We have had a couple of fantastic weather days in central PA. I hope you got up in the trees again today.
Everyone has to find their own niche and know their limitation. Mine is with both feet on the ground. Yours seems to be anyplace you want to put them! I have a lot of respect for those skilled with tree removals who don't get hurt or damage property. Thanks for sharing the pictures of the tree removal. Really enjoy viewing them.
Today we skidded and loaded up the logs we kept, there were two 17 foot ash logs (gonna use them for new, tapered tipi poles), an 8' ash log and a standing dead (and bone dry) 17' elm.... The two back leaning trees that we used the bottle jack method on needed skidded up a steep bank. So we did that first. I wasn't going to take the dead elm, but it was bone dry and ready for the stove so I took it too.... We set a mini-skyline up with a choker strap and a snatchblock pulley, it worked like a dream and no harm to the tree.... Here we are loading the 18' logs onto the trailer using our rope/ramp method. The truck rolls the logs up the ramp and onto the trailer. Easy peasy..... Unloaded the logs at Tony's mill, we'll be cutting tapered poles out of them long ones this weekend.. And that big dead elm? Well as soon as I was done with lunch today, I bucked, split and stacked it all in the garage......it's ready for the stove.
Great to see them getting used for lumber. I'm all for firewood but a nice straight stick makes me want to mill.
