Well, I felled a decent sized tree this morning, without any collateral damage - which is always good. I knew of 2 trees needing to be dropped, but once onsite, I noticed about half dozen that had bark peeling. All oak. I'll be making trips cross town(~3miles) to my sister-in-law's, when weather allows. Hoping to make several trips before the snow piles up. I"m also hoping to emply my friend and his F250. I did manage to get one load home in my van today, as the pics show. That pile will grow, until I"m ready to CSS. No pics of the stump with hinge. I butchered it, as indicated by the small wedges laying on the ground. I need to figure out how to pot pics, in a single posting, with comment/descriptions for each pic.
Very very nice. Big red oak always a nice score. And it sounds like you got a lot more to come! Congrats!
Yep - and here I am on the home front, all out of logs to work on during the Winter season. NO MORE!! Love cutting and splitting during the cold weather. Hauling it, not so much. But it's all a good reason to get outside and get a decent workout.
Ah looks like ya need to get an open top wood hauler (Silverado perhaps ) to take some of the work out of loading and unloading Good job using what you got and good looking bunch of oak.
Mike- when you click on "upload a file" and go thru the process of choosing them, each one pops up here-you can choose "Thumbnail" button next to your pic.... I show you: If I don't select either option next to the pic, the pic shows up in the post like you've got going on.... HTH
Mike I hope Eric's post helped on the pictures. Just place the cursor where you want the pictures then choose "Thumbnail" and all the pictures will post right where you had the cursor. Then if you wish to add some words describing each individual picture it is easy to do by placing he cursor at the rh edge of a picture and hitting "Enter" twice and you will have room to type. On the butchering of the stumps, I get a hint that you might not be cutting the back cut on the level but instead trying to angle the cut which you should not do. Keep it level and just above the wedge cut and you'll do fine. On the oak, sweet!
That oak was on a slope, with some uneven, non-level footing, thus the multiple wood wedges that can be seen. The face cut was a disaster. But, the back cut went well, with sufficient hinge for the whole thing to s l o w l y drop. As soon as I saw my cut opening, I backed off and watched. Thanks for the posting tips. Will give it try next time. Sent from my XT1030 using Tapatalk
