here and carried it to PA GTG. Probably have 5-6 tanks thru it now. I like it, lighter weight, fast cutter. Not as torquey as the 461 or 4910. I'm still learning the auto- tune...
The coworker that gave us all those oaks after Hurricane Helene, said he had more trees he wanted taken down. He's going to tear down the barn that got hit and build a longer barn. Our greeting party when we turned in the driveway at his place... The groups of trees...7 here... and 2 here... Echo XS4910 dropped the smaller trees. Hickory going down Also used the XS4910 to drop the smaller white oak The Stihl XS400, 25" bar got to play too. Dropped the bigger white oak And bucking and limbing some too. Next tree was a big, ugly red oak leaner, with a tight drop zone. Used the Stihl MS461 to drop it. Center rot had me nervous...notch, bore cut and send it... 32"bar on stump walt and Robin showed us a good midday snack...snack sticks, cheese and water Had 2 ugly water oaks to drop, make good firepit wood...yes, it's very dry down here. Hickory, white and red oak on 1st load Area is cleaned up... 2nd load, red and white oak...
Hmmm...that kinda looks like "imported" cheese Looks like y'all got a lot done there...was that all in one day?!
Hey Jeff...Did you take delivery of the new stump grinder on Wednesday? Just hoping for dome pictures of it in action!
Well, we got it in Amish country when we were traveling with Walt and Robin. I noticed yesterday it was "imported" from Wisconsin... Yes sir, that was a one day job. We got there about 9:30ish, done by 5PM.
We went over to a friend's place yesterday, he had 3 trees he wanted dropped. 2 pines and a sweet gum. Warming up the XS400, we also used the XS4910 to limb. The sweet gum, it had 2 stems, and the pine with the axe leaning on it. The middle pine in the picture... We dropped and cleaned up the gum first, then used wedges and Kubota to nudge this pine back to his side of the property... We used natural lean and guided this one down in an opening... They were decently tall pines, got 60 ' of 12' saw logs off the 1st tree and originally had 64' of 16' logs on the 2nd tree. He decided the top cut was too knotty and a bit small on top, so it went back to burn pile. 16' butt log in the Catawba grapple, heading to his mill... We brought 72' of gum home, it will be split and added to firepit wood totes... He had a couple other little things he wanted done with the tractor while we were there...restacked his burn pile, loaded a pile of bark mulch on his trailer and raked a couple old burn piles down. It was a good day...
We went back a week later to the same place where we took down the 3 trees. We had to get to the root of the problem...... He is going to build a shed in this area, so we put the Woodland Mills 24Pro stump grinder to work. Cut the sweet gum and 1 pine stump off before the chain got dull We also ground a smaller oak stump too. Next up was the fresh sweet gum, it did great on it... Then the bigger pine that was cut off... Didn't feel like swapping chains on the saw, so tried the last pine stump straight up... It will grind 6" below grade... All smoothed out...
