I had a good sized fence buster, along with a few smaller ones that I have been working on this summer. This one came down yesterday. Now all I need to do is hold the fence material away from the stump and make it much shorter. In the first picture you can see the fence post that once had the top of the chain link on it. The top of the stump. Yes I stood on something to get that angle. There was a crotch about 6 feet above the fence that complicated things a bit. I split it down the middle by noodling it while I was bucking the trunk.
You mean that tree pushed the fence that far left while it grew? Or did it start to lean that way? What kind of tree is that anyway?
Yes, it pushed it that far by pushing the top rail. It is a mulberry so some nice wood a couple of years out. Noticed just now that in the last picture you can also see the remnants of my notch and back cut. It is toward the right side of the picture.
Ya, I thought that was mulberry, but I'm in PA, and you being in Illinois, well, I just wasn't sure. One thing I do, not sure if you're interested, but if I cut a tree and don't want it to grow back, I take a paint brush and coat the stump with undiluted glyphosate right after cutting it, coat the whole flat cut area, especially getting around the outside edge where bark meets wood. Pretty much guarantee's it won't sprout a bunch of leaders at the base
Sort of like using a chainsaw as a scalpal. Pretty neat. I hope the fence can be pulled away enough that it won't kiss the chain for the bottom parts. I hate it when fences grow where nice trees like that are located. LOL. Good job!
I have some Tordon to do that, but first I want to get that thing a lot shorter so I can try to bring the fence back to where it belongs. I know exactly what you mean by sprouting. Some of the trees I knocked down this spring are completely hidden by the new sprouts.
I shortened several of my fence busters today. For chain link it worked to place a short 4 inch diameter round between the fence and the stump I was working on. That way I could cut through completely without too much drama. I only managed to get 2 of the 6 down to inches from the ground. The rest I had to stop at a foot or two remaining. Some of them actually had some of the chain link buried in the wood and I wasn't tempted to get very close to that horror story. Everything got a nice dose of Tordon so we shall see how that works. I treated each stump with the the Tordon while the saw was turned off before moving to shorten the next one. I don't think I could have done it much closer to the time it was actually cut. I did get the fence back on the fence post that I showed in the first picture but it is kind of an S shape if you sight along it because of pushes it gets in other parts of the fence from other fence busters.
